MonoGame Port

[xezno]

Ok, so I am the only Linux user here, and I have been trying to get PD working in Wine. It fails and doesnt start at all, so we need a MonoGame port. Fortunately I've got the Geany IDE and Eclipse and I can compile MonoGame pretty quickly, but is it necessary or have you guys already done it? Thanks.

 

[ddfczm]

Unfortunately having the game run in Mono will be a lot more difficult than just compiling it. MonoGame has a lot of subtle differences to XNA. All the shaders would need to be rewritten, lots of textures wont work etc bla bla.

First priority is to get a complete game in Windows.

 

[Afr0]

ddfczm is partly right. (Unfortunately) I started doing this project in XNA 3.1. MonoGame is a port (or reimplementation, technically) of XNA 4.0. That's where the differences stem from.
There's an XNA 4.0 branch on Github, where I've ported everything so that it compiles. It is out of date though, so you'd need to take the newest client version, compile it with XNA 4.0 and fix all the errors.
There are issues though, graphics bugs - which is why I didn't continue, IIRC. I can't remember what bugs there were though.
Main thing you need to know is XNA 4.0 doesn't support Targa image files natively, so you need TargaLib to load the files and convert them to PNG.