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Download book code from here.

There was a confusion over the US and EU, release dates of the book, which has meant some early users of the book have come here to discover there are no files ready. My apologies for this, I am working on this right now and will have all files as soon as possible. If you need a file urgently, please log on to the forums and leave a message, I will try to expidite the file you need. A few minor issues with using the new Raspberry Model3B+ have also come up and I had to find a fix for those, which I think I have done now and can continue to add the files.

Also please note, most of these 1st files are using pre Nov2017 Raspbian libs, if you have a post Nov2017 version of Raspbian, you will have to use 6 new files GLESv2_static EGL_static vchiq_arm vcos khrn_static and finally pthread in place of the 2 older GLESv2 and EGL libs. I will set up, old and new, and non Raspbian folders as soon as I can.

Check the forums for any known issues, or to ask for help here

Note! If you are downloading these files to try out without having the book, please do be aware the book makes the point that several of these files have specific errors in them, and the reader is encouraged to locate and fix them. In particular the early files have deliberatly poor managment of memory and architecture, which the reader is lead through to demonstrate the issues such bad design can cause. Also NONE of the projects are optimised for performance, and all use a simple but inefficient flyweight design pattern. The aim of the projects is clarity of purpose and comprehension. Readers are encouraged to pinpoint the bottlenecks and update the code to greatly improve effectivness.

All links are in development.

Hello world with Visual GDB

Chapter 3 Surface Files cpp/h

Chapter 4 (photoframe)

Input files cpp/h

Chapter 5 Example of Double Buffer framework

Chapter 5 InvaderStart add your own code

Chapter 5 InvaderStart but for a dual config for non VisualGDB to get you started

Chapter 5 InvaderFin, a near complete example

Chapter 5 Kamakzi Base *updated 19/11/28*

Chapter 5 TilesExample

Chapter 5 MyLib Example

Chapter 5 BobsDay single screen platform

Chapter 5 BobsDay V2 expanded with baddies and attributes

Chapter 5 BobsWorld Tile Demo with scrolling

Chapter 5 Skramble, baseline scrolling shooter

Chapter 5 Fireworks-Some fun with particles and testing cpu limits

Chapter 6 Hello Matrix2 Our 1st cube(Use this instead of 3DBase)

Chapter 6 Hello Cubes a more robust cube draw

Chapter 6 Hello Cubes using VBO and small optimisation

Chapter 6 Hello Cubes with textures

Chapter 7 Space cadet, 1st steps to Model Loading

***Chapter 8 Ground Plane Demo, under review will be uploaded shortly***

***Chapter 8 FilterDemo, under review will be uploaded shortly***

Chapter 8 Simple MD2 demo

This is a 3DGeneric project, no control object, just a framework for gameplay intended for starting a new 3D project (unoptomised project)

Not Book Related

This is a general test project, it is unoptomised, and has set ups for various SBC's

A Battleships (graphic) project from my students, it needs two systems, one can be PC, one Pi)

A version of Space Cadet set up to be both VisualGDB complient AND VisualStudio for Linux, to build the linux version make sure you try to build an ARM version(Raspberry Only at the moment)

Its important to note, that the book does not ask you to write code on the target system itself, you need to use a Windows PC and an IDE.
I use Visual Studio, info on how to set up your PC and connect to your target is given in the book. There will be a few examples of Visual Studio Linux targets and for on target Code::Blocks projects but only as a guide. If you want to write on target, none of the projects are very hard to to convert to different compiler methods. All code as been produced as simply as possible for clarity rather then efficency.

There are of course a couple of important support files/libs you will need, not least of which is Bullet Physics which you can install for the PC at https://pybullet.org/wordpress/ , and use sudo apt-get install libbullet-dev on your SBC for a binary which should be stable though sometimes a little behind the PC version

You will also need to ensure you have Visual Studio 2017, it's available free, which is a very cool thing for Microsoft to do.

Once you have installed VS2017, and run and exited it once, you will need to install VisualGDB BUT DO NOT ACTIVATE IT, unless you intend to buy it! The trial only lasts 30 days, and you have a lot of things to cover in the book. Wait until you are ready to start using it on your target machine so you can get the most use of the free trial and then decide if you want to buy it. (it really is a very useful package).

If you don't want to buy VisualGDB or just run out of time, it is perfectly possible to use Visual Studio 2017's inbuilt systems for Linux build chain. It's a little less friendly for beginners, but its not too hard to set up. After 30days of coding you should be able to adapt to it and make a decision on which build method you prefer. Some comparative VS2017 versions of projects will be available when I have time to set them up and test.

The Book lists several other libs you might need at different times, install them when you are instructed but do note that newer versions might conflict with the book code, I'll try to ensure that any conflicts are resolved as soon as I am aware of them. Use the Forums Luke!