Hello World in XNA 3.0 using spritefont
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1. Create a new XNA Project
2. Right Click on the Content Folder and Choose New Item
3. Select SpriteFont. And name your file Kootenay.spritefont
4. Now we need to add some code to load our new spriteFont. Add new SpriteFont variable.
SpriteFont spriteFont; //Declare spriteFont
right below the definition of spriteBatch
SpriteBatch spriteBatch;
5. Initalize the spriteFont viriable in the Load_Content() Method right below the // TODO: use this.Content to load your game content here
// TODO: use this.Content to load your game content here
spriteFont = Content.Load<SpriteFont>("Kootenay");
6. Add code to Draw some text with your new spriteFont. In the Draw() method add
// TODO: Add your drawing code here
spriteBatch.Begin();
spriteBatch.DrawString(spriteFont, "Hello XNA!!!", new Vector2(100, 100), Color.Silver);
spriteBatch.End();