Coding with Scratch - Make 3D Games & Graphics
About this ebook
Coding with Scratch – Make 3D Games & Graphics starts by showing you how to make 3D graphics and then, step-by-step, it takes you through to making 3D games. Try the challenges and mods and make your games unique. Your adventure in game design begins here!
· Learn simple Scratch 3D techniques:
· How to build simple 3D models one layer at a time.
· Drawing shapes, cloning, animation, and adding perspective.
· How to make 3D landscapes including a park, a racetrack, a maze, and a city.
· How to speed up your code by creating your own render blocks and functions that work extra quickly.
For children who have had some experience using Scratch.
Table of Contents
1. Coding with Scratch
2. Rotating Shapes
3. Animated Dinosaur
4. 3D Chicken
5. Animated Dog
6. Cubic Tower
7. 3D Park
8. Skyscraper
9. 3D Car
10. 3D Levels Maze
11. City Driver
12. 3D Platformer
13. Dark Maze
14. Glossary
About the author
Max Wainewright is an experienced computing teacher and has taught in the UK and in Singapore. Max has worked with national government agencies and local councils to support and inspect technology in schools. He teaches coding part-time in a London primary school, and runs an innovation group supporting other local schools. Max has a Computer Science degree and has significant experience of working in the EdTech industry. He co-founded one of the most successful small UK EdTech companies, and developed award-winning software that has been used by over 90% of UK primary schools. He has provided his expertise as an Educational Software consultant for major companies including Discovery and LEGO. Max has written dozens of books teaching kids to code. Many of these are top-sellers, reaching 100,000s of kids, and have been translated into over 20 languages.
