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Programming Guide

Build Instructions

1. Building Horde3D - Instructions for obtaining the code and building Horde on all supported platforms

Beginner Tutorials

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
7. Tutorial - Stereo rendering - Basic outline for quad-buffered stereo rendering

Advanced Tutorials

1. Basic Pipeline Tutorial - Create your first custom pipeline.
2. Procedurally generated geometry tutorial - How to create Horde3D compatible procedural geometry (Horde3D 1.0.0 Beta 3 only!).

Shader Development

Render System Basics

1. The Flexible Rendering Pipeline - Introduction to Horde's data-driven rendering pipelines

Rendering Quality

1. Gamma Correction - Overview of gamma correction and how to apply it with Horde

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

Preprocessing

1. Preprocessing Technique - Distance Field Vector Textures - Using Adobe Photoshop to generate textures suitable for efficient vector art rendering

Asset Creation

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. AC3D - Converting AC3D files to Horde3D
6. Troubleshooting - "Help, my model is not showing up!"
7. Tips and Techniques - Asset creation suggestions & ideas for Horde3d, exporting and program quirks..