Teaching a man to fish

re: Teaching a man to fish

dna8088 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:13:07 GMT

I wanted to be able to build my spritesheets in my editor to do this I need a way to compile the spritesheet from a WinForms App into an .xnb file...

Any pointers would be good :-)

re: Teaching a man to fish

ShawnHargreaves — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:16:24 GMT

dna8088: have you looked at this sample?

http://creators.xna.com/en-us/sample/winforms_series2

re: Teaching a man to fish

dna8088 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:28:54 GMT

Thanks for the link, But...

"Note also that the XNA Framework redistributable installer does not include the Content Pipeline."

That's a bit of a showstopper if I wanted to distribute my editor with image compiler feature :-(

re: Teaching a man to fish

Justin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:31:28 GMT

That seems kinda odd, writing a class first with all the info you need in your app to convert it into xml and open the xml again

re: Teaching a man to fish

jk — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:40:07 GMT

Justin: I think this was an exercise to get an idea of how the XML should be formed and not an example of how to build an app to write out the XML. Granted, you could do it just like this and just have your editor instantiate all of the objects before writing them out, but you can just as easily have your editor (or game designer) write out XML using a different method (such as Notepad).