Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed Errata

Chad Carter Posted: 2 May 2009 11:34 AM | Locked

Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed - Errata

Any Chapters not listed here do not have any known errors. The complete list of chapters can be found on the main Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed book information page.

If you find an error in the book, please create a new post to this forum.

Introduction

Page 2

Software Requirements

Chapter 1

Page 15

Installing XNA Game Studio

Chapter 3

Code Fix on CD

Chapter 3 was edited with the CTP version of XNA Game Studio 3.0. As a result the XNAPerformanceChecker.csproj file is incorrect. The result is that the assemblies it references cannot load successfully. This can be corrected by either following the steps here or by overwriting the current .csproj file with the updated one: XNAPerformanceChecker.csproj. Thanks to Pelham for pointing this out in the forums.

Pages 42,43

Benchmarking

In the code there are extra > values after the methods TransformVectorByReferenceAndOut() and TransformVectorByReferenceAndOutVectorAdd(). The > needs to be removed. Thanks to Myth for pointing this out in the forums.

Chapter 4

Page 57

Creating a Camera

"We then need to add a call to InitializeCamera in the beginning of our LoadGraphicsContent method." should be "We then need to add a call to InitializeCamera in the beginning of our LoadContent method." Thanks to alvin for pointing this out in the forums.

Page 75

Checking Performance

The assignment of the vertexBuffer should be the following code:

vertexBuffer = new VertexBuffer(graphics.GraphicsDevice,
    VertexPositionNormalTexture.SizeInBytes * vertices.Length,
    BufferUsage.WriteOnly);

The code listed in the book was not correctly changed from the previous edition. Thanks to Myth for pointing this out in the forums.

Chapter 7

Code Fix on CD

Sound Demo

Chapter 9

Code Fix on CD

Sort Order Demo and Progress Bar Demo

With the change from XNA Game Studio 1.0 Refresh to XNA Game Studio 3.0, Microsoft included a enumeration type for buttons. In the original book we created our own type InputHandler.ButtonType. The built in enum type is simply Buttons. In the Game1.cs files for both the Sort Order Demo and the Progress Bar demo both reference the custom enum type which does not exist in the XELibrary code. The code should reference Buttons instead of InputHandler.ButtonType.

Download Chapter9Fix.zip and extract to the Chapter9 folder. It will overwrite the Game1.cs files in the SortOrderDemo and ProgressBarDemo folders.

Alternatively, you can search and replace (Case Sensative) InputHandler.ButtonType. with Buttons. in the Game1.cs files in both the SortOrderDemo and the ProgressBarDemo solutions.

Pages 179,180,187

Practical Sprite Batches

All instances of code where InputHandler.ButtonType. is found, it should be replaced with Buttons.

Page 178 - 183

Practical Sprite Batches

One Figure image was in the incorrect position. This caused Figures 9.3 to 9.6 to not have the correct images.

Figure 9.3 shapes.png

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Figure 9.4 SpriteSortMode.Deferred does not sort the images drawn and displays them in the order they were drawn in the code.

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Figure 9.5 SpriteSortMode.BackToFront sorts images based on the layer depth values, with the highest number being farthest from the screen.

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Figure 9.6 SpriteSortMode.FrontToBack sorts the images based on the layer depth values, with the lowest number being farthest from the screen.