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Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook

By : Zheng Yang
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Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook

By: Zheng Yang

Overview of this book

Developing games for Windows Phone 7, a new mobile platform, is your big chance to impact the world of mobile games. The XNA 4.0 for Windows Phone 7 integrates a lot of capabilities from software and hardware for you to create incredible games. The next generation of mobile games will be built by you. Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook is the best choice for you to make a game on Windows Phone 7. The book helps you to master the indispensable techniques to create your games using XNA 4.0. From the basics such as animating a 2D sprite and interacting with the customized graphical user interface to the more challenging such as 3D graphic rendering and collision detection. This comprehensive cookbook covers all the essential areas of XNA game development for Windows Phone 7, such as approaches to control the sensors, gestures and typical kinds of cameras. We also have recipes for sprite animation, texture rendering, and graphical user interface development that will give you a powerful tool to work with 2D effects. After this we move onto the more juicy stuff with recipes covering 3D graphic rendering and collision detection, and major ways to improve your loading efficiency. You will also work with Xbox live so you can take your game global. Finally, no mobile game development book would be complete without a look at performance optimization to make your games run faster. Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook will equip you with the firepower to rock the game world.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Rendering different parts of a character into textures using RenderTarget2D


Sometimes, you want to see a special part of a model or an image, and you also want to see the original view of them at the same time. This is where, the render target will help you. From the definition of render target in DirectX, a render target is a buffer where the video card draws pixels for a scene that is being rendered by an effect class. In Windows Phone 7, the independent video card is not supported. The device has an embedded processing unit for graphic rendering. The major application of render target in Windows Phone 7 is to render the viewing scene, which is in 2D or 3D, into 2D texture. You can manipulate the texture for special effects such as transition, partly showing, or something similar. In this recipe, you will discover how to render different parts of a model into texture and then draw them on the Windows Phone 7 screen.

Getting ready

Render target, by default, is called the back buffer. This...