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While reading some marketing material on a technical product (something to do with automotive ECU security), the company states a fact to which I question the validity. They state: "Research from numerous automotive companies has determined that delta technology is more efficient at reducing update file size than compression technology". Is this a generally accepted fact that...

I am creating a game in Roblox Studio which has many different tools that do different things and this is the structure I've decided on

Each tool...

I was willing to remove CP_Access flag whenever possible in my vertex/index buffers as it is claimed to be less gpu friendly but it remains that packing index buffers together requires map/unmap with apparetly nothing equivalent to streaming as we can do for vertex buffers. So I was wondering why SOSetTarget could not be used for Index buffers as it is basically buffers. At l...

The MSDN is really confusing about this, with all their different versions of XNA jumbled together for my google results. All I want to do is find out, in XNA 4.0, what antialiasing modes are supported by the display adapter. Supposedly, this involves calling GraphicsAdapter.CheckDeviceMultiSampleType(), but that function isn't defined. What should I be using in its place?

I needed to implement a slider using 3D objects instead of UI (at least, I think that was the best approach).

I finally got it working after a day of headaches figuring out the math behind it, but I'm pretty sure my implementation could be improved. Here is the result and the code I wrote.

I'd love to get your feedback on how you would have done it, or how I can...