BRender Tutorial Guide:Contents

Contents

Introduction

1 Setting The Scene

Scene Description

Co-ordinate Systems
Perspective and Parallel Projection
Geometric Transformations
Matrix Algebra and BRender
Visualisation
Hidden-Surface Removal

Calculating Colour

Colour and the CRT
Double Buffering
More about Hidden-Surface Removal

Describing Scenes in BRender

BRender Data Types
The Registry
BRender Program Structure
Conventions

2 Getting Started

Initialisation and Termination
Setting up the World Database
Animation Loop
More About Background Colour

3 Positioning Actors

Your Second Program

Transformation Function
Adding the Sphere and Torus
The Animation Loop

4 Actor Hierarchies

5 Adding Colour

The Program
8-Bit Indexed Colour Mode

6 Texture Mapping

Loading the Texture Map
Loading the Material
Assigning the Material
8-Bit Colour

7 File Conversion

Converting 3D Studio (.3ds) Files

Importing Texture Maps

15-bit True Colour
8-bit Indexed Colour

8 BRender Tools

Importing Models into BRender

Working with 8-bit Colour
Working with True Colour

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