| Description |
1 online resource (480 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
If you're fascinated by the complexities of animating video game characters and are curious about the transformation of model files into 3D avatars and NPCs that can explore virtual worlds, then this book is for you. In this new edition, you'll learn everything you need to know about game animation, from a simple graphical window to a large crowd of smoothly animated characters. First, you'll learn how to use modern high-performance graphics, dig into the details of how virtual characters are stored, and load the models and animations into a minimalistic game-like application. Then, you'll get an overview of the components of an animation system, how to play the animations and combine them, and how to blend from one animation into another. You'll also get an introduction to topics that will make your programming life easier, such as debugging your code or stripping down the graphical output. By the end of this book, you'll have gained deep insights into all the parts of game animation programming and how they work together, revealing the magic that brings life to the virtual worlds on your screen. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Contributors -- Dedicated -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Building a Graphics Renderer -- Chapter 1: Creating the Game Window -- Technical requirements -- Getting the source code and the basic tools -- Code organization in this book -- The basic code for our application -- NULL versus nullptr -- Creating your first window -- Adding support for OpenGL or Vulkan to the window -- GLFW and OpenGL -- GLFW and Vulkan -- Event handling in GLFW -- The GLFW event queue handling -- Mixing the C++ classes and the C callbacks |
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The mouse and keyboard input for the game window -- Key code, scan code, and modifiers -- Different styles of mouse movement -- Summary -- Practical sessions -- Additional resources -- Chapter 2: Building an OpenGL 4 Renderer -- Technical requirements -- The rendering pipeline of OpenGL 4 -- Basic elements of the OpenGL 4 renderer -- The OpenGL loader generator Glad -- Anatomy of the OpenGL renderer -- The main OpenGL class -- Buffer types for the OpenGL renderer -- Loading and compiling shaders -- Vertex and fragment shaders -- Creating our shader loader -- Creating the simple Model class |
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Getting an image for the texture -- Summary -- Practical sessions -- Additional resources -- Chapter 3: Building a Vulkan Renderer -- Technical requirements -- Basic anatomy of a Vulkan application -- Differences and similarities between OpenGL 4 and Vulkan -- Technical similarities -- Differences -- Using helper libraries for Vulkan -- Initializing Vulkan via vk-bootstrap -- Memory management with VMA -- Fitting the Vulkan nuts and bolts together -- General considerations about classes -- Changes in the Window class -- Passing around the VkRenderData structure |
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Vulkan object initialization structs -- Required changes to the shaders -- Drawing the triangles on the screen -- Differences and similarities between OpenGL and Vulkan, reprised -- Summary -- Practical sessions -- Additional resources -- Chapter 4: Working with Shaders -- Technical requirements -- Shader basics -- GLM, the OpenGL Mathematics library -- GLM data types and basic operations -- GLM transformations -- Vertex data transfer to the GPU -- Switching shaders at runtime -- Creating a new set of shaders -- Binding the shader switching to a key -- The shader switch in the draw call |
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Shader switching in Vulkan -- Sending additional data to the GPU -- Using uniform buffers to upload constant data -- Creating a uniform buffer -- Shader changes to use the data in the buffer -- Preparing and uploading data -- Using uniform buffers in Vulkan -- Using push constants in Vulkan -- Summary -- Practical sessions -- Additional resources -- Chapter 5: Adding Dear ImGui to Show Valuable Information -- Technical requirements -- What is Dear ImGui? -- Adding ImGui to the OpenGL and Vulkan renderers -- Adding the headers to the OpenGL renderer -- Adding the headers to the Vulkan renderer |
| Subject |
Video games -- Programming.
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C++ (Computer program language)
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Jeux vidéo -- Programmation. |
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C++ (Langage de programmation) |
| Added Author |
Szauer, Gabor, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dunsky, Michael C++ Game Animation Programming Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited,c2023 |
| ISBN |
9781803241364 |
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1803241365 |
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