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Setting Up Different Camera Modes in Your 3D World

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In a 3D application, the camera is one of the most elementary components. The camera represents the viewpoint of the user in your 3D world. XNA renders your 3D world to the screen as it is seen by the camera. So before you can ask XNA to render the content of your 3D scene to the screen, you first need to specify the position and viewing direction of your camera.

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(2009). Setting Up Different Camera Modes in Your 3D World. In: XNA 3.0 Game Programming Recipes. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1856-2_2

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