panda3d-lecture

Panda3D is an open source game engine. This project is about creating a series of tutorials that provide a gentle enough entry to it for people who already know Python. Here is a rough first outline...

Part 1

History

Hi. So, what is Panda3D? In the 80s, Disney started experimenting with VR technology for its theme park rides....

License

BSD-3 means what?

Community

...and here's a whole bunch of websites to read about it, to get in contact with the community, or to throw money at Panda3D. panda3d.org, Discourse, Discord, IRC, Twitter, Reddit, ...

Part 2

Installation / Building

• pip install panda3d
• git clone makepanda

Hello World & Deployment

import ShowBase; ShowBase(); base.run() bdist_apps

base? WTF?

• What is that panda3d / direct split about?
• Basics of ShowBase / provided builtins
• task_mgr / events

Part 3

Foreword

There is no editor.

Setting the scene

scene graph, and what to do with it

Part 4

Beyond the camera

a dive into everything between scene graph and the rendered image.

Part 5

The rendering pipeline

How does a 3D image get rendered? What are shaders?