Generating Universe with System.Drawing.Bitmap before Xna.Texture

Generating Universe with System.Drawing.Bitmap before Xna.Texture

• benwalker

  Oh okay so I don't have to worry about creating textures.

  Thanks! :)

  
  
  

• stallion_alpa

  YOu would probbly generate it as part of your build process and just import the artwork as a texture files.

  Or you could use a pointlist and draw the points like I did in the spacewar retro code. See retro/retrostarfield.cs

  Or you could use a pointlist to draw into an offscreen texture and use that texture.

  
  
  

• nairB

  You could also look at Surface.SetData(). A quick example:
  

• aragon127

  All I get when applying this is a

  "Index was outside the bounds of the array" error.

  Any idea's, I even tried applying the surface directly on to the new texture surfac which does not produce errors

  
  
  

• Alin Constantin - MSFT

  Okay, that helps.

  So If I wanted to develop a game for XBox (well I don't have one right now), how would I go about generating my own texture if there's no System.Drawing namespace support for XBox 360

  
  
  

• Luc Pettett

  You should set the position of your stream back to the beginning before you try to read the texture from it.

  tempStream.Seek (0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

  But AFAIK there will be another future problem if you want to run this on the XBox. System.Drawing will be not supported there.

  
  
  

• ku19832001

  Never mind me, good rule of thumb, always check the rest of your code before putting questions on a board.

  Damn array's.

  Although the effectgenerated is not a starfield as such but a nice gradient colout texture, ideas on how to use this methof a starfield

  
  
  
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