How to draw a Texture2D sprite appear as if it's growing upwards out of another Texture2D? MonoGame/XNA

Question

I was wondering how to draw a Texture2D sprite to appear as if a vine is growing upwards, like in Super Mario Bros. Are there any options to make this work?

I found this and this but it's not quite what I'm looking for.

I'm relatively new to game development so I'm not sure where to start. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

The simplest way would be to draw the full-length vine as one sprite, load it as a Texture2D, and then on each frame draw it at a different y-coordinate offset so it appears to move across the screen. Once you have a moving vine, you need to clip a portion of it so it appears to grow out of a reference point. You can achieve this by calculating the right coordinates for the sourceRectangle and destinationRectangle of the SpriteBatch.Draw method.