Comments on: Using the Game State Management Sample

By: Tyson F. Gautreaux

Tyson F. Gautreaux — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:32:19 +0000

Thank you for this.

By: Jkooper

Jkooper — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:13:10 +0000

You’re right,now I have passed the object to the instance. Now it is possible to access the methodes and public variables.

thank you for your help

By: Jkooper

Jkooper — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:07:48 +0000

thank you very much for your reply. I’ll try it until next week.
If I don’t get it right I am already sorry for bothering you again in the future. Anyway, I’ll post again if, or if not, I succeed.

By: nazeeh

nazeeh — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:59:20 +0000

One way you can do that is to have something like a context object that you can pass to all screens. Then you can put parameters on it that you can read from any screen.

By: Jkooper

Jkooper — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:44:21 +0000

Hi,

I have integrated your example and it is working great. But of course I have a problem.
I have integrated my old written gamecode in the GameplayScreen Class and everything is working fine. Except one thing. I dont get the pause menu to “know” a public variable from the Gameplayscreen. How can I pass a Variable/Object from the gameplayScreen Object to the pausescreen?

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:59:00 +0000

Hello,
I have a project and I decided to merge it with this Gamestate sample to add some menu functionality to my game.
On my Gameplay screen I have a few things that should be Initialized first but I can’t initialize them by using the Initialize() method like I did before I merged the project with my game.
Do I have to add my initialization method somewhere else? maybe the gamescreen or screen manager?

Thanks

By: geniass

geniass — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:52:20 +0000

I have been using the game states example and the menu and loading parts work fine. However i have been adding in code for the gameplay from another project. After adding in everything and changing a few variables, it compiles and runs but it doesnt draw anything except the text? Any ideas??

By: Cyril

Cyril — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:12:58 +0000

Thanks a lot, that worked. I still couldn’t figure out the texture problem.
I use to save the state by calling
“spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteBlendMode.AlphaBlend, SpriteSortMode.Deferred, SaveStateMode.SaveState);” in my draw method but now it doesn’t work and whenever I enter the game or press ‘ESC’ to open the option menu, it messes up my textures and I got weird vertical lines instead of textures.
I tried to do the same thing with ScreenManager.SpriteBatch in my gameplayScreen but it didn’t work. any idea?

By: nazeeh

nazeeh — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:37:53 +0000

That’s an easy one actually. Set the DepthEnable to be true in the Device.RenderState. Check this out, this is the RenderState I am talking about: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.xna.framework.graphics.renderstate.depthbufferenable.aspx

Set that to true and you’ll be fine.

By: Cyril

Cyril — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:48:57 +0000

Hey Nazeeh,
Some dudes helped me and I solved my problem but there’s just one thing left.
When I enter my game (it’s a 3D game) I got a problem with the model and their drawings and 2D spriteBatches. All the textures are messed up and seems no depth test is done and I can see throu walls. I used to solve this problem in my old code by adding the following line to the draw method where I drew the spritebatches and save the states:
“priteBatch.Begin(SpriteBlendMode.AlphaBlend, SpriteSortMode.Deferred, SaveStateMode.SaveState);”
any idea how I can fix that one for this?
tnx