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Setting up the Development Environment

• Horde3D Development Environment for Windows
• Horde3D Development Environment for Linux
• Horde3D Development Environment for Mac OS X

• Horde3D Development Environment from SVN

Tutorials

Fell free to write your tutorials here, for the benefit of the whole community.

Beginner

1. Tutorial - Hello World - In this section we will create a simple application that loads a character and animates it using a walk cycle.
2. Tutorial - Picking - In this section we will demonstrate picking the node under the mouse cursor
3. Tutorial - Simple HUD - How to use showOverlay to create a simple HUD.
4. Tutorial - Setup Horde with SDL - How to Setup Horde with SDL.
5. Tutorial - Setup Horde with Qt4 - How to Setup Horde with Qt4.
6. Tutorial - Setup Horde with Gtkmm - How to Setup Horde with Gtkmm

Intermediate

1. Basic Pipeline Tutorial - Create your first custom pipeline.

Advanced

to come in the future

Techniques

Shading

1. Shading Technique - Dot Product Detail Texturing - Using the dot product of vectors and signed textures for high frequency detail
2. Shading Technique - Palette Coloring - Quick and dirty palette recoloration of objects
3. Shading Technique - Gloss Mapping - Mask which areas of an object have specular highlights
4. Shading Technique - Glow Mapping - Allow areas on an object to emit a strong glowing highlight
5. Shading Technique - Fresnel - Using reflection and refraction
6. Shading Technique - Linear Depth Buffer - Create a custom linear depth buffer using vertex
7. Shading Technique - Terrain Shading - Height and slope based shading with triplanar texturing

Content/Asset Import

1. Collada - 3DS Max and Maya - Exporting from 3D Studio Max and Maya.
2. Collada - XSI - Exporting from XSI.
3. Collada - Modo - Exporting from Modo.
4. Direct Export from Blender - Exporting from Blender.
5. Troubleshooting - "Help, my model is not showing up!"