Adding Art, Music, and Other Game Assets

Describes game assets, such as bitmaps, models, textures, and sounds. These assets, a collection of data files used to support gameplay, are managed by the XNA Framework Content Pipeline.

This section discusses how you can manage the assets in a game project.

In This Section

• Adding Content to a Game
  Describes how to add and load content such as textures, meshes, sounds, and data in your game.
• Game Content Project
  Describes a project type designed to store all content for a game.
• Game Content References
  Describes the use of the Content References node within a game project.
• How to: Add a Game Content Project
  Describes the process to create a new content project in an XNA Game Studio solution.
• How to: Add Game Assets to a Content Project
  Demonstrates how to add an art asset to a game content project.
• Game Asset Properties
  Describes property settings, indicating which actions the project system should perform on a game asset file of a supported type.
• SpriteFont and Content Pipeline Fallback Font Warnings
  Describes issues regarding fallback font warnings issued by the content pipeline build process.
• Adding New Content Types
  Describes the architecture and features of the Content Pipeline, and how to add new content types.

Related Overview Topics

• Displaying Pictures and Playing Video
  Provides overviews about how to use the Media API to retrieve system media, including pictures, songs, and video.
• Getting Started with XNA Game Studio Development
  Provides introductory information about developing games with XNA Game Studio.