Stretch a texture in XNA 4.0?

Question

I can't figure anyway to do this, I don't want to scale it with .Draw, I want to just change the width.

The overload of Draw that takes a Vector2 parameter for scale is not suitable? — Andrew Russell

Sam Giles Sam Giles · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-17T16:10:55

The best way is using .Draw particularly if you are scaling a lot, especially as your object should handle its own drawing capabilities.

You can render the texture using a render target at the size you want, and then saving the render target texture.

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