how could i create a game engine?

[saAction]

i m new in game development, i know c# and i want to create a game using 3Ds Max and C# 2.0

suppose, i have a car in 3Ds Max file format and now i want to create a came using Visual Studio 2005. with C# language, when i press left arrow car move left, when i press right car move right.

what kind of steps is have to do?

how the people (game developers) creates game useing 3Ds Max and C#

[mikeschuld]

There is a great game almost exactly like what you are talking about in Tom Miller's Graphics and Game Programming Kick-Start. You might want to take a look there as it is a great first resource to getting in to C# game development. It is where I and a few others on this board started.

[Chr0n1x]

Yep, great book, I used this as well, although after these tutorials.
It comes from the ex-development lead for Managed Directx so you know it is good stuff.

Details if you wanna look it up:
Managed DirectX 9 Kick-Start
Tom Miller
ISBN: 0-672-32596-9
SAMS Publishing

[saAction]

thanks man, for this book information, i will purchase them in next few days.

i m very instrected in game development.

my next question is what is the batter choice with devepment stage.

C# with DicrectX   or  C# with OpenGL

what is easy and quick???

[mikeschuld]

Well most people here are going to tell you c# with DirectX, but that is simply because the engine associated with the forums (my engine) is wholly written in Managed DirectX. For OpenGL there are other libraries you will need to work with that allow for GL calls in C#, where DirectX calls are a simple SDK install away.

[Kolo]

Our company has just gone through the exercise of creating an OpenGL engine (as part of a productivity tool)...we used OpenGL due to the fact that we wanted to be able to port the engine to Mac.  This worked well until we discovered that most Windows PCs around today have VERY poor OpenGL implementations.

DirectX is kept up-to-date with Windows Updates so windows users generally have good DirectX releases on their machines.  Motherboard manufacturers have an interest in keeping their integrated graphics cards DX compatible where as many (mainly integrated graphics cards) have only basic (and buggy) OpenGL drivers for their moterboards. 

We have just about finished a DirectX version of our engine to help users who cant get the engine working using the OpenGL version.  The Mac uses OpenGL exclusively so we had no problems there

This should be taken into account when deciding on the 'best' format to use.

Thanks for the great tutorials and I am looking forward to the XNA release.  I am trying to get our company to start looking seriously at development in C# and Managed DX ... wish me luck 

[mikeschuld]

Well, once we have a really good XNA framework engine going, maybe it will be easier to convince them. Especially when they find out that the same code runs on both the PC and XBox 360. Although commercial uses of the Hazy Mind Engine are not allowed you can definately take what you have learned here and put together a great engine with the knowledge. Good Luck, and make sure to keep us all updated on the progress.

[Kolo]

You are definitely right there ... keep up the good work ... I'll keep you posted