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

You're reading from   XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide Create action-packed 3D games with the Microsoft XNA Framework with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849687089
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

XNA 4 3D Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introduction to XNA FREE CHAPTER 2. Cube Chaser – A Flat 3D World 3. Cube Chaser – It's A-Mazing! 4. Cube Chaser – Finding Your Way 5. Tank Battles – A War-torn Land 6. Tank Battles – The Big Guns 7. Tank Battles – Shooting Things 8. Tank Battles – Ending the War 9. Mars Runner 10. Mars Runner – Reaching the Finish Line

Updating


Our game will now enter an endless loop in which the Update() and Draw() methods are called repeatedly until we exit the application. By default, this loop attempts to run 60 times per second on the Windows and Xbox platforms, and 30 times per second on the Windows Phone platform.

The Update() method is used to process all of our game logic, such as checking for and reacting to player input, updating the positions of objects in the game world, and detecting collisions. The Update() method has a single parameter, gameTime, which identifies how much real time has passed since the last call to Update(). We can use this to scale movements smoothly over time to reduce stuttering that would occur if we make the assumption that our update will always run at a consistent frame rate, and code on other system events impacted by the update cycle.

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