 | Tutorial 01: Adding DigitalRune Engine to an XNA Game |
This section shows how to add DigitalRune Engine features to an XNA game project. This is a step-by-step tutorial – not a checklist. This article describes in detail the journey from the XNA game project template to a small game project. Along the way we will touch many parts of the DigitalRune Engine. We will try to highlight and explain several concepts and design decisions which are used in the engine and in other samples.
ScreenshotHere is a screenshot of the game that is created in this tutorial:
DownloadFollowing ZIP file contains the final project (including the necessary DigitalRune DLLs and XNBs):
Steps- Step 1: Setup
- Step 2: Empty game
- Step 3: Input service
- Step 4: Graphics service
- Step 5: Debug rendering
- Step 6: Game object service
- Step 7: Model content
- Step 8: Rendering models
- Step 9: Animated Model
- Step 10: More debug rendering
- Step 11: Physics
- Step 12: Particles
- Step 13: Sky box
- Step 14: Post-processing
- Step 15: Add DigitalRune Graphics content
- Step 16: GUI
- Step 17: Deferred lighting
ConclusionThis tutorial starts with the basics and covers a wide range of DigitalRune features. We hope it covers the information that is necessary to understand the rest of the DigitalRune documentation and samples.
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