Problem with VertexPositionNormalTexture and BasicEffect

[willmotil]

basic effect wants VertexPositionColorTexture .

Scroll down in this post for a couple examples, they are basically copy paste.

Minimal example of drawing a quad into 2d space?

Good morning! I’m looking to draw some images with arbitrarily-located corners into an otherwise 2d game. My understanding is that one of the ways to do this is with quads. Examples of drawing quads exist, but I can’t seem to find a good way to put them into 2d space without hours of messing around with numbers to get the scale and orientation right. (“right”: I could line up the corners of my quad with the same coordinates of a rectangle drawn with spritebatch, and have all the edges match up …