Texture

Introduction

The Sprite’s Texture property controls which image the Sprite is displaying. This property is of type Texture2D. When a Sprite is created through the SpriteManager’s AddSprite method, the Sprite’s Texture property gets set inside that method.

Code Example

The following code explains how Textures are assigned.

Files used:

Add the following at class scope:

Sprite sprite;

Add the following in Initialize after initializing FlatRedBall:

sprite = SpriteManager.AddSprite("redball.bmp");

Add the following in update:

if (InputManager.Keyboard.KeyPushed(Keys.D1))
{
    sprite.Texture = FlatRedBallServices.Load<Texture2D>("redball.bmp");
}
else if(InputManager.Keyboard.KeyPushed(Keys.D2))
{
    sprite.Texture = FlatRedBallServices.Load<Texture2D>("FRB_logo.png");
}