Ardor3D Pinball

This tutorial will attempt to cover the following parts by taking you through building a simple pinball game using Ardor3D:

1. Setting up an IDE to work with Ardor3D
   

2. Basic Scene Graph Theory
   

3. **Canvas**, **CanvasRenderer**, **Scene**, etc.
   

4. Simple Scene, managing the camera (move it around, zoom by moving or zoom by altering frustum.)
   

5. Mouse and Key input + **Triggers**
   

6. **Mesh**, **MeshData**, and **RenderState**'s.
   

7. Explaining Fixed Function Lighting and Material properties
   

8. Picking and Collision
   

9. Integrating with jinngine
   

10. Importing models into Ardor3D
    

11. Animation system
    

12. SFX - PSSM, Bloom, Water, Particles
    

13. General GLSL shader use
    

14. Best practices
    

Tutorial Sections:

1.     Setting up Eclipse and Ardor3D using Maven (Josh)
   

2.     Scenegraph Theory (Rikard)
   

3.     …