VB.NET XNA Tutorial 5.0: A Sprite class

How to turn a regular VB.NET Windows application into an XNA Game application for Windows. Note this video references the XNA 1.0 DLLs. The process is similar for 2.0.

Tutorial 5 continues with a somewhat non-mathematical explanation of how sprites move around on the screen by using it's origin combined with a transform matrix. Uses Photoshop as a visual aid.

Tutorial 5 continues by adding a matrix member to the sprite class and transforming the sprite with its matrix.

Start your own game class by deriving from the generic XNA game class

The goal of tutorial 5.3

The ship from Tutorial 6 is ported into it's own class to demonstrate the re-usable nature of game objects.

Starting an engine project; implementing the VBContentManager class

More fun with sprites and matrices. A rotating turret on a spaceship is taught how to aim at the origin of another sprite on the screen.

The final video in the 5.x series of tutorials which focuses on the Sprite class. We'll add a parent reference to sprites as well as a child sprite list and create the class members necessary to...

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