Tutorials

      Ok, I admit outright, this part was a long time in releasing and I apologize for that.  A big part of the reason for the delay is in my first few drafts I attempted to teach the mathematics behind this chapter, which I initially believe would be a minor task., I was […]

    In this chapter we really get a move on, literally.  Bad puns aside, we are going to add keyboard controls to our PlayerPaddle, as well as create the game ball class.  In order to add input to our PlayerPaddle ( and other game objects ) we need to make some changes to our […]

    This section is going to be a bit of overkill for a simple pong game, but in a game of any greater complexity this is a task you are going to encounter eventually.  You see, until now we have just been declaring all the various bits and bobs ( really technical term there […]

  This topic is important enough to get it’s own section, although reality is it is pretty straight forward.   When modeling, it is often advantageous to work with edge loops, which are simply stated a set of connected edges across a surface. Generally the first edge connects to the last edge, thus forming a […]