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

By : Kurt Jaegers
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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 – beginning the MarsTrack class


To create a track for the player to drive on, perform the following steps:

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

  2. 2. Add the following using directives to the top of the MarsTrack class file:

    using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;
    using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content;
    using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
  3. 3. Add fields to the MarsTrack class as follows:

    #region Fields
    private GraphicsDevice device;
    private Texture2D marsTexture;
    
    private List<VertexBuffer> vertexBuffers = new List<VertexBuffer>();
    private List<IndexBuffer> indexBuffers = new List<IndexBuffer>();
    
    private float terrainScale = 30f;
    
    private int[] track;
    #endregion
  4. 4. Add a constructor to the MarsTrack class as follows:

    #region Constructor
    public MarsTrack(GraphicsDevice device, ContentManager content)
    {
        this.device = device;
        track = GenerateTrack(100);
        marsTexture = content.Load<Texture2D>(@"Textures\mars_surface...