Very interesting. The frame rate issue is very important. Learned a lot.

Amazing tutorial

One of the only people who actually explain what theyre doing instead of just... doing it

Great series! Since the development of these series takes some time, is there any chance you might put out a git repository containing good to know aspects of Monogame development? Looking forward to the next episode!

Hey man keep up with these tutorials! Very helpful stuff!

Part 4 would be nice. I hoe you get around to animations

This is super helpful to a newbie like me. Thanks so much

Is there any particular advantages/disadvantages of this method compared to setting the render target to the desired game resolution (ie very low for a pixel art game) then using the destination rectangle parameter when you are drawing to the screen where the rectangle is just the size of the screen?

Just what I’ve been looking for! Thank you

It's been 3 months, will there ever be 4th next part of this series?

just a little history lesson for ya: Early computers had Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) which "draw" the image with a cathode ray from the upper left corner to the lower right. To ease the interface between the graphics card memory and the CRT the memory was read from the beginning and the image was drawn from the top left (with the lowest memory address) to the lower right (with the highest memory address). this is why 0,0 is top left. :)

I really like the tutorials, can you answer this? In a concise way, why do we want to use render targeting? If we do not use it what problems will we run into down the road? I’m not understanding 100% why this works and what problem we are solving. Thanks so much.

Thank you! Very helpful

Great Tutorial !! Very understandable flow. KEEP IT UP

thanks so much Brent, it was insanely tedious trying to find criteria about the render targeting. I looked for almost 30 minutes trying to find anything, now to understand point sampling

To add transparency you can also just make the background Magenta (red 255, green 0, blue 255), you can just double click the file in Visual Studio and it should open a image editor.

If the pipeline tool doesn't open when double clicking, right click and use Open With... then in the list there should be mcgb-editor-wpf, he directed you to find it yourself but it should be in the list.

Just a note on reversing the Y on the arrow keys/DPad: I just realized the reason I wrote down that this was important is because vertical movement with the thumbstick is reversed. The way I coded this in the video is indeed correct. Second note: No, HashSets are not applicable to what I'm doing with the key/button mapping. Feel free to make any other suggestions for improvement though.

which color scheme are you using?

Couple of things I'd like to point out: - I think it makes little sense to check both keyboard and controller input at the same time for the same operations, if the user has pressed a button on the keyboard we don't need to check the for the same thing on the controller. - I believe you might've done the inverted vertical movement just because this is the way it's done in some other game engines (Unity)? It's not good that you didn't know *why* you inverted it, the viewer might do it the way you did it and then you both end up with code that you don't know the reasoning for lol - You're copying all those strings over and over every frame just to store input information. Using flags (i.e. integer bits) would be infinitely more efficient and not error prone, but even if you were to do it the string way, there's no reason not to use a HashSet for this. - The way you use the elapsed game time is incorrect, you're using TimeSpan#Milliseconds instead of TimeSpan#TotalMilliseconds. The former is just the milliseconds part of the TimeSpan where as the latter is the actual *total* time elapsed represented in milliseconds. I don't mean to sound rude about this - I think the title saying "For Experienced Programmers" isn't accurate. You're essentially writing simple if statements and explaining them in-depth for the major part of the video, which I'd imagine everyone familiar with C# or programming in general could follow on their own. Besides the actual movement math the rest is all `if` statements checking for user input, for which the video feels way too lengthy. I think you should rebrand the series to "For Beginners", it might attract more people and I believe the content in its current form is very much suited for that audience.

Thank you for making this

Hi Brent. Greetings from New Zealand. I Just watched these tutorials today and I have to say totally awesome job dude. I really hope you get the time to do more in the not too distant future (notifications turned on LOL).

Was super excited to see your content! All the other videos I saw were either super basic or were using horrific coding practices. I want you to continue as this has been the best series I have seen so far!

Thank you for this. Anyway to donate or sponsor you to get more videos?

where you hiding at dude lol

Your Monogame videos are awesome and have taught me a lot! I hope you decide to continue this series someday!

Thank you very much for this! Helpful.

This was very helpful and easy to follow. Thanks!

Hey! Will these tutorials ever return?

Great video Brent, thank you!

dang these videos are gold. It's a shame they ddin't get more attention.

This video was so helpful. I couldn't find a good explanation on using render targets for setting resolutions. I wish you had more tuts on monogame but I understand you gotta enjoy life so carry on ☺️

Good first couple of episodes! Please consider continuing the series! :-)

Thank you very much for his two videos. I learned a lot while I have already released a video game on steam. Many things super interesting. I hope you will continue.

Hello ! I know it's been a while since you started the series. I met you because I'm looking for information on the render target is the HLSL shader. I have two shaders that work very well. But I can not use both at the same time. it's a black screen. I was told that the render target allow to fix is problematic. I would like you to help me about it. I think you have not seen a lot because all this is the basics of monogamous. Many people are looking for more push information like me right now. I think if you explain things to us more complex you would have more visibility.

Thanks for this awesome video.

Shame these videos didn't take off. There's a bit of a dearth of information out there on how to do more advanced things in Monogame. I've been mucking around with Rendertarget2D and ScissorRectangle for the better part of a week and I'm still a bit confused on some of the finer details.

Hey, i made an map editor inside my game, and using the same scaling system as you, i got an offset between the windows cursor and in-game cursor. Do you know where is the issues ?

Hi Mate, This is actually awesome and super helpful to me. I know it's been a few months but hopefully this message gives you abit of motivation to put out another video! I'm using this method now, thanks!