Tutorials

    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 […]

  Now that we covered the basic building blocks of 3D modeling, lets look at what we can do with them.  At it’s core, 3D modeling is pretty straight forward and is built around a few core operations.  Although the names may change from application to application, the following instruction should be applicable to any […]