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XNA 4.0 How to change GraphicsDevice Default DepthStencilState Value

I want to change one of the deafult values of my GraphicsDevice to that: GraphicsDevice.DepthStencilState.DepthBufferEnable = true; But I know only to change it ...
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How to update "dynamicVertexBuffer" correctly with "setdata" on XNA?

I developed a small 3d games xna and uses a "DynamicVertexBuffer" and "DynamicIndexBuffer" to store and draw my vertices. Everything works fine, but my problem is the "Update" function where I update ...
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Get Specific depth values in Kinect (XNA)

I'm currently trying to make a hand / finger tracking with a kinect in XNA. For this, I need to be able to specify the depth range I want my program to render. I've looked about, and I cannot see how ...
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Using SpriteBatch with BasicEffects and layerDepth creates negative Z values?

Simply: Why don't all of these sprites draw? What do I need to do to make them draw? I'm trying to use SpriteBatch.Draw with the layerDepth parameter to help reduce overdrawn. However I can't get it ...
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Copying render target texture loses all depth [duplicate]

I have a render target RenderTargetScene that holds my scene texture with the scene's depth buffer ...
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Is it possible to read the frame to be output to the screen from GPU in XNA?

I want my XNA game to do its thing and at the end of the Draw() call read the the frame that is sent to the screen into memory (which in XNA would presumably be a Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Color[]). Is ...
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How to render depthmap image in 3d?

I'm new to game development and XNA. I have this depthmap image and I want to render it in 3D, how do I do it, any tutorial or blog post would be helpful.
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My transparent objects overwrite opaque objects depth and always draw on top?

I have set up an 'Order Independent Transparency' method for drawing my transparent objects. The algorithm can be simplified as follows: DrawOpaqueObjects() DrawTransparentObjects() Drawing the ...
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When does depth testing happen?

I'm working with 2D sprites - and I want to do 3D style depth testing with them. When writing a pixel shader for them, I get access to the semantic DEPTH0. Would writing to this value help? It seems ...
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Drawing a depth map properly

I want to render a depth map by importing it from a file, then creating an array of vertices and indices, and then displaying it using a basic shader (just apply the view and projection matrices on it ...
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