Beginning 3D Game Programming

Rendering Your 3D Model with Your User Interface

You've already loaded 3D meshes in your games up to this point, and in Blockers, you actually did something similar to what you'll do here, but there you had the mesh a part of the user interface screen itself, rather than its own separate object. Add a new code file called tank.cs to your project, and add the code from Listing 12.13 to that file.

Listing 12.13. The Tank Selection Model

using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Windows.Forms; using Microsoft.DirectX; using Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D; using Microsoft.Samples.DirectX.UtilityToolkit; namespace Tankers { /// <summary> /// Will hold the possible tank colors /// </summary> public enum TankColors : byte { Gray, Black, Green, Sand, ...