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

By : Kurt Jaegers
Book Image

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

By: Kurt Jaegers

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Time for action – Shot classes


To implement the shots that the enemy and the player will fire at each other, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Add a new class file called PlayerShot.cs to the Mars Runner project.

  2. 2. Add the following using directives to the PlayerShot class:

    using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
    using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;
  3. 3. Modify the declaration of the PlayerShot class to inherit from the GameEntity class. The new declaration should read as follows:

    class PlayerShot : GameEntity
  4. 4. Add fields to the PlayerShot class as follows:

    #region Fields
    private Vector3 velocity = new Vector3(0, 30, 0);
    public bool IsActive;
    #endregion
  5. 5. Add a constructor to the PlayerShot class as follows:

    #region Constructor
    public PlayerShot(
        GraphicsDevice device, 
        Model model, 
        Vector3 position)
        : base(device, model, position)
    {
        scale = 0.25f;
        IsActive = true;
    }
    #endregion
  6. 6. Add the ResetShot() method to the PlayerShot class as follows:

    #region Helper Methods
    public void...