Creating a Simple 3D Game with XNA

Game Creation with XNA Creating a Simple 3D Game with XNA is a guide to the basic methodology needed to program a 3D game. XNA, the Microsoft developed programming tools acting as a wrapper for the industry standard Direct X, has been increasing in popularity thanks to its goal of streamlining the 3D programming process and its innate ability to cross-develop for the Xbox 360. Along with Blender, developed by 'The Blender Foundation' is a 3D development tool publicly available for free download, having a breadth of features comparable to commercial 3D applications. This tutorial is designed to provide a guide to combining these two easily available tools to help create games in as simple and a visual way as possible, for the purposes of; amateur developers looking for an introduction to these features, hobby coders, to provide a framework for future, more advanced projects, programmers with some experience in the popular 2D aspects of XNA, looking to broaden their knowledge. This tutorial revolves around a simple game revolving around the user playing a fish chasing other fishes swimming in the opposite direction. Examples of all of the basic elements to get started on a simple game are included, including controls, sound, and gameplay. If you are a programmer or 3D modeler, feel free to contribute! Any extra content is appreciated! Contents Before each target there is an image with a subjective indication of how complete that target is: Image:25%.svg Means that there is little information or the information there may not be reliable. Image:50%.svg Means that there is some information, but it's not very detailed or extensive. Image:75%.svg Means that much of the information is there, but it needs to be touched up or organized. This is still usable. File:100%.svg Means that the information is basically complete. However, more detail can always be added. 100% November 25, 2009 /Getting started/ Blender Anyone looking to focus more on the 3D side would benefit from reading Blender 3D: Noob to Pro, but this tutorial presumes no prior knowledge. 100% November 27, 2009 /Introducing Blender's Interface/ 100% November 29, 2009 /Creating Your First Model/ 100% November 29, 2009 /Quick and easy Texturing/ 100% December 1, 2009 /Armatures and Animations/ 100% December 8, 2009 /Exporting your models for XNA/ 100% December 16, 2009 /Creating a Sky Sphere/ XNA Anyone reading this tutorial would benefit from a prior knowledge of C# or XNA, but is designed to be simple enough for a programming amateur to at least place together and edit to what they need. Any absolute beginners would be better off reading through this tutorial to cover the basic concepts. 100% December 10, 2009 /Rendering Your Model/ 100% December 13, 2009 /Adding controls/ 100% December 16, 2009 /Adding a Sky Sphere/ 100% December 19, 2009 /Adding NPCs/ 100% December 20, 2009 /Sound/ Open source software Video game development C 100%