XNA Procedural Textures

Question

I am trying to make procedural textures in my XNA 4.0 game, mainly for buttons, but also for other textures. Here is an image describing what I want:

I hope you understand what I want to do, if you do not, there are a few words: I want to create objects in my game. These objects will use the same texture, but can be changed and their texture will not be changed, so the pixels will be “stretched”, but will be placed in the procedure.

Answer 1

The general way to do this is to have one texture for the middle, 4 for each corner and 4 for each edge. The vertical edges and midpoints will be stretched vertically, and the horizontal edges and slice will be stretched horizontally.

You can pack it in 1 texture for easy editing. You define angles and edges implicitly with a boundary distance that will define parts of the texture that should not scale.

Answer 2

I would recommend you split the textures into 5 textures. One for each side and one monochrome texture. You simply stretch one color texture and draw frame textures around your stretched color texture.

I hope I can help you.