Comments on: Game Engine Tutorial Part IV, Section 2 – Sprite

By: Thick_propheT

Thick_propheT — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:32:11 +0000

Nvm… I guess it would help if I had remembered to finish coding this thing XD. Also, for XNA 4.0, make sure to use this:
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
Sprite sprite = new Sprite(0, 0, @”Content\Puppy”);

The “Content/Puppy” was the cause of the problem, but if you’re going to start coding, remember to finish.

By: Thick_propheT

Thick_propheT — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:28:52 +0000

Forgot to mention that I’m writing this in VS2010 for Windows Phone 7. That has made a difference with some of the code here too.

By: Thick_propheT

Thick_propheT — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:20:03 +0000

I keep getting an exception at this line:

T read = base.ReadAsset(assetName, RecordDisposableAsset);

in the load method of IEContentManager saying that the puppy file wasn’t found. There couldn’t be a worse place for an exception, because I understand the methods of the IEContentManager least of any methods in the whole project lol. I’m using XNA 4.0, which has caused a few problems as far as compatibility with 3.1 code, but I’m not sure if it has anything to do with this. Any suggestions?

By: Kane

Kane — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:18:50 +0000

Thank your for the great Tutorial, i have optimized my Engine with it. I hope there will come more….

Maybe it is great to have good Code, but I have benchmarked the Sprite-Class with Spritebatch.start /.end and without it(not in the Sprite-Class). If you have more than 1000+ Sprites on Screen, there is a difference up to 2000%! On fast Computers you dont notice it, but on Zune or Phone 7 it is a perfomance killer.

With 10.000 Sprites:
with Spritebacht.start / .end in Sprites 1600 ms
without it 80 ms

By: william

william — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:28:35 +0000

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for the tutorials. I really like the structured way of doing things.