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XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP) now available

The first Community Technical Preview (CTP) of XNA Game Studio 3.0 is now available, giving you the ability to build games for the entire family of Zune media devices. This feature gives you access to the majority of the XNA framework APIs while retaining a seamless sense of integration with the Zune media experience. In addition, this release now requires either Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition and higher (C# language support must be installed), or Visual C# 2008 Express Edition. Follow the title link for more details.

GDC 2008 Presentations Now Available

The presentations from the GDC 2008 developers conference, including audio recordings where possible, are now available on the Presentations page.

Xbox LIVE Community Games announced

Xbox LIVE Community Games is a newly announced offering which pioneers upon the industry leading Xbox LIVE service to provide gamers an opportunity to share, peer review, download and play games created by the community, for the community. Starting with the beta launch of the service later this spring, members with an XNA Creators Club subscription will be able to submit their own game creations for self-publishing through to Xbox LIVE Marketplace via the http://creators.xna.com website.

XNA Game Studio Forum Forum RSS

Problems accessing structs in HLSL
Is there a certain order structure members must be in HLSL in order to be accessed properly by the XNA framework?   If I have:     &nbs... more
Getting rid of texture patterns on terrain.
Hi. I have a terrain system that uses multiple textures. But as many people have experienced, texture patterns often occur when one texture is spread... more
Windows Media Player Messing With Shader
I have a normal mapping shader that works with static and animated models.  Everything works fine if I run it right after I turn on my computer.&... more
Making New Models
I noticed that in many tutorials they use files that have a .x extension. How would I create my own .x model, and can you use .blend models?... more
giving new life to an old friend...(Mechcommander2)
Well, I wasn't sure how to go about this, but I come across the Mechcommander2 Source awhile ago, and I've been tinkering ever since. I've been also g... more

XNA Framework Content Pipeline Forum RSS

Tangent frame and normal vectors
Hi, I think I have some problems grasping this thing. When I calculate tangent frame in the content pipeline I get three vectors(normal, tangent and... more
Reading/Writing Dxt textures
Ok, here's my story.  So I'm working on the next version of Scurvy Media.  One of the things that I'd finally like to get in is the storage... more
Automatic load of .fx textures?
Hi! After some struggling I finally get a model to render with an effect. I have to use a function that i found at http://forums.xna.com/thread/4... more
[3.0 CTP] Strange error when using custom content processor
So I wanted to be able to load content semi-dynamically - that is, not while the game is running, but while the game is loading - so that users c... more
Content processor errors
I use XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP. When I try to import image files for use as texture in sprites, the IDE brings up error messages.The Content processor... more
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