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Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Fbx File Format ?
is the fbx file format closed format or do microsoft provide doc on the file format in the xna framework link to article that i have read http://www.3d-test.com/interviews/collada_1.htm why i am asking that is that we can adopt our own mesh format to xna framework example: our mesh format onlye ned one matrix for doing mesh animations the is bone and joint in our mesh cunstructor but when you save the final format out to xml there is one set of vertex data and one set of faces data and the magic one matrix for bone and joint and animations of keyframe per frame so if you have a mesh animation that runs 700 frame total you have to store one set of vertex and faces and 700 deffecnt matrix in a array the ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista Error message - "The memory could not be read" - Help please!
Hello all I'm new here, so I'm not sure whether I'm posting this in the right forum. I have just bought a Toshiba laptop today. I have been playing around with it (always had Windows XP, so Vista is brand new to me!) and everything had been fine till a few minutes ago. I uninstalled Norton (which was already on there) and installed McAfee instead. Installation was okay etc. So I restarted the machine and after the 'welcome' screen (before you arrive at desktop), a pop up box appeared saying something along the lines of "Instruction at 0xc4e9b825 referenced memory at 0xc4e9b825. The memory could not be read". You close that pop-up box and another one appears saying explorer.exe - application error... and that the machine ...Show All
Visual Studio Post VS SP1 problems!
Before SP1 I had terrible editor lag every few seconds taht i attributed to Intellisense... I got rid of intellisense by using the ncb read-only trick so VS can't write to it and turns off IS... after installing SP1 I was hoping this was fixed... but after reenabling IS the problem is still there... every few seconds while typing, VS becomes unresponsive... then picks back up... rediculous and it makes it almoost unusable. It is project specific... i.e. some projects have the problem, others do not. I have tried deleting and letting VS rebuild teh ncb with no success. Anyone else still have this probem Also, after installing SP1 I have two resource problems: 1) A define in my .rc file does not seem to be taking effect in the resource ...Show All
SQL Server Check the finish time of data driven subscription using Sql
How can I check using sql that a data driven subscription has run and the time it had finished Thanks Elias Try this: select c . name , el . TimeStart , el . TimeEnd , el . TimeDataRetrieval , el . TimeProcessing , el . TimeRendering , s . Description from ReportServer . dbo . executionlog el inner join ReportServer . dbo . catalog c on el . reportid = c . itemid inner join ReportServer . dbo . subscriptions s on c . itemid = s . report_oid where s . description = 'SubscriptionDescription' order by el . timestart desc If there is an entry in the executionlog table, that means it completed. Jarret ...Show All
Visual C# Caret Position SelectionStart, Simple?
This should be simple... I have a maskedtextbox on a form, and I've added an OnEnter event which I want to set the caret position to zero (it defaults to the end). From what I've read you should use the SelectionStart Property to do this, but I can't get it to work. In the debugger it seems to reflect the correct selectionStart position but even though I set the value the caret doesn't get repositioned. I've also tried setting the selection length to various numbers along with the selectionStart... Any help would be greatly appreciated. Problem seems to be when you add a mask. If there is no mask, the caret gets put back to 0, if there is a mask, then the caret stays at the end. Anyone know how to work around this &n ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Gamestate tutorial?
Hi all! I am looking for a GameState tutorial for XNA. I searched this forum and found a nice tutorial on the subject. ( http://www.kalme.de/index.php option=com_content&task=category§ionid=4&id=14&Itemid=26 ) Except that it's not using the XNA framework so there is alot of stuff in the tutorial that is already taken care of in XNA. If there is a tutorial about how to handle gamestates in XNA it would save me alot of time figureing it out by myself from the tutorial above. I am glad for all the advice I can get. Happy coding WOW. Like just hours ago I managed to wrap up a working GameStateManager with ScreenState classes inherits from a general base class and implements an IGameState i ...Show All
SQL Server Data Flow Task empty after check in
On my office PC I have a strange problem with Data Flow Tasks. When I check-in a package into Source Control (Team Foundation) I usually have some empty Data Flow Tasks in the packages...even if I haven't changed that Flow Task. This is really frustrating cause when running the package all goes well, but after a whil you notice that some tables are empty. Does anyone know what the problem is Same here. It happens to me periodically. I haven't yet bothered to take a look at the package XML to try and work out what the problem is. note to self - do that next time. I can't belive that it just removes components from the DFT. I find it easier to believe that it loses the binding between them. Point i ...Show All
Visual C# Displaying multiple search engine results on a single web browser
Hello, my questtion is,i have a textbox,a button and the web browser control on my form,now whatever i want to search on the internet,i will write the query in the textbox and on the button click i want to retrieve the results from three different search engines(e.g google,msn,yahoo etc) but all the results must be displayed on that same web browser.What should i do The following code is used to retrieve the search results from google private void button1_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { System. Object nullObject = 0; string str = "" ; System. Object nullObjStr = str; Cursor .Current = Cursors .WaitCursor; axWebBrowser1.Navigate( "http://www.google.com.pk/search hl=en&q=" + ...Show All
Visual C# what s a partial class pls?
Thanks. hi, More about partial class: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wa80x488(vs.80).aspx ...Show All
SQL Server Design/load question
Hi. I am redesigning a database to be more normalized. There are 4 columns that appear in many of the tables that I plan to add to a new table. Here is what the database looks like now: table1 uniquecolumn1 uniquecolumn2 uniquecolumn3 samecolumn1 samecolumn2 samecolumn3 samecolumn4 uniquecolumn4 etc. table2 uniquecolumn1 uniquecolumn2 uniquecolumn3 samecolumn1 samecolumn2 samecolumn3 samecolumn4 uniquecolumn4 etc. table3 uniquecolumn1 uniquecolumn2 uniquecolumn3 samecolumn1 samecolumn2 samecolumn3 samecolumn4 uniquecolumn4 etc. If I add a 4th table with the columns that are the same in each of the tables, I'd have this: table1 uniquecolumn1 uniquecolumn2 uniquecolumn3 uniq ...Show All
SQL Server How to align the text in justify format with SQL Server Reporting Services?
How to align the text in justify format In SQL server Reporting Services Is there any code to do so Hi, I suppose that with justify you mean "fit to entire line" format. This is not available in reporting services. There is only Left, Center and Right. Greetz, Geert Geert Verhoeven Consultant @ Ausy Belgium My Personal Blog ...Show All
Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) "Trust not granted" message for Everything permission set
Hello, My WPF web browser application needs some additional permissions for execution (some of security and reflection permissions). I added them on the Security page of project in Visual Studio. I published my application on IIS web server on my computer. I had to modify Runtime Security Policy in order to execute my application. I created a custom permission set on basis of the LocalIntranet permission set and added required additional permissions there. I set my custom permission set for the LocalIntranet zone and my application began to work after that. But when I set the Everything permission set, "Trust not granted" message is shown. Could you explain me why it happens Everything permission set includes more p ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. IT'S ALIVE!!! But now what?
Ok after several hours of coding i have my mesh loaded into the screen and it rotates and its cool right Now I realize how do I move my mesh to postitions in the given matrices I am not sure cause the mesh itself doesn't seem to have any coordinates to alter to get it to move. Ok example of my code: if FAILED(D3DXLoadMeshFromX( "ship.x" , D3DXMESH_SYSTEMMEM, pDevice, NULL, &mymodel, NULL, &dnumofMats, &oglla)) { MessageBox(hWnd, "D3DXLoadMeshFromX" , "Failed to Load" , MB_OK); } So I have loaded my mesh into my program and I have it all rendered. but how do I alter where my mesh is positioned in the given world space Do I completely rotate the entire world around my obje ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Microsoft Project Plan (.mpp file) in Project Portal always locked
Hi, Was wondering if anyone has seen this problem and possibly have a workaround for it. If we create a project plan using Microsoft Project 2003 (or 2007), publish the plan to the team server and then save the .mpp into a document list in the Project Portal. When attempting to edit the file project always displays the error "The file is locked by another user", read-only, notify, etc.. However the other user is me! Sometimes the error can be avoided by deleting Temporary Internet Files but not always. Curiously this only affects .mpp files that have been associated with a team project and are stored in the project portal. Storing them on the file system, or storing unbound plans in the portal works just fine. ...Show All
SQL Server Is SQL Server supported in a VMWare environment
I have looked all over the MS site and can find very little information regarding SQL Server's support for the VMWare environment. Based on other information that I have obtained on other forums and web-site it looks like it is not supported by Microsoft, but I would like the company line if possible. Does any one know for sure and can point me to a URL Thanks. Not quite sure if this was answered. But no change. Here is the link to MS stand: http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/897615 It is in complete competition with their product Virtual Server 2003/2005 ...Show All