I’ve been working on a Windows Phone 7 port of Guardian and finally have something to show for it. All of the systems are in place now, just need to do a lot of tuning and game play tweaking. Of course, at this point I have no idea how it’s going to perform on an actual phone, but it should do fairly well. Hopefully there won’t be too much optimization required after I get my hands on some hardware. I…
By default (at least on my computer, running Windows 7), CLR Profiler 2 won’t work with new XNA apps since they utilize the new .NET framework. It looks like it’s working when you try it, but when it shows the final statistics window it’s empty. Fortunately, it’s possible to enable support using the new profiler compatibility settings functionality, which for this case involves simply setting the COMPLUS_ProfAPI_ProfilerCompatibilitySetting environment variable before running CLR Profiler.
I’ve had a couple of questions about what changes are needed to get the texture modification tutorial to work in XNA 3.1. So, here’s a 3.1 version of the project, and a quick overview of the major things that need to change. You need to create the depth/stencil buffer yourself, set it on the GraphicsDevice when setting the render target, and restore the previous buffer when you’re done. RenderTarget2D can’t be used directly as a texture, you must call RenderTarget2D.GetTexture…