This lab is based on chapter 9 “The Ogre 3D Startup Sequence” from the book “Ogre 3D 1.7 - Beginner's Guide” by Felix Kerger, which will be given to you as a hand-out at the beginning of the lab class. But before you can start on the steps in the chapter, you will need to properly set up your development environment, this is covered below.

You need to: - Download and install C++ development environment - Download and install the Ogre 3D SDK - Create a system environment variable OGRE_HOME that points to SDK folder - Add the SDK bin/debug and bin/release to your system path (for DLLs to be found) - Create a new project called “Lab1” inside a new solution called “GEDE2013” - Add Ogre folders and files to project properties

• Additional include directories
• Linker→Input
• Linker→Additional Library Directories

- Copy plugins_d.cfg and resources_d.cfg from the SDK bin/debug folder into your own GEDE2013/debug (or wherever your own compiled executables will be placed)