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Microsoft XNA 4.0 Game Development Cookbook

You're reading from Microsoft XNA 4.0 Game Development Cookbook This book goes further than the basic manuals to help you exploit Microsoft XNA to create fantastic virtual worlds and effects in your 2D or 3D games. Includes 35 essential recipes for game developers.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849691987

Length 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Microsoft XNA

Concepts

2D Game Development

Author (1):

Luke Drumm

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Microsoft XNA 4.0 Game Development Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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1. Preface

1. Applying Special Effects FREE CHAPTER

2. Building 2D and 3D Terrain

3. Procedural Modeling

4. Creating Water and Sky

5. Non-Player Characters

6. Playing with Animation

7. Creating Vehicles

8. Receiving Player Input

9. Networking

Chapter 1. Applying Special Effects

In this chapter we will cover:

Creating shadows within the Reach profile
Creating shadows within the HiDef profile
Implementing lens flare within the Reach profile
Implementing lens flare within the HiDef profile
Implementing smoke within the Reach profile
Creating explosions within the Reach profile
Creating explosions within the HiDef profile

Introduction

In this chapter, we will be creating some of the common special effects used in 3D games to help increase the level of realism, and thereby help the player to immerse themselves in the virtual world.

The examples in this chapter assume that at least the bare bones of a 3D scene are already present, with one or more 3D objects being rendered successfully to the screen. If inspiration for how to achieve this is in short supply, Chapter 2, Building 2D and 3D Terrain and Chapter 3, Procedural Modeling, provide some examples on possible ways to get started.

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Microsoft XNA 4.0 Game Development Cookbook

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ISBN-13: 9781849691987

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Authors (1)

Luke Drumm

Luke Drumm

Luke Drumm is an experienced software developer and consultant who wrote his first computer game at age 10 and has been enthusiastically exploring the world of game development ever since. With the first public release of XNA in 2006, Luke quickly latched onto the technology and began creating and talking about how to create games within XNA at every possible opportunity, culminating in his regular presence at conferences, game camps and user groups and his becoming a recipient of a Microsoft MVP award for XNA and DirectX for at least four successive years. Luke lives in Sydney, Australia, with his amazing, patient, and supportive wife Cheryl and two dogs that may or may not rule the roost.

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