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Another update.
Apr 21st
Well, this has been a busier week than I’d thought. I’ve been more exhausted from the rifle range than I’d anticipated, and while I’ve gotten the code pulled back up and compiled on my reinstall of Windows, I haven’t gotten around to actually writing the tutorial. I have gotten a little work done on it, but not much. And this weekend, I’m probably going to be making another trip to Phoenix, and you can’t count on me to get any work done on my tutorials when I’m spending time with Erin – no offense, but she’s much better company. ;)
Anybody who’s been to my blog more than one time will probably notice that I’ve changed the theme. I’m just playing around with some different themes and such, and I’ve been in a very Apple mood recently, so I decided to pop that up. Other than the time I’ve been able to spend with Erin, nothing’s really changed about my life, that’s worth mentioning, so I guess that about wraps things up here.
Sorry for those who are still waiting on the next tutorial! I’ve got a project that popped up that I’m playing around with as far as Torque goes, but I’m still planning on working through writing up the next tutorial. I’ll probably create a Google Code project for the tutorial series, so that people can get the most up-to-date code from a Subversion repository and play with things themselves, but I haven’t really gotten around to doing anything at all recently. >.>
C++/D3D Pong Tutorial 01: Setting up the Project
Jan 24th
Alright, the time has come for me to start up my tutorials again. Suppose I’ll start off with creating a Pong clone using C++ and Direct3D 9 (the game will be in two dimensions, though, for this product. Perhaps a 3D Pong tutorial can come later.)
Welcome to the D3D Pong Tutorial Series
Throughout this tutorial series, we will be developing a two-dimensional Pong clone using C++ and Direct3D 9. The tutorial assumes basic knowledge of the C++ language, as well as basic familiarity with namespaces, pointers, and the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE.
System Requirements
This tutorial series assumes that the following are true:
1) You have the DirectX SDK installed and configured on your system.
2) You know how to configure your IDE to use the header files and libraries included within the DirectX SDK
3) You know how to set up a new Win32 project (vice the use of a console project) in your IDE
4) You know how to add static libraries to a project within your IDE
Tutorial Description
This tutorial covers the first part of the D3D Pong project. We will create a Windows Application project, add the appropriate libraries, and will create the game/application window. In the next tutorial, we will cover setting up Direct3D, and will lay out the framework for the game engine.
