Comments on: XNA Framework GameEngine Development. (Part 4, ShaderManager:GameComponent)

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:36:49 +0000

Note:

If you are getting FileNotFoundExceptions for the Console application and are running VS on a 64-bit OS, make sure you go to the build properties (right click on solution > properties > build) and change the target platform to x86.

You should no longer have the issue.

By: roecode

roecode — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:51:23 +0000

The shader manager does not compile shaders. Rather it is a “container” that groups logical objects together… in this case shaders. The shader itself is in fact HLSL, but the content pipeline in XNA is used to actually load and compile the shader.

This is actually the 4th installment in the series of many many articles on creating a game engine. The key concepts here are not loading and compiling shaders. Rather the focus here is to maintain a logical group of shaders that will be used by other “drawable” objects in the engine.

By: Jeremie

Jeremie — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:48:46 +0000

I’m just wondering was is exactly is the use of this shader manager ? Does it allows us to compile hlsl in runtime ?

I didn’t follows any of this tutorial but I think I would be able to learn fews tricks. Keep going

cheers

By: roecode

roecode — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:25:37 +0000

Just wanted to be able to use the BaseEffect as an IRoeShader.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:29:22 +0000

baseEffect has a property where it returns itself, but as an Effect class, but its not of Effect type. What am I missing?

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:26:49 +0000

The generator miss a condition that is the array of a parameters. i.e. float a[8] = {1.2f, 2.0f, …..};
bool b[6] = {true, false, …..}

By: Xsnip3rX

Xsnip3rX — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:35:17 +0000

Sorry, i was a bit frustrated, i just got off of a hard day of work and i tried an hour or so of following 2 of your tutorials but no luck, is there any chance you can help me Via MSN?

By: roecode

roecode — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:43:33 +0000

Wow, you certainly sound frustrated. Without a doubt this tutorial series is not for beginners to XNA, nor is it for beginners to development in general. Actually, it isn’t even for people interested in game development.

I think I did make this clear in the first tutorial. Rather, my goal here is to outline basic, repeatable concepts for making a workable game engine. I do not want, nor do I expect every single line of code to be copied from this series to make a working engine.

You can definitely use this as a helper for developing your own engine, but copying code is a bad way to make an engine. You might want to look for a prebuilt engine, there are plenty available.

Later in this series I started posting links to code and working examples. Getting to this step is very good, but not a whole lot can be seen at this point in the engine.

By: Xsnip3rX

Xsnip3rX — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:32:31 +0000

I’ve tried to follow all of your tutorials step by step and so far, nothing, i can’t make anything new cause you won’t explain exactly what file needs to be made, which folder it goes into, not to mention you even forgot the whole part where you MADE a managers folder, this “Tutorial” is not for beginners to XNA!

By: samairu

samairu — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:10:27 +0000

Hi, roecode, could you tell what is this new material ? and why not any longer using this one ? is a great site, I hope I can learn a lot from here.