XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide电子书

XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

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XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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