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February 2007 - Posts

Joel Martinez on sound and video

As I was just talking about XACT, it seems appropriate to link to Joel's post about using XACT with XNA . He's been busy recently, also posting a very cool looking system for playing videos in XNA .

Two common XACT gotchas

Sounds are good. I particularly like the sound of Sibelius's later symphonies, although Stravinsky can be pretty incredible at times too. If the sounds in your game are not good, make sure you are calling AudioEngine.Update at regular intervals. Your

XNA rendertarget semantics

The way rendertargets work in XNA is somewhat different to regular DirectX, and although we've already discussed most of the details in various forum threads, I recently noticed there doesn't seem to be any one place that explains everything all together
 
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