Difference between revisions of "Hello World in XNA 3.0 using spritefont"

Revision as of 18:29, 25 January 2016

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.

1 SpriteFont spriteFont;      //Declare spriteFont

right below the definition of spriteBatch

1 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

1             // TODO: use this.Content to load your game content here
2             spriteFont = Content.Load<SpriteFont>("Kootenay");

6. Add code to Draw some text with your new spriteFont. In the Draw() method add

1  // TODO: Add your drawing code here
2             spriteBatch.Begin();
3             spriteBatch.DrawString(spriteFont, "Hello XNA!!!", new Vector2(100, 100), Color.Silver);
4             spriteBatch.End();