Step 1 - Create a project

In this step you learn how to create a Kanzi Studio project.

Assets for the tutorial

The assets you use in this tutorial are stored in the <KanziWorkspace>/Tutorials/Getting started/Assets directory.

The <KanziWorkspace>/Tutorials/Getting started/Completed directory contains the completed project of this tutorial.

Create a project in Kanzi Studio

You start creating a Kanzi application by creating a project in Kanzi Studio.

To create a project in Kanzi Studio:

1. Open Kanzi Studio.
2. If you have the Welcome screen open, click Close.
   
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   To set whether you want to show the Welcome and Quick Start screens when you start Kanzi Studio, in the main menu select Edit > User Preferences and set your preference.

   
3. In the Quick Start screen click New Project.
   Once you start working on projects in Kanzi Studio the Quick Start screen shows the last ten projects you opened in Kanzi Studio. You can also use the Quick Start screen to open the example applications that come with Kanzi.
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   Your Kanzi installation comes with more than 20 tutorials and a dozen examples. Complete the tutorials and examine the examples to learn how to use Kanzi.

   
4. In the New Project window define where and what type of project you want to create by setting:
   • Name to the name you want to use for your project.
     For example, enter Getting started.
   • Location to the directory where you want to create your project.
     By default Kanzi Studio creates projects in the <KanziWorkspace>/Projects directory.
     
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     When you move a Kanzi project which includes C++ application code, make sure you update the relative paths to Kanzi Engine in the <ProjectName>/Application/configs/platforms directory of the project.

   • Template to the type of the project you want to create.
     For example, select the Application template. Application template creates a Kanzi Studio project with a Kanzi Engine application.
     • Application directory with C++ application configuration for the Visual Studio solution and template source code.
     • Tool_project directory for the Kanzi Studio project.
     
   • Materials to the type of shaders for the material types you want to include in the new your project.
     For example, select Fast performance vertex shaders. Fast performance vertex shaders template is intended for low precision and high performance OpenGL ES2 applications. It contains vertex-based shaders optimized for use with OpenGL ES2. Most of the GPU specific computation is done in the vertex shaders. This is a good starting point for most devices.

   Click Create to create the project.
   

This is how Kanzi Studio looks when you create a new project.

See also

To learn more about the project and material type templates available in the New Project window, see Creating a project.

To learn more about Kanzi Studio projects, see Projects.

To learn more about Kanzi Studio interface and how to organize it, see Customizing the Kanzi Studio interface.

To learn about the tutorials and example applications that come with Kanzi, see Examples and Tutorials.

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