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About X-Factor Development (FAQ's)
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About the X-Factor Development |
0. So, what is X-Factor
Development?
Briefly, X-Factor Development is a number of hobbiests who work on
developing fun and useful homebrew applicatons and games. X-Factor
Development has been around for just over a year now, and has continued to
grow gradually....giving more help and gaining support all the time.
We try to make our projects open source where we can, and create numberous
tutorials and informatin on the site to help others learn and progress with
xbox development.
All content on this website is copyright to XFactor Development.
1. Who is in the team?
The team is composed of newbies to pro's from a variety of walks around the
world all sharing information and helping each other. Again our aim is to
develop simple code tutorials, understanding, and software for the xbox. We
are always looking for new members and help an any areas - from 3D Models to
C++/C, Assembly, php etc.
2. Why is there no
advertisement, how do you manage to pay for hosting? Will the code/tutorials stay
free?
Yes, our information is free. The team out of the goodness of there
heart pay for the hoasting, so there is no need for advertisement. I'll still add a little
Donation link soon, in case anyone wants to support the project or help
the host to pay his internet connection bills, it would be greatly
appreciated.
3. What language does the
X-Factor Development Team use to write its code?
X-Factor Doesn't just use one programming language or stick with a fixed set
of rules....a number of the team members are fluent in C, Assembly, C++ etc,
and for the various projects use either Assemblers, Visual Studio, OpenXDK
etc. Most of the tutorials are writting in simple C to put accross
simpel understandings of how certain concepts work, for example
rendering shapes, gamepad etc. ( for
those who are still not sure, no, the xbox code wont' run under windows ).
4. Why should I bother?
Well I don't know how many people are out there who enjoy programming....but
as for myself and a number of the team members, we do this because we enjoy
it. It allows us to share our knowledge and create games and
applications for the xbox. If you've always wanted to program consoles
and would like to learn where always willing to help...
5. Fine, where's the source
code?
HERE
I try to keep that web-site almost up-to-date, updating each week or so. I
want to warn any potential source reader : X-Factor Source Code is still in beta,
the tutorials and demo's are hightly commented but still errors sometimes
slip in, and would appreciate any feedack. Good luck :)
6. How do I start?
Sure, you've got the source code examples on the web site etc...but you need
one other thing. Your xbox needs a mod-chip, so that you can run your
xbe's on your xbox. Instructions and documentation will be written
once the site gets updated more.
7. What are the
requirements for programming my xbox?
<1> Mod-Chip<2> OpenXDK or Microsfot XDK
<3> It is prefaired if you have evox on cdrw, so that you
can ftp your code across and run it from you xbox hard drive in a sub
folder....but again you could burn it to cd each time your run it, but it
would be very time consuming.
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Questions about code |
0. How can I put a project
or idea forward? When will it happen?
If you have an idea, and you want to have a go at implementing it or
realising it, or just think its a good idea, just come into the irq (#EFnet
- xfactor) channel and chat to us....all ideas and feedback are
welcome....or if you prefair, email us at
projectideas@xfactordev.net
There are several new features planned for X-Factor
Development:
-Weekly mini code projects/competitions...
-Team discussions
Some of the team is currently working on a new X-Factor Dev Game Engine in
there spare time, these will be done eventually
but I prefer not to give any remaining time estimation.
1. Who to contact:
If there are any problems with the website or have some feedback:
webmaster@xfactordev.net
or one of the senior members:
wishi@xfactordev.net
Ben_3D@xfactordev.net
chossy@xfactordev.net
2. What past projects have
been done?
We've worked on numbers projects in the past...either total X-Factor
Projects, or part of other team projects.
PacmanX, Pacman3DX, WormsX, BreakOut3DX, etc....
3. I posted a great idea in
the forum, and you are not responding!
Most of the time, answers are posted on the forum you just have to be
patient. Look if there is an older thread on the same topic or the
to-do list above.
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Problems encountered |
0. Resources are not
up-up-date, time does not change, fleets don't get sent, etc.... help!
This is not really a problem related to X-Factor Development, but to the browser you
are using. It occurs only with Internet Explorer ( or the AOL thing ), the
program decides to stop requesting up-to-date pages from the server and
display previously cached ones instead. A known solution, I heard, is to
delete the cache files. Another solution would be to upgrade your browser to
Mozilla,
Opera or
Netscape. It could also be caused by a bad proxy, ignoring http headers
and caching files.
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