I tried to get it done the easy way, but how do I get a reference to "Content" in the set-accessor of the TextureName property?

Thanks for the help. I would prefer the more sophisticated version, but I haven't gotten it to work yet. Is there a way to read in an automatically serialized ActorContent.xml with a custom ContentTypeReader and have it return an Actor class?That way I could load the texture using the ContentManager in the overridden Read method: ...

I have a class containing a Texture2D, which I want to load from an xml where the path to the imagefile is saved.In the end I want to be able to load the class like this: Actor actor = content.Load<Actor>("actor.xml");  this is how the xml looks like: ...

For those interested in HLSL and particle-systems I found some nice articles: HLSL Introduction Particle Tutorial Series Particle Systems (Catalin Zima - XNA and HLSL blog)

Thank you for the information! If I understand you right, there's nothing we can do in this case as long as it is limited to the CPU and we should try to port our particle-system to the GPU. Well, then it looks like I'll have to get into shader-programming! XD

We aren't using multiple threads yet, but shouldn't it be possible to get it running on 360 at least as fast as on PC without multiple threads? Our particle-methods:   ...

Nico:Will this work on the older zune.  I bough a zune right when it came out.  Will these game work with the older ones? It'll work on all zunes!But if you have a game that uses the touchpad, you won't be able to play it on your Zune 30.