Error in TypeReader

Error in TypeReader

iorus 25 Apr 2012 15:00

Well I'm still looking for the most basic libraries and examples that could be helpful for 3d game development,
I found an example for Height Map Collisions it seems very easy to implement ,but after importing the project as a reference (and adding a reference to the content manager pipeline of the project which I want to implement) and triying to implement in another XNA project all compilation goes right ,but starting the program I got this error

Error loading "terrain". Cannot find ContentTypeReader HeighGameContent,HeightMapInfoReader, HeighGameContent, Version=1 .0 .0 .0, Culture=neutral.

"terrain" is loaded in the example code as a texture but is procesed as a Model, any way I'm posting in C# general programming forum because I've been reading that this error is an assembly Issue please any help XD…

My Fail Test
www[dot]mediafire[dot]com/?6yzx7u9ph0ihau8

Last edited on 25 Apr 2012 15:01 by iorus Show more

Re: Error in TypeReader

rbwhitaker 25 Apr 2012 15:52

So the question is, what assembly is your content type reader in? Your main game is going to need to have a reference to whatever project/assembly/DLL that happens to be.

If it is in the same project as the bulk of your custom content pipeline extension, you're going to run into trouble. The bulk of the extension depends on parts of the XNA framework that aren't available in the XNA redistributable, meaning once you get that out on the Xbox, or a computer that doesn't have XNA Game Studio installed, your game won't work. Whenever you work with content pipeline extensions, always, always check to make sure your game still works on a computer that doesn't have XNA Game Studio or Visual Studio/Visual C# Express installed on it, just to be safe.

I wasn't able to download your project right now (I'll see if I can try again later—the problem is on my end not yours) but I get the feeling that all of your content pipeline stuff is in one single project/assembly/DLL, right?

The appropriate solution is to put the content type reader, along with any "building blocks" type code in it's own project that both the content pipeline extension and your main game projects can reference. (By "building blocks", I mean things like a HeightMap class or whatever, that your content pipeline extension will use, as well as your main game project.)

Is this your own pipeline extension? Or do you have the source code so you can make those changes?

It might be worth running through my content pipeline tutorial, especially the stuff in part 2. I apologize though, the names of the projects that I use in that tutorial can be… kind of confusing. I meant to go back and make it clearer, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.