2D XNA Tutorial

[zunebro]

XNA Creators Club Online - getting started

[Ricardo Dawkins]

Very good...+rep for finding these tutorials...

[Justananomaly]

Great find! +rep

[Spike!]

Do you even read before you post these Tutorials? Or do you simply do it to trick people into giving you +rep?

Not only is this tutorial for creating games to use with the Xbox 360, it is for XNA 2.0 which dosen't even work with the Zune.

[Tiptup300]

XNA 3.0 is identical to XNA 2.0. Not to mention the steps involved in programming for the xbox 360 are identical.

[zunebro]

rep isn't cash in my pocket bro...
while this may not be actually for the zune it's a start in learning. if it's not for you just ignore the message.

Originally Posted by Spike!

Do you even read before you post these Tutorials? Or do you simply do it to trick people into giving you +rep?

Not only is this tutorial for creating games to use with the Xbox 360, it is for XNA 2.0 which dosen't even work with the Zune.

[seifer93]

I will give you + rep for this but honestly it isn't very hard to find this. This is the official site (I think).

[Epoc]

Originally Posted by Spike!

Do you even read before you post these Tutorials? Or do you simply do it to trick people into giving you +rep?

Not only is this tutorial for creating games to use with the Xbox 360, it is for XNA 2.0 which dosen't even work with the Zune.

It seems to be working for me fine, though I have some errors I can't quite seem to straiten out involving parentheses...

[LedZepp]

Spike! get off your high horse. XNA 3.0 is mainly the same as 2.0 except maybe a couple syntax changes, a couple new classes, and the fact that it supports the Zune.

Any tutorial you find that involves XNA and 2D graphics will work.

[Tiptup300]

Originally Posted by LedZepp

Spike! get off your high horse. XNA 3.0 is mainly the same as 2.0 except maybe a couple syntax changes, a couple new classes, and the fact that it supports the Zune.

Any tutorial you find that involves XNA and 2D graphics will work.

XNA isn't a language. It doesn't have a syntax.

[zunebro]

one thing i know from programming php and other webstuff it makes good pratice to open and close all brackets, braces, parenthesis, and greater/less than signs before putting the rest of the code in it.

Originally Posted by Epoc

It seems to be working for me fine, though I have some errors I can't quite seem to straiten out involving parentheses...

[Netrix]

Originally Posted by Tiptup300

XNA isn't a language. It doesn't have a syntax.

I think he meant different parameters or different uses for certain functions.

[SimReality]

Originally Posted by Tiptup300

XNA isn't a language. It doesn't have a syntax.

If we want to get pedantic, technically XNA isn't an API either; XNA is a brand. The XNA Framework (XNA FX) is the API. XNA Game Studio (XNA GS) is the Visual Studio integration and deployment system. XNA is the brand name for all of Microsoft game technologies including the XNA FX, XNA GS, and native C++ based DirectX (possibly others, but that I'm not sure of). But this is all just dragging us waay off topic.

Back on topic, yes, any tutorial targetting XNA GS 2.0 will work for XNA GS 3.0 CTP as far as I can tell. I've yet to see any method or class that works in 2.0 that no longer works the same in 3.0).

[BaboonOfTheYard]

This is a great tutorial! Thanks, it's really helping me. But I have run into a problem.

In video 4.3, 'Drawing the Background', I was told to type the following under 'protected override void Draw(GameTime gameTime)':

            spriteBatch.Begin(SpiteBlendMode.AlphaBlend);
            spriteBatch.Draw(backgroundTexture, viewportRect, Color.White);
            spriteBatch.End();

However, XNA tells me this in the Error List:

Error 1 The name 'SpiteBlendMode' does not exist in the current context

Because of this error, it won't let me debug the game.

And another small thing, though I don't think this effected anything, in the tutorial's example of the code, this was written under 'protected override void LoadContent()':

            spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(graphics.GraphicsDevice);

However, in my version of the code, the 'graphics.' in front of 'GraphicsDevice' was omitted:

            spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(GraphicsDevice);

I went ahead and put the 'graphics.' in there, and it doesn't seem to have effected anything, but could someone explain this to me?

[Netrix]

Originally Posted by BaboonOfTheYard

This is a great tutorial! Thanks, it's really helping me. But I have run into a problem.

In video 4.3, 'Drawing the Background', I was told to type the following under 'protected override void Draw(GameTime gameTime)':

            spriteBatch.Begin(SpiteBlendMode.AlphaBlend);
            spriteBatch.Draw(backgroundTexture, viewportRect, Color.White);
            spriteBatch.End();

However, XNA tells me this in the Error List:



Because of this error, it won't let me debug the game.

And another small thing, though I don't think this effected anything, in the tutorial's example of the code, this was written under 'protected override void LoadContent()':

            spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(graphics.GraphicsDevice);

However, in my version of the code, the 'graphics.' in front of 'GraphicsDevice' was omitted:

            spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(GraphicsDevice);

I went ahead and put the 'graphics.' in there, and it doesn't seem to have effected anything, but could someone explain this to me?

SpiteBlendMode does not exist, but SpriteBlendMode does.

GraphicsDevice and graphics.GraphicsDevice in this case are basically the same thing, so it does not matter which one you use.