XNA: Draw Bounding Box around Sprite

Question

I'm just starting with XNA and I wanted to draw Debug Lines around my Texture/Sprite to help me.

Is there an easy way to do it with SpriteBatch? I haven't used the GraphicsDevice yet to draw....

Thanks!

Answer 1

http://www.xnawiki.com/index.php/Drawing_2D_lines_without_using_primitives

I would suggest to create subclass of SpriteBatch that would have DrawLine and DrawRectangle function and in constructor create 1x1 texture.

Answer 2

Check out this forum post in which the poster details how he is making spriteBatch draw in wireframe mode.

Basically you just need to change your draw code to this;

spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.Immediate,BlendState.Opaque);
RasterizerState state = new RasterizerState();
state.FillMode = FillMode.WireFrame;
spriteBatch.GraphicsDevice.RasterizerState = state;

spriteBatch.Draw(sprite, position, Color.White);

spriteBatch.End();

And obviously change "spriteBatch.Draw(sprite, position, Color.White)" to be a loop drawing all of your sprites.