Comments on: Making Big Grass Tiled Backgrounds in XNA

By: David Amador

David Amador — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:07:04 +0000

In VS 2010 is something like

spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.BackToFront,
                        BlendState.AlphaBlend,
                        null,
                        null,
                        null,
                        null);

By: Ramon

Ramon — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:16:49 +0000

I’ve been looking for tutorial like this, thank you very much, but the sample didn’t compile after conversion with VS 2010/XNA 4, errors complained about SaveStateMode and SpriteBlendMode.

Could you please update the code/upload newer sample?

By: Scrolling Textures in XNA | David Gouveia

Scrolling Textures in XNA | David Gouveia — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:04:31 +0000

[...] technique is in a way extremely similar to the tiling technique described by David Amador to create large tiled backgrounds with a single draw call. The only difference is that in the [...]

By: David Amador

David Amador — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:43:42 +0000

Yes. But you can still split into draw several background tiles and only drawing the visible ones. But instead oh having 300 tiles you can have like 4 ou 5

By: Dasa

Dasa — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:41:54 +0000

Interesting.
But it would be better to draw only the visible brackground?

By: Alexandre Chohfi

Alexandre Chohfi — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:07:10 +0000

GREAT POST! Already started to use this on my games! Thanks a lot!

By: Mikea

Mikea — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:42:08 +0000

Great article. I didin’t knew that and it sure would help a lot of people in their games.

thanks

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