ATF Getting Started

Table of Contents Obtaining ATF Is ATF for You Join the ATF Community ATF Basics Leveraging ATF Components in Building Applications Samples and Tutorials Search Next Steps

Obtaining ATF

Here's the information you need to download and build ATF.

• ATF Requirements & Dependencies: What's required for ATF.
• Installing and Building ATF: How to install and build ATF.
• Release Notes: Release Notes and version highlights for recent ATF versions.

Is ATF for You

Find out what ATF offers in building applications to help you create games.

• ATF Overview (also available in Japanese): Watch this video to see what ATF can do. You can view other videos at ATF Videos.
• ATF Features & Benefits: Highlights of the many features and benefits of ATF.
• High Level View of ATF: Essence of ATF.
• ATF Qt Comparison: Tells why ATF is a better choice than Qt for developing game tools.
• Important ATF Components: ATF Components that provide capabilities you can easily add to your application.
• LevelEditor: This open source level editor is built with ATF.
• Views of ATF: Gallery of applications people have built from ATF.
• ATF Adoption: Teams that have used ATF and their projects.

Join the ATF Community

You can join and participate in our Google Group.

Ask questions, request features, and report problems on our GitHub issue tracker.

Sony employees who are members of SCE with SHIP accounts can also use this private forum.

ATF Basics

This section describes the frameworks and elements underlying ATF, discussing common components, classes, and interfaces.

• Core ATF Frameworks: These frameworks are the backbone of ATF.

Leveraging ATF Components in Building Applications

Microsoft's Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) allows you to use existing ATF components and create new ones that you can easily use in your application. The core ATF frameworks are based on components, and these components can be modified or replaced altogether with your own components if standard components do not meet your needs.

• What is MEF: Brief introduction to MEF.

Samples and Tutorials

ATF samples demonstrate numerous ATF features. Tutorials show how to create ATF-based applications.

• Code Samples: General description of ATF code samples.
• Samples Matrix: Shows which samples illustrate various technologies and ATF features.
• ATF Tutorials: Step through creating applications.

Search

The ATF wiki is fully searchable. Simply enter "ATF search topic" in your favorite search engine to find what you're looking for.

Next Steps

Here are your next steps to learn more about ATF.

• Steps to Learn ATF