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Animating single bones in a Blender 3D model with XNA

24 Jul 2011 by Alan Boldock

Many available demonstrations and tutorials demonstrate how to play an animation generated in a 3D application. This tutorial demonstrates how to manipulate a 3D model using only the code to find and manipulate Bones within a simple 3D model generated in Blender.

Be Careful of Those SPECIAL Names in Unity

4 Feb 2016 by Simon Jackson

Be careful of those SPECIAL names in Unity

BlendedTexture2D

25 Mar 2013 by Daniel M. Kane

A RenderTarget2D-derived class to blend textures at runtime that internally deals with some common headaches.

Building apps & games for Xbox One using UWP – Build once and target many

14 Nov 2016 by Simon Jackson

For my sins, I was asked back to FutureDecoded again this year to give a talk on the Microsoft UWP platform, specifically about bringing games to the XboxOne using UWP. By all accounts the session went well (especially as there was standing room only by the time the …

C++ File pointer!

2 Apr 2010 by Rob52

I've been playing around with files in C++, i've been reading an XBE (xbox exectuable) into a struct.I've followed the structure here, which is working pretty well but i'm stuck on the pointer.http://www.xboxhackz.com/downloads/xbe.pdfHow do i declare that in a struct?My code so...

C++ File pointer!

31 Mar 2010 by Richard Andrew x64

What does "stuck on the pointer" mean?Nobody is going to look at that pdf file, or go to an external link to look at your code. Put the relevant information into your question, and you'll have a better chance of getting an answer.

C++ File pointer!

2 Apr 2010 by Sauro Viti

When dealing with executable image files, the term pointer stay for offset from the beginning of the file (note that a value equal to zero is used if the correspondant item is not present inside the image file).

C++ File pointer!

2 Apr 2010 by Alain Rist

Change to int main(){ XBE info = {0}; // ... cout

Creating a 3D Space Invaders Game From Scratch in XNA

21 Sep 2008 by Judah Gabriel Himango

A series of articles meant to build a 3D space invaders game from the ground up using Microsoft's XNA technology.

Driving Simulation in XNA

14 Sep 2008 by AmitDey

A Tutorial to develop a driving simulator using XNA Game Studio 2.0

Fighter Space Ship Game

23 Oct 2012 by sandeepkumar.sgnr

As the name suggests, you will be driving a space ship in galaxy and protecting yourself from meteors. Now to show ultrabook capability with the game I will be using touch and accelerometer.

Floor Detection using Kinect

27 Jan 2019 by Vangos

Floor Detection using Kinect

Getting Started With Intel Realsense 3D Technology

31 Jul 2015 by Pooja Baraskar

This Article will help you in Getting Started with Intel Realsense 3D Technology

Home Automation with Microsoft Kinect Point Cloud and Speech Recognition

10 Jan 2015 by Dan Thyer

Use a Microsoft Kinect to control the home automation in the house. Lights can be turned on an off from speech recognition or from pointing at them and waving your other hand one way to turn on and the other way to turn off.

Home Automation with Netduino and Kinect

3 Jan 2015 by Dan Thyer

Remote control a squirt gun, open the garage, and water the garden all through .net

Hosting XNA in a Window

28 Jul 2007 by Marc Clifton

My journey to unravel and discover a solution for hosting XNA in a WinForm UserControl

How can I resolve the login issues that I am getting with my xbox 360?

24 Feb 2017 by OriginalGriff

This is not a suitable question for this site: this is for the development of software, not a "how to use your games console" site.I'd suggest you try this on one of these sites: xbox360 forums - Google Search[^] And BTW: the XBox 360 is not the "best video game console" - it was a poorly...

How to find angle between two joints in kinect

2 Apr 2012 by ravithejag

I am writing a program that requires an angle between the 2 hand joints .Please help me in writing this code

How to find angle between two joints in kinect

17 Apr 2012 by Deepak_Sharma_

Hi,Read reply marked as "Answered" in the following link:http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/kinectsdknuiapi/thread/8516bab7-c28b-4834-82c9-b3ef911cd1f7[^]Useful link for Kinect:http://raychambers.wordpress.com/tutorials/[^]

How to perform fading transitions on Textures in XNA 4.0 using Interpolation Timers

7 Jul 2012 by CJ Kent

Create an Interpolating Timer and use it to fade textures in and out in XNA 4.0

How to port a xbox 360 game to pc "need some advice thanks"

11 Apr 2018 by Member 13755707

Hey, I need some advice I am doing a personal test to see what I can do with my programming skills and I need to know how one would port a xbox 360 game to windows pc. I have extracted the game data from one of the games from the disk but I need to know how to use that data to run the game on...

How to port a xbox 360 game to pc "need some advice thanks"

11 Apr 2018 by OriginalGriff

You will not get any help here. Quote: I have extracted the game data from one of the games from the disk This is in direct violation of the licensing agreement between yourself and the company that produced the game, and is thus malicious activity. Trying to "port the game to Windows" would be...

Is there any standard gestures for kinect?

28 Mar 2012 by ravithejag

hi,I want to know that is there any standards for defining gestures using Kinect for windows SDK

Is there any standard gestures for kinect?

23 Mar 2012 by Praveen Kullu

Currently there are few gestures available in the SDKs. Some of them are Wave gesture, Swipe gesture, Hands Up gesture. But there is no limit to the amount of gestures that you can add to your Kinect project. But creating too many gestures will add to the complexity as for every small fraction...

Journey of Windows 8 Game (SkyWar) for Intel App Up Using MonoGame Framework

8 Jan 2013 by sandeepkumar.sgnr

Journey of Windows 8 game SkyWar for Intel App Up competition

Journey of Windows 8 game (SkyWar) for Intel App Up using MonoGame Framework

8 Jan 2013 by sandeepkumar.sgnr

This article is all about my experience of developing a SkyWar game for CodeProject’s Intel AppUp competition.

Kinect for windows and Kinect for xbox

3 Oct 2012 by Pankaj Deharia

I had Application developed for "kinect for window". using kinect SDK and WPFWill this application works with Xbox?

Kinect for windows and Kinect for xbox

3 Oct 2012 by fjdiewornncalwe

You may find your answer here[^].

Kinect hand wave gesture

28 Mar 2012 by ravithejag

I'm doing a kinect Application using Kinect SDK.The Result I want that it has to able to identify the hand waving for 5sec. Do something if it doesAnyone knows how to do so? I'm doing in a WPF application.Would like to have some example. I'm rather new to Kinect.Thanks in advance for...

WPF

Kinect hand wave gesture

28 Mar 2012 by Wes Aday

Did you bother looking at the examples in the SDK like you were directed to the last time you asked this?

WPF

Kinect hand wave gesture

28 Mar 2012 by Nelek

I am checking the conditon first(skeleton.Joints[JointID.HandRight].Position.Y (skeleton.Joints[JointID.ElbowRight].Position.Y ) && skeleton.Joints[JointID.HandRight].Position.Y >...

WPF

Kinect is Dead! Now What?

27 Jan 2019 by Vangos

Kinect is dead! Now what?

Kinect Joint Rotation – The Definitive Guide

27 Jan 2019 by Vangos

How to measure the orientation of a joint around each axis (X, Y, Z)

Kinect v2 Point Cloud Scanner and Viewer

3 Apr 2017 by Edgar Maass

Display a Point Cloud grabbed by the Microsoft Kinect v2 in a OpenGL control

Learning XNA 2D Engine IceCream With 1945 Demo Project

8 Aug 2012 by Tyler Forsythe

IceCream1945 is a demonstration of XNA and the IceCream 2D library in a 2D top-down scrolling shooter similar to 1942 for the NES.

MarbleMaze

31 Jul 2013 by Ayush001

Traditional game which becomes more interetsing.

Multithreaded Kinect Stream Saver Application

12 Oct 2013 by Elham Dolatabadi

The application allows users to record and store Kinect streams at 30 frames per second to a folder.

Non Deadlocking Read/Write Locker and Thread-Safe Collections

6 Oct 2010 by Tamus

A ReaderWriterLock that cannot deadlock, and thread-safe example collections

Point cloud alignment: ICP methods compared

15 Aug 2016 by Edgar Maass

Different methods to align (aka stich, register) point clouds via the ICP (Iterative Closest Point) method

Recovering from Loss of Skeletal Tracking

17 May 2012 by ravithejag

I am writing an application such that when the kinect sensor sense any skeleton the application should be ready to use.If skeleton moves away from the view of sensor the application should be stopped for particular time.if it detects any skeleton the application will start from the first...

Recovering from Loss of Skeletal Tracking

11 May 2014 by Hloni Matsoso

LOL, your question is all over the placeWhat do you mean by "application will start from the first programmatically"?What do you mean by "the application should be stopped"? But it sounds like you want to track state of your app. You can start with an enum (States) with 2 states,...

Resume the User’s Music after MediaPlay

8 Nov 2010 by dolhaig

How to Resume the User's music after we played a video or audio from our Silverlight/XNA WP7 Application.

Scaling the WPF window

1 Apr 2012 by ravithejag

In kinect the co ordinates of the main window starts from the centre(view area) of it.I want to scale this window to the specified size like 640*480.I am using C# for this.need your help regarding this plzz help.Thank you in advance.Note : I don't want to use any libraries for this.

Scaling the WPF window

2 Apr 2012 by Dean Oliver

MinWidth , Width, and MaxWidth are used to manage the range of widths that a window can have during its lifetime, and are configured as follows. xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" MinWidth="300" Width="400" MaxWidth="500">Window height is managed...

Start C/C++ Projects FAST

23 Apr 2009 by coder_of_salvation

Skip the 'starting from scratch' & Makefile bullsh*t, this will boost your creativity

The Bip Buffer - The Circular Buffer with a Twist

20 Jul 2020 by Simon Cooke

A bi-partite circular buffer for high performance buffering, where it comes from, and why you'd want to use it.

The Four Steps of Programming

18 Oct 2010 by John Paul Walker

How to think like a programmer

The simplest possible memory leak detector

18 Oct 2009 by Bachowny

C++ code showing how to track memory usage to avoid memory leaks

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 3

8 May 2015 by Vahe Karamian

The third article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

Unity link to xbox store show all apps from a publisher

19 Aug 2022 by Member 12961662

I am trying to link a button that user press to get them to all my apps in the Xbox store. I am able to do in windows but Xbox is not doing it, it just send the to home of the store. in windows I use: ms-windows-store://publisher/?name={Publisher...

UWP and development on Xbox One

6 May 2016 by Simon Jackson

A break down on the different modes of Xbox One development and clear direction of what is possible with the new UWP Retail unlock mode. Enable all devs to sideload and develop on the Xbox One UWP Platform

Virtual Cache

10 Oct 2014 by Gerardo Recinto

Virtualization of RAM & Disk for high-speed, low-footprint & scalable data caching

Windows Phone 8 Microphone

1 Apr 2013 by Tony Palumbo

Hi All,On Windows Phone 8, using the Microphone, is there a way to not record but to turn the microphone on and only record when there is noise. Kind of like not recording the dead space but only when someone starts speaking. I would guess start recording when it reaches a certain level or...

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XBOX 360 Controller Class

30 Dec 2014 by Daniel Lieberwirth (BrainInBlack)

A class representing the state of a connected XBOX 360 controller

Xbox 360 Controller Global Hook

23 Oct 2010 by Sean0323

Is there any way to make a global hook with the xbox360 controller?(e.x. I press Y while in Firefox and it pastes something.) I have tried every thing I could to my knowledge and nothings worked so far.I would appreciate some help.