Author: Tess1 | Posted on: 8/13/2014 4:11:00 AM | Views : 1247

This is part of a blog series… if you came here directly you might want to read the introduction first.
In order to have something to draw we’ll have to create some assets (Sprites/Direct Draw Surfaces for images and SpriteFont for fonts to draw text)  I have drawn all my images in Expression Design which you can download for free.  It’s an excellent vector drawing tool, kind of a light weight PhotoShop version, so it’s great for drawing logos or small images.   If you don’t want to spend the time right now to draw stuff you can download all my images from the bottom of this article.
Create sprites In order to use sprites with DirectX/DirectXTK we need to convert them to Direct Draw Surfaces by opening the png file in ...

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