Horde3D Wiki:Community portal

The community portal section of the Horde3D wiki contains community contributed articles that are not part of the official documentation. Feel free to add articles to our wiki or links to external tutorials.

Horde3D is a cross-platform graphics engine. The currently supported platform are Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

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 Beginner Tutorial - Hello World - In this section we will create a simple application that loads a character and animates it using a walk cycle. Tutorial - Picking - In this section we will demonstrate picking the node under the mouse cursor Tutorial - Simple HUD - How to use showOverlay to create a simple HUD. Tutorial - Setup Horde with SDL - How to Setup Horde with SDL. Tutorial - Setup Horde with Qt4 - How to Setup Horde with Qt4. Tutorial - Setup Horde with Gtkmm - How to Setup Horde with Gtkmm Tutorial - Stereo rendering - Basic outline for quad-buffered stereo rendering Intermediate Basic Pipeline Tutorial - Create your first custom pipeline. Procedurally generated geometry tutorial - How to create Horde3D compatible procedural geometry . Advanced to come in the future Techniques Shading Shading Technique - Dot Product Detail Texturing - Using the dot product of vectors and signed textures for high frequency detail Shading Technique - Palette Coloring - Quick and dirty palette recoloration of objects Shading Technique - Gloss Mapping - Mask which areas of an object have specular highlights Shading Technique - Glow Mapping - Allow areas on an object to emit a strong glowing highlight Shading Technique - Fresnel - Using reflection and refraction Shading Technique - Linear Depth Buffer - Create a custom linear depth buffer using vertex Shading Technique - Terrain Shading - Height and slope based shading with triplanar texturing Preprocessing Preprocessing Technique - Distance Field Vector Textures - Using Adobe Photoshop to generate textures suitable for efficient vector art rendering Content/Asset Import Collada - 3DS Max and Maya - Exporting from 3D Studio Max and Maya. Collada - XSI - Exporting from XSI. Collada - Modo - Exporting from Modo. Direct Export from Blender - Exporting from Blender. AC3D - Converting AC3D files to Horde3D Troubleshooting - "Help, my model is not showing up!" Tips and Techniques - Asset creation suggestions & ideas for Horde3d, exporting and program quirks..