hopefully we can just use .net standard 2.0 in the future, if not now
for errors throw an InvalidContentException or a PipelineException. That's the recommended way.
if you throw another type of exception it gets wrapped and reported as 'Unexpected Error in Importer/Processsor' and the original error message gets lost/obscured.
if you throw another type of exception it gets wrapped and reported as 'Unexpected Error in Importer/Processsor' and the original error message gets lost/obscured.
is it possible to debug your importer by invoking the MGCB directly? say for example set MGCB as 'start external program' in debug properties with the .mgcb file as a parameter...
is there a good way to learn shader programming? My goal is to migrate some old XNA3.1 shaders for MonoGame. I don't know what the old ones do exactly, I don't know the shader language, but I'd like to keep functionality as close as possible to the original one. Is there some kind of reference on how a shader looks like and works (ideally for the old XNA shaders AND for current monogame pipeline)?
The biggest issue with updating old 3.1 shaders is keeping backwards compatibility. Easiest wat is to have an #IF on the shader version support and flipping to SM4.
However, it's not a magic bullet and sometimes doesn't work with features that are deprecated sadly.
However, it's not a magic bullet and sometimes doesn't work with features that are deprecated sadly.
@SimonDarksideJ what backwards compatibility are you talking about? I don't need to be compatible to the original platforms or similar. I try to re-implement (as just migrating is a worthless-to-go rabbit hole) the game on the current framework, just to get it running again.
Hi guys, if I wanted to use the latest development build in an existing project, just running the installer from http://teamcity.monogame.net/repository/download/MonoGame_PackagingWindows/latest.lastSuccessful/MonoGameSetup.exe?guest=1 should be sufficient, right?
Hi. I try to get the simplest possible version of a shader to work but keep getting "error X3003: redefinition of VertexShaderOuptut" for a struct I define, following this tutorial: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/435dkp/how_to_add_pixel_shaders_to_monogame/ (without calculating anything, skipping World and View and just returning input except normal)
@harry-cpp are there instructions somewhere on setting up and using the nugets instead of the installer? I've not had any luck getting my pipeline content to compile. Is there a specific version of .net core or .net standard that we should be targeting? Also, where do the nuget templates come up? I also could not get the monogame core nuget to install (noth the DX or GL version). It also seems out of date.
The specific issues are I can't compile any pipeline content that require Assimp. The error I get is:
2>SkyBoxCube.fbx : error : Importer 'FbxImporter' had unexpected failure!
2>Assimp.AssimpException: Error loading unmanaged library from path: Assimp64.dll, see inner exception for details.
2>The specified module could not be found. (0x8007007E)
2> ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The specified module could not be found. (0x8007007E)
Separately, I can't seem to compile any shaders that reference or include other files e.g.
2>/DefaultShader.fx
2>EXEC : error : C:\Users\default\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp8C31.tmp(1,0): File not found: Lighting.fx in .(MonoGame.Effect.Preprocessor+MGFile) C:\Users\default\AppData\Local\Temp
2>Failed to parse 'C:\Users\default\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp8C31.tmp'!
dunno about the first issue
report it on github
Hi. Is it possible to have dependencies between Assets in the content pipeline (it was possible on Xna3.1)? My ContentProcessor writes ExternalReference<TextureContent> to the tag of ModelContent objects, but the contentPipeline fails to compile the model as "TextureImporter failed to load", on the other hand, the same texture as it's own asset compiles fine.
netcoreapp3.1 would be ideal though
wait... I might have found the remaining issue, I'll try further...
no... don't get it right, yet...
Let me ask the other way around: What to use under the following conditions: I need to use a library that targets netcoreapp3.1 and netstandard2.1; I need a content project (preferably but not necessarily using the Pipeline UI tool) with custom ContentProcessors and ContentImporters.
Let me ask the other way around: What to use under the following conditions: I need to use a library that targets netcoreapp3.1 and netstandard2.1; I need a content project (preferably but not necessarily using the Pipeline UI tool) with custom ContentProcessors and ContentImporters.
oh: and using DirectX under Windows for now.
I have a MG 3.7.1 game developed in VS for Windows targeting iOS. I use the VS "Pair to Mac" feature to get the iPhone simulator running on Windows. My Mac is a mac-in-cloud Mac, not sure if that matters.
When I choose soln config = Debug, platform = iPhoneSimulator, I can build and run game on iPhoneSimilator in Windows. All good, all works.
When I choose soln config = Release, platform = iPhone I get an error at build time, saying "Failed to resolve assembly: 'Lidgren.Network". If I unpair my Mac it builds fine, so I suspect something is missing on the Mac. The Mac has VS and MG 3.7.1 installed.
Can anyone help?
I installed the up to date Pipeline tool as a dotnet global too. It loads the content project (without any referenced dll). Whenever I try to add a reference to my compile pipeline project (containing the importers) it crashes, showing the following stack trace on restart: https://gist.github.com/jongleur1983/dff921fe31b44f8a9025a4a265ef7839