Ch 10 3D Models
20 March - AH1112 CS 583

http://creators.xna.com/en-US/education/bestpractices31 XNA Creators Club Best Practices for Indie Games - Your class project requirements force this.

Textbooks that introduce XNA 3.0 Game Studio and I would like to sponsor a short tour of those available from our SDSU Library as one of the Safari Textbooks which you can access with your Library Pin.

proquest.safaribooksonline.com.libproxy.sdsu.edu/ Search for XNA there are 2 pages for XNA 4

• XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Xbox 360 Developers by Jonathan S. Harbour

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• http://xbox.create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/?contenttype=4&devarea=16&platform=0&sort=1 XboxLive Indie Games
  

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  http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com.libproxy.sdsu.edu/9781430218555/working_with_models Ch 4: Working with Models
  Recipes in Chapter 4:

  昄oading 3D Models from files; scaling, rotating, moving, and drawing them into your 
    3D world (recipes 4-1, 4-2, and 4-6)
  昉olishing the movement of your Models by making sure they are always facing the 
    direction they're going to and by adding acceleration (recipes 4-3 and 4-4)
  昄etting the user select Models using the pointer on the screen (recipe 4-19)
  昅aking your Models come alive by visualizing their structure and animating 
    them (recipes 4-8 and 4-9)
  旵hecking for collisions between your Models by using some fast mechanisms (recipes 4-10 and 4-11)
  昄earning how you can detect collisions on the finest level of detail, by checking for collisions 
    for each triangle of your Model (recipe 4-18)
  昍endering your Model using your own HLSL effects because the BasicEffect class no longer suits 
     your needs (recipes 4-7 and 4-12)
  旹xtending the Model processor so you can access much more useful data in your XNA project 
    (recipes 4-13, 4-14, 4-15, and 4-16)
  昄earning how you can store objects of your custom class inside a Model when it is loaded 
    and processed in your custom Model processor, by coding your own TypeWriter and 
    TypeReader (recipes 4-15 and 4-16)
  昅aking your Models nicely follow the slopes of your terrain (recipe 4-17)
  

  Author web site for code
  Publisher page for code [Chapter 4 is large 480MB took 20 minutes to download at home, 469KB/Sec]

  

  Tunnel Vision game images from Chapter 23

• http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com.libproxy.sdsu.edu/9780735639935 Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0: Learn Programming Now! by Rob Miles [only uses sprites, so 2D]

Each of these textbooks will have a slightly different way of developing the 3D capabilities you expect to use for your 3D group game.

FYI - the textbook used last semester has been updated for XNA 3.0, but it is not available for free from Safari Texts. http://apress.com/book/view/9781430218173 Beginning XNA 3.0 Game Programming: From Novice to Professional by Alexandra Santos Labao, Bruno Evangelista, Jose Antonio Leal de Farias and Riemer Grootjans.

Another resource is XNA Creators Club

• http://creators.xna.com/en-US/starterkit/racinggame Racing Game, the only 3D Starter Kit listed under Education.