A Panda3D Hello World Tutorial

This tutorial is called “A Panda Hello World”. It is a typical example of a simple Panda3D program. Walking through this tutorial will enable you to obtain some limited familiarity with the Panda3D API without having to learn the entire thing. The program that we are going to create will load up a small scene containing some grass and a panda. The panda will be animated to walk back and forth over the grass.

• Starting Panda3D
• Loading the Grassy Scenery
  • The Scene Graph
  • The Program
• Controlling the Camera
  • Default Camera Control System
  • Tasks
• Loading and Animating the Panda Model
  • Update the Code
  • Run the Program
• Using Intervals to move the Panda
  • Intervals and Sequences
  • The Program
• Tutorial End