MONOGAME TEXTUREPACKER HOW TO
MONOGAME TEXTUREPACKER CODE

In the properties of the XML I set Build Action to 'Content' and then Copy to Output Directory to 'Copy Always'. I add the XML file to the content directory like you would any other texture etc. However as a bit of a side note and another reason why I revisited this question was to say that I have been doing a fair bit of work with XML's lately (trying to get a better understanding for them) and the best way that I have found to deal with reading custom XML files without writing a new pipeline extension for each one (as elegant as that now seems)is as follows. That make it very easy to work with XML files produced by texture packer.

MONOGAME TEXTUREPACKER CODE

I would recommend you look into using the content pipeline, as it gives a nice solution, however, the code should work like you want.ДЄs it was only mentioned in a comment I decided to say that I ended up using Niko DraЕЎkoviД‡'s suggestion of the purpose built pipeline extension made specifically for texture packer which can be found at. Return (TextureAtlasXml)serializer.Deserialize(stream) Var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(TextureAtlasXml)) Public static TextureAtlasXml FromStream(Stream stream) Public static TextureAtlasXml FromFile(String file) The following should work, however, it's entirely untested: I have read most of what msdn had to offer with no avail but any links to relevant pages or questions would be much appreciated. OH => sprite's original height (only available if trimmed)ДЄlso im not sure if im shooting myself in the foot by not making my own XML files, would that be easier? OW => sprite's original width (only available if trimmed) OY => sprite's y-corner offset (only available if trimmed) OX => sprite's x-corner offset (only available if trimmed)

MONOGAME TEXTUREPACKER HOW TO

However i have yet to come across a simple explanation of how to load in XML files into an XNA 4.0 project without writing my own content pipeline (something i would like to avoid if possible) and once loaded how to effectively (in general) extract the data into the Rectangle variable. Then i can just use this as the source rectangle for the drawing bit. What i would like to be able to do is read the spritesheet location and icon size of the appropriate icon from the XML file into a Rectangle. I have decided to use a simple spritesheet maker which outputs the spritesheet as well as a simple XML file with the locations of each of the seperate icons in it. I have an XNA game in which part of the UI shows an icon which will change every so often(how often is irrelevant). Hey i've been looking around for a while now and i still cant find a straight answer to this problem.

Monogame texturepacker