Introduction to 3D Game Engine Design Using DirectX 9 and C#

This tutorial goes through the requirements for a game engine and addresses those requirements using the applicable aspects of DirectX with C#.

List of contents

1 Overview.- 2 User Interface.- 3 Hanging Ten: A Ride Through the Rendering Pipeline.- 4 Basic 3D Objects.- 5 Complex 3D Objects.- 6 Camera: The Player's View of the World.- 7 Adding Some Atmosphere: Lighting and Fog.- 8 Artificial Intelligence: Adding the Competition.- 9 Game Audio: Let's Make Some Noise.- 10 Game Physics: Keeping It Real.- 11 Tools of the Trade.

About the author

Lynn Thomas Harrison is both a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD), and is employed as a senior systems engineer for Diamond Visionics Company, a visualization engineering company. He lives in Binghamton, New York with his wife, Gerri, and son, Michael. Lynn has been active in the simulation and graphics industries for over 22 years.

Summary

* Shows how to use DirectX from C# - the new language for the .NET platform. This makes DirectX both easier and safer to use, and makes this book unique from among every other DirectX book available.
* Focuses on programmers using DirectX instead of trying to teach DirectX.
* DirectX is becoming the premier platform for game/3D high performance graphics on Windows.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn T. Harrison, Lynn Thomas Harrison, Marshall Harrison
• Publisher: Apress
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9781590590812
• ISBN: 978-1-59059-081-2
• No. of pages: 424
• Weight: 810 g
• Illustrations: XVIII, 424 p. 18 illus.
• Series: The Expert's Voice; The Expert's Voice
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; B, Software, Software Engineering, User Interface, Game Development, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Operating systems, Professional and Applied Computing, Computer games—Programming