XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide. Create action-packed 3D games with the Microsoft XNA Framework with this book and - Helion

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Autor: Kurt Jaegers
Tytuł oryginału: XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide. Create action-packed 3D games with the Microsoft XNA Framework with this book and ebook.
ISBN: 9781849687096
stron: 322, Format: ebook
Data wydania: 2012-09-25
Księgarnia: Helion

Cena książki: 159,00 zł

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Move beyond the world of flat 2D-based game development and discover how to create your own exciting 3D games with Microsoft XNA 4.0. Create a 3D maze, fire shells at enemy tanks, and drive a rover on the surface of Mars while being attacked by alien saucers."XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide" takes you step-by-step through the creation of three different 3D video games with Microsoft XNA 4.0. Learn by doing as you explore the worlds of 3D graphics and game design.This book takes a step-by-step approach to building 3D games with Microsoft XNA, describing each section of code in depth and explaining the topics and concepts covered in detail. From the basics of a 3D camera system to an introduction to writing DirectX shader code, the games in this book cover a wide variety of both 3D graphics and game design topics. Generate random mazes, load and animate 3D models, create particle-based explosions, and combine 2D and 3D techniques to build a user interface."XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide" will give you the knowledge to bring your own 3D game creations to life.

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XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example Beginners Guide
- Table of Contents
- XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
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- Preface
  - What this book covers
  - What you need for this book
  - Who this book is for
  - Conventions
  - Time for action heading
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz heading
    - Have a go hero heading
  - Reader feedback
  - Customer support
    - Downloading the example code
    - Errata
    - Piracy
    - Questions
- 1. Introduction to XNA
  - System requirements
  - Installing the Windows Phone SDK
  - Time for action installing Windows Phone SDK
    - What just happened?
  - Speller Our first XNA game
  - Time for action creating an XNA project
    - What just happened?
  - Managing content
  - Time for action creating content assets
    - What just happened?
  - Member variables
  - Time for action declaring new member variables
    - What just happened?
  - The Game1 constructor
  - Initialization
  - Time for action customizing the Initialize() method
    - What just happened?
  - Loading content
  - Time for action creating a square texture
    - What just happened?
  - Updating
  - Time for action customizing the Update() method
    - What just happened?
  - The Draw() method
  - Time for action drawing Speller
    - What just happened?
  - Helper methods
  - Time for action words and letters
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action completing the Speller project
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero
  - Summary
- 2. Cube Chaser A Flat 3D World
  - Designing the game
    - 3D coordinates
  - Creating the project
  - Time for action creating the Cube Chaser project
    - What just happened?
  - Our view of the world
  - Time for action beginning the Camera class
    - What just happened?
  - The Projection matrix
  - Looking at something
  - Time for action implementing a look-at point
    - What just happened?
  - The View matrix
  - Time for action the View matrix
    - What just happened?
  - From the ground up
  - Time for action creating the Maze classes
    - What just happened?
  - Drawing the floor
  - Time for action drawing the floor
    - What just happened?
  - Moving around
  - Time for action expanding the Camera
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action letting the player move
    - What just happened?
  - Summary
- 3. Cube Chaser It's A-Mazing!
  - Maze generation
  - Time for action defining a MazeCell
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action generating the Maze class
    - What just happened?
  - Constructing the walls
  - Time for action building walls
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action drawing the walls
    - What just happened?
  - Solid walls
  - Time for action bouncing off the walls
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero
  - Summary
- 4. Cube Chaser Finding Your Way
  - The cube
  - Time for action placing the cube
    - What just happened?
    - Rotating the cube
  - Time for action rotating the cube
    - What just happened?
  - Matrices big scary math things?
    - The translation matrix
    - The rotation matrix
    - The scale matrix
    - Combining matrices
    - What does it all mean?
  - Positioning the cube
  - Time for action randomly positioning the cube
    - What just happened?
  - Catching the cube
  - Time for action catching the cube
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero!
  - Summary
- 5. Tank Battles A War-torn Land
  - Creating the project
  - Time for action creating the Tank Battles project
    - What just happened?
  - An arc-ball camera
  - Time for action the ArcBallCamera class part 1
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action finishing the ArcBallCamera class
    - What just happened?
  - Building the playfield
    - Height maps
    - Generating the terrain
  - Time for action generating the terrain
    - What just happened?
      - Height data
  - Time for action adding the ReadHeightMap() method
    - What just happened?
      - Building vertices
  - Time for action adding the BuildVertexBuffer() method
    - What just happened?
      - Building the indices
  - Time for action the buildIndexBuffer() method
    - What just happened?
  - Let's see the terrain already!
  - Time for action drawing the terrain
    - What just happened?
  - Adding texture a gentle introduction to HLSL
    - Declaring variables
  - Time for action HLSL declarations
    - What just happened?
    - The vertex shader structures
  - Time for action Vertex Shader Input and Output definition
    - What just happened?
    - The vertex shader
  - Time for action the vertex shader
    - What just happened?
    - The pixel shader
  - Time for action the pixel shader
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action utilizing Terrain.fx
    - What just happened?
  - Moving the camera
  - Time for action moving the camera with the mouse
    - What just happened?
  - Summary
- 6. Tank Battles The Big Guns
  - Adding the tank model
  - Time for action adding the tank model
    - What just happened?
  - Building tanks
  - Time for action building the Tank class
    - What just happened?
    - Bringing things down to earth
  - Time for action terrain heights
    - What just happened?
    - Animating the tank
  - Time for action tank animation
    - What just happened?
    - The combatants
  - Time for action positioning tanks
    - What just happened?
  - Summary
- 7. Tank Battles Shooting Things
  - Interface components
    - The UIWidget class
  - Time for action creating the UIWidget class
    - What just happened?
    - UITextblocks
  - Time for action creating UITextblocks
    - What just happened?
    - UIButtons
  - Time for action creating buttons
    - What just happened?
    - Working with our UI objects
  - Time for action adding the UIHelper class
    - What just happened?
    - Creating the user interface
  - Time for action creating the UI
    - What just happened?
    - Responding to interface events
  - Time for action responding to events
    - What just happened?
    - Firing shots
  - Time for action ShotManager-part 1
    - What just happened?
    - Particles in 3D
      - Billboarded particles
  - Time for action the Particle class-part 1
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action finishing the Particle class
    - What just happened?
      - Managing particles
  - Time for action the ParticleManager class
    - What just happened?
      - HLSL for our particles
  - Time for action building Particles.fx
    - What just happened?
      - Adding particles
  - Time for action implementing particles
    - What just happened?
  - Summary
- 8. Tank Battles Ending the War
  - Managing game states
  - Time for action implementing a title screen
    - What just happened?
    - From Playing to GameOver
  - Time for action detecting hits
    - What just happened?
  - Managing turns
  - Time for action managing turns
    - What just happened?
  - Visual improvements
    - Lighting
  - Time for action computing normals
    - What just happened?
      - Diffuse lighting
  - Time for action HLSL for lighting
    - What just happened?
      - Ambient lighting
  - Time for action using ambient light
    - What just happened?
    - Multitexturing
  - Time for action multitexturing
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero!
  - Summary
- 9. Mars Runner
  - Design of Mars Runner
  - Getting started with the GSM sample
  - Time for action creating the Mars Runner solution
    - What just happened?
    - The GameScreen abstract class
    - Customizing the default ScreenManager screens
  - Time for action customizing the BackgroundScreen class
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action updating the menu
    - What just happened?
    - Adding a new screen
  - Time for action creating the MarsRunnerPlayScreen class
    - What just happened?
  - A new camera
  - Time for action the stationary camera
    - What just happened?
  - Creating the background
  - Time for action creating a skybox
    - What just happened?
  - Building the Martian surface
    - Simplified heightmaps
  - Time for action beginning the MarsTrack class
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action generating the track
    - What just happened?
    - Drawing the track
  - Time for action drawing the track
    - What just happened?
  - Summary
- 10. Mars Runner Reaching the Finish Line
  - Abstracting support for 3D models
  - Time for action the GameEntity class
    - What just happened?
  - Building the rover
  - Time for action building the rover
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action accepting user input
    - What just happened?
  - Animating the planet
  - Time for action moving the world
    - What just happened?
  - Animating the rover
  - Time for action animating the rover
    - What just happened?
  - Crashing into craters
  - Time for action detecting craters
    - What just happened?
  - Adding an enemy
  - Time for action the basic flying saucer
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action flying the saucer
    - What just happened?
  - Shots and collisions
  - Time for action Shot classes
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action the ShotManager class
    - What just happened?
    - Enemy shots
  - Time for action enemy shots
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action player shots versus aliens
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action enemy shots versus the rover
    - What just happened?
  - Scoring
  - Time for action scoring
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action the GameOver screen
    - What just happened?
  - Sound effects
  - Time for action building the SFXManager class
    - What just happened?
      - Triggering sounds
  - Time for action playing sound effects
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero!
  - Summary
- Index