Learning XNA 4.0

Dedication; Preface; Who This Book Is For; How This Book Is Organized; Support; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; We???d Like to Hear from You; Safari?? Books Online; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: What???s New in XNA 4.0?; 1.1 Revised Project Folder Structure; 1.2 Develop Games for Windows Phone 7 Series; 1.3 Graphics Profiles; 1.4 Configurable Effects; 1.5 Built-in State Objects; 1.6 Scalars and Orientation; 1.7 Revised Input API; 1.8 Additional Audio API; 1.9 Music and Picture Enumeration and Video Playback; 1.10 Modified and Added Classes and Methods; 1.11 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Chapter 2: Getting Started; 2.1 System Requirements; 2.2 Additional Resources; 2.3 Installation; 2.4 Creating Your First XNA Application; 2.5 What You Just Did; 2.6 Summary; 2.7 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Chapter 3: Fun with Sprites; 3.1 A Look Behind the Scenes; 3.2 Game Development Versus Polling; 3.3 Modifying Your Game; 3.4 Adding a Sprite to Your Project; 3.5 Loading and Drawing Your Sprite; 3.6 Transparency and Other Options; 3.7 Layer Depth; 3.8 Let???s Move; 3.9 Animation; 3.10 Adjusting the Framerate; 3.11 Adjusting the Animation Speed; 3.12 What You Just Did; 3.13 Summary; 3.14 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 3.15 Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 4: User Input and Collision Detection; 4.1 More Sprites; 4.2 Keyboard Input; 4.3 Mouse Input; 4.4 Gamepad Input; 4.5 Keeping the Sprite in the Game Window; 4.6 Collision Detection; 4.7 What You Just Did; 4.8 Summary; 4.9 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 4.10 Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 5: Applying Some Object-Oriented Design; 5.1 Designing Your Classes; 5.2 Creating a Sprite Class; 5.3 Creating a User-Controlled Sprite Class; 5.4 Creating an Automated Sprite Class; 5.5 Game Components; 5.6 Coding the SpriteManager; 5.7 Cleaning Up; 5.8 Making Them Move; 5.9 What You Just Did; 5.10 Summary; 5.11 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 5.12 Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 6: Sound Effects and Audio; 6.1 Using XACT; 6.2 Implementing XACT Audio Files in Code; 6.3 Using the Simplified API for Sound and Audio; 6.4 Adding More Sound to Your Game; 6.5 What You Just Did; 6.6 Summary; 6.7 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 6.8 Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 7: Basic Artificial Intelligence; 7.1 The Turing Test; 7.2 Creating Sprites at Random Intervals; 7.3 Randomly Spawning Sprites; 7.4 Irrelevant Objects; 7.5 Creating a Chasing Sprite; 7.6 Creating an Evading Sprite; 7.7 What You Just Did; 7.8 Summary; 7.9 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 7.10 Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 8: Putting It All Together; 8.1 Drawing 2D Text; 8.2 Randomly Generating Different Sprite Types; 8.3 Adding Some Variety to Your Sprites; 8.4 Adding a Background Image; 8.5 Game Scoring; 8.6 Game States; 8.7 Enabling/Disabling GameComponents; 8.8 Game-Over Logic and the Game-Over Screen; 8.9 Fine-Tuning Gameplay; 8.10 Creating Power-Ups; 8.11 What You Just Did; 8.12 Summary; 8.13 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 8.14 Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 9: 3D Game Development; 9.1 Coordinate Systems; 9.2 Cameras; 9.3 Creating a 3D Camera; 9.4 Drawing Primitives; 9.5 Matrix Multiplication; 9.6 Movement and Rotation; 9.7 Backface Culling; 9.8 More on Rotations; 9.9 Even More Rotations; 9.10 Primitive Types; 9.11 Applying Textures; 9.12 What You Just Did; 9.13 Summary; 9.14 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 9.15 Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 10: 3D Models; 10.1 Using 3D Models; 10.2 Setting Up the Project; 10.3 Adding a Model to Your Project; 10.4 Drawing a Model Using a BasicModel Class; 10.5 Adding a Model Manager; 10.6 Rotating Your Model; 10.7 What You Just Did; 10.8 Summary; 10.9 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 10.10 Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 11: Creating a First-Person Camera; 11.1 Components of a Moving 3D Camera; 11.2 Moving in a First-Person Camera; 11.3 Rotations in a First-Person Camera; 11.4 Coding the Camera for the 3D Game; 11.5 What You Just Did; 11.6 Summary; 11.7 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 11.8 Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 12: 3D Collision Detection and Shooting; 12.1 Creating a Moving Enemy; 12.2 Adding Some Game Logic; 12.3 Firing Shots; 12.4 3D Collision Detection and Bounding Spheres; 12.5 Adding a Crosshair; 12.6 Adding Sound; 12.7 What You Just Did; 12.8 Summary; 12.9 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 12.10 Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 13: HLSL Basics; 13.1 HLSL Syntax; 13.2 Dissecting a Sample HLSL Effect File; 13.3 Applying an HLSL Effect in C#; 13.4 Applying HLSL Using Textures; 13.5 HLSL Effects: Creating a Negative; 13.6 HLSL Effects: Blur; 13.7 HLSL Effects: Grayscale; 13.8 What You Just Did; 13.9 Summary; 13.10 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 13.11 Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 14: Particle Systems; 14.1 Creating a Particle Engine; 14.2 Adding a Particle Effect File; 14.3 Adding Your Particle Engine to Your Game; 14.4 Adding a Starfield; 14.5 What You Just Did; 14.6 Summary; 14.7 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Chapter 15: Wrapping Up Your 3D Game; 15.1 Adding a Splash Screen Game Component; 15.2 Keeping Score; 15.3 Adding a Power-Up; 15.4 What You Just Did; 15.5 Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 16: Deploying to the Xbox 360; 16.1 Adding an Xbox 360 Device; 16.2 Converting a Project to Run on the Xbox 360; 16.3 Supporting Gamepad Input; 16.4 Deploying to the Xbox 360; 16.5 Xbox 360 Display Settings; 16.6 The Title Safe Region; 16.7 What You Just Did; 16.8 Summary; 16.9 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Chapter 17: Developing for Windows Phone 7; 17.1 Setting Up Your Windows Phone 7 Device; 17.2 Creating a Windows Phone 7 Project; 17.3 Resources; 17.4 Digging In; 17.5 Adding a ModelManager; 17.6 Finishing Details; 17.7 What You Just Did; 17.8 Summary; 17.9 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Chapter 18: Multiplayer Games; 18.1 Split-Screen Functionality; 18.2 Network Game Development; 18.3 Network Configurations; 18.4 Writing an XNA Network Game; 18.5 Modifying the Sprite Class; 18.6 Modifying the UserControlledSprite Class; 18.7 Coding Your Game1 Class; 18.8 Adding Update Code; 18.9 Adding Draw Code; 18.10 Adding Biohazard Bombs of Insanity!; 18.11 What You Just Did; 18.12 Summary; 18.13 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Answers to Quizzes and Exercises; Chapter 1: What???s New in XNA 4.0?; Chapter 2: Getting Started; Chapter 3: Fun with Sprites; Chapter 4: User Input and Collision Detection; Chapter 5: Applying Some Object-Oriented Design; Chapter 6: Sound Effects and Audio; Chapter 7: Basic Artificial Intelligence; Chapter 8: Putting It All Together; Chapter 9: 3D Game Development; Chapter 10: 3D Models; Chapter 11: Creating a First-Person Camera; Chapter 12: 3D Collision Detection and Shooting; Chapter 13: HLSL Basics; Chapter 14: Particle Systems; Chapter 15: Wrapping Up Your 3D Game; Chapter 16: Deploying to the Xbox 360; Chapter 17: Developing for Windows Phone 7; Chapter 18: Multiplayer Games; Colophon;