2. Creating a Project

Start with our pre-requisites:

DirectX SDK as I am righting this the current version is February 2007.

Visual Studio Express 2005 current version is SP1.

XNA Game Studio Express

SoftImage/XSI Modtool

Install the DirectX SDK. Install VS Express (with SP1), Install XNA Game Studio Express.

We'll use the "New Windows Game" from the "New Project" menu of XNA.

Once we've done that we'll move onto loading a mesh file (.x file) and rendering it using shaders both vertex and pixel shaders. The rendering technology has to be at a certain level before we move onto other things. We'll have to cover:

• Loading meshes
• Loading shaders
• Rudimentary scenegraphs
• Scenelayers
• Single lights and multiple lights.
• Animation
• Shadows

That's our minimum to start with before we move onto navigation.

See 2.1 Creating a Blank Project

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