I was able to buy the book at World's Biggest Bookstore in Toronto yesterday (April 27). I'm going through Chapter 1 now and one bit seems a little unclear to me: Page 18 says to drag the texture CityGroundSmall.jpg into the Solution Explorer but doesn't say where this jpeg comes from... The Chapter 1 zip file on wrox.com doesn't have it, and it didn't come with XNA Game Studio Express.

I'm just using my own texture now, but where is this CityGroundSmall.jpg located?

Congratulations! That racing game is very well done. It will help me a lot.
I also bought your book, but I will only receive it in a month from now.

Can I ask you something? I would like to see two XNA tutorials that I still didn't find anywhere.  One tutorial would be showing how to create a scene editor, where we could load our models, adjust it inside the scene and save them in a file with its properties. This would make a lot easier the creation of scenes for games. And today, almost every game engine outthere have a scene editor. And the other one would be talking about GUI creation with perhaps a project that would make have the controls to be draged and droped inside a XNA form, then save its position.

Thanks for all your work and inspiration.

I installed the XNA shooter project (using the installer provided in the download), and although I can hear sounds, I get nothing but a black screen when I enter a mission - the main menu is fine.

My laptop exceeds the minimum requirements, and I have all relevant software installed.

Anything to do with monitor refresh rates maybe?

There is a log file saying:

[22:49:18] Creating RenderToTexture failed: System.InvalidOperationException: The method call is invalid.
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.RenderTarget..ctor(GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice, Int32 width, Int32 height, Int32 numberLevels, SurfaceFormat format, MultiSampleType multiSampleType, Int32 multiSampleQuality, Boolean isTexture2D)
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.RenderTarget2D..ctor(GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice, Int32 width, Int32 height, Int32 numberLevels, SurfaceFormat format, MultiSampleType multiSampleType, Int32 multiSampleQuality)
   at XnaShooter.Shaders.RenderToTexture.Create()
[22:49:37] Failed to execute Mission
Error: System.Exception: You can't call Resolve without first setting the render target!
   at XnaShooter.Shaders.RenderToTexture.Resolve()
   at XnaShooter.Shaders.ShadowMapShader.GenerateShadows(RenderDelegate renderObjects)
   at XnaShooter.GameScreens.Mission.RenderLevelBackground(Single levelPosition)
   at XnaShooter.GameScreens.Mission.Run(XnaShooterGame game)
   at XnaShooter.XnaShooterGame.Draw(GameTime gameTime) .......

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