Mar 13, 2017 - You'll need either Xamarin or the new Visual Studio for Mac there, ON. If you install just the Core Visual Studio 2017 and MonoGame, you. I use a macBook Pro. I downloaded and compiled monogame for MacOs. I use Xamarin Studio and i am trying to find where the monogames templates are to install them.

Part 3 – Content Pipeline (How we get images and sound effects into the game) In, we created a new MonoGame project, and looked at what was created for us to start with. Now let’s take a look at the MonoGame Content Pipeline, and why we need it for our game. Although we could load image and sound files directly from the file system in MonoGame, that’s not the best way to do it.

The content pipeline provides several advantages: • Converts files to a format that MonoGame can use at run-time. For example, MonoGame can’t process “.wav” sound files at run-time, so we can use the Pipeline tool to convert the file to the “.xnb” format that MonoGame knows how to use.

• The pipeline tool will reformat the files into a format appropriate for the target platform. Remember, even though this tutorial is targeting Windows, you can also use MonoGame to target iOS, Android, Mac OS, and Linux. • The pipeline tool will also strip out information from the file that isn’t needed by the run-time. This reduces the file size on disk, and can reduce load time. The only downside is that it makes developing just a bit more complicated, because we must process the files by the pipeline tool before we can use them in our program. But, after you’ve done it a few times, you will barely notice the extra steps. We’ll need a few image and sound files for the project, that you can download at.

Image Files • Ball.png (our game ball) • Brick.png (image of the bricks on our gameboard) • Paddle.png (the game paddle used to hit the ball) • Pixel.png (a file with a single white pixel. We’ll use this for drawing shapes.

We’ll talk about this later) Sound Files • StartSound.wav (played when we serve a new ball) • WallBounceSound.wav (played when the ball bounces off a wall) • BrickSound.wav (played when a brick is hit and destroyed) • MissSound.wav (played when the player misses the ball and it falls out of play) • PaddleBounceSound.wav (played when the ball bounces off of the paddle) All the image files are public domain. I’ve included the attribution links for the sound files at the end of this document. I edited some of the files to clip portions that weren’t needed for the game. If you are interested, the program I used is an open source program called. You should extract the downloaded “BricksAssets.zip” file and copy all of the extracted image and sound files to your project “Content” folder: C: Users YourUserFolder Documents Visual Studio 2017 Projects Bricks Bricks Content. Note: You need to replace “YourUserFolder” with the name that Windows has assigned to the current user.

For example, on my PC, my documents are under a folder called “dvist” that is formed by my first initial and 4 characters of my last name. Earlier, we looked at the solution explorer to look at the files that were created when we selected the “MonoGame Windows Project” template. The file we’ll be working with now, is the “Content.mgcb” file: This is an XML file that the pipeline tool uses to store information about your project file assets.