Beginning 3D Game Programming
Beginning 3D Game Programming
ISBN: 0672326612
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 191
Pages: 191
Authors: Tom Miller
- Beginning 3D Game Programming
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- So You Want to be a Game Developer
- Who Should Read This Book?
- Why Would I Want to Use the .NET Framework
- Why This Book?
- PartI.Introduction to Microsoft .NET
- Chapter1.Game Development and Managed Code
- What Is .NET?
- What Is Managed Code?
- Writing Code with the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE
- Compiling .NET Code on the Command Line
- Introducing Game Development
- The Developers
- The Process
- The Tools
- Summary
- PartII.Introducing Graphics, Game 1
- Chapter2.Planning Your First Game
- Coming Up with the Game Idea
- Understanding the Need for a 3D Game
- The Specification
- Summary
- Chapter3.Understanding the Sample Framework
- Creating Your Project
- Enumerating All Device Options
- Summary
- Chapter4.Show Something Onscreen
- Creating Your Device
- Time to Render
- Loading and Rendering a Mesh
- Adding a Camera to Your Scene
- Summary
- Chapter5.Finishing Up the Support Code
- Understanding the High-Resolution Timer
- Handling Lost Devices
- Adding Frame Rate Output
- Designing a UI Screen
- Designing a Button
- Summary
- Chapter6.Implementing the User Interface
- Designing the Main Menu
- Plugging into the Game Engine
- Selecting Your Character (Loopy)
- Updating the Game Engine with This New Screen
- Summary
- Chapter7.Implementing the Player and Blocks
- Writing the Player Object
- Designing the Blocks
- Summary
- Chapter8.Implementing the Level Object
- Implementing the Level
- Controlling Player Movement
- Handling Level Updates
- Summary
- Chapter9.Putting the Pieces Together
- Including the Player
- Hooking Up the Level
- Implementing the Quit Screen
- Finishing Up
- Summary
- PartIII.Basic Math Principles
- Chapter10.A Quick 3D-Math Primer
- 2D? 3D? What Are You Talking About?
- Using These 3D Points
- Manipulating 3D Objects
- Math Structures
- Vectors
- Matrices
- Summary
- PartIV.Intermediate Graphics, Peer- to-Peer Networking, Game 2
- Chapter11.Now Let s Really Get Started
- TankersThe Next Game Idea
- Creating the Tankers Project
- Getting the Project Rendering
- Building an Object Pool for Textures
- Summary
- Chapter12.Developing a More Advanced User Interface
- Using Blockers Base Classes
- Adding New Base Classes
- Implementing the Main Screen
- Rendering Your 3D Model with Your User Interface
- Summary
- Chapter13.Rendering a Realistic Tank
- Understanding a Mesh Hierarchy
- Loading a Tank Hierarchy
- Rendering a Mesh Hierarchy
- Manipulating the Tanks
- Tank Properties
- Creating the Camera Class
- Summary
- Chapter14.The Sky? A Level? The Player
- A World Without a Sky Would Be Black
- You Have a Sky, but the Tank Can t Drive There
- Someone Has to Control the Tanks
- IMoveableObject Indeed
- A Basic Collision Detection
- Summary
- Chapter15.Ready. Aim. Fire
- Implementing the Ammunition Class
- A Bullets Collection
- Finishing Up the Player
- Adding Sound
- Summary
- Chapter16.Playing Alone Isn t Fun
- Using DirectPlay
- Hosting the Session
- Joining the Session
- The Event Handlers
- Sending and Receiving Data
- Summary
- Chapter17.Finally, Finishing Tankers
- Plugging into the Game Engine
- Rendering the Game
- Summary
- PartV.Advanced Graphics, ClientServer Networking, Game 3
- Chapter18.Adding Special Effects
- Implementing a Basic Particle System
- Rendering the Particle System
- Putting the Pieces Together
- Summary
- Chapter19.Building Your Own Game
- Formulating the Idea
- Creating Your Project
- Designing the User Interface
- Summary
- Chapter20.The Programmable Pipeline
- Defining the Programmable Pipeline
- Using HLSL
- Writing a Vertex Shader
- Adding Realism Using Shading
- Adding the Pixel Shader
- Summary
- Chapter21.Controlling the Level of Detail
- Simplifying a Mesh
- Using a Simplification Mesh
- Controlling the Level of Detail Using a Progressive Mesh
- Summary
- Chapter22.Using Render Targets for Effects
- Rendering a Track and Multiple Go-Karts
- Creating Render Targets and Surfaces
- Rendering a Scene to a Render Target
- Displaying the Rear-View Mirror
- Summary
- Chapter23.Understanding the High-Level Shader Language
- Understanding Limits on Older Shader Models
- Adding Specular Highlights to Kart
- Making Specular Highlights Per Pixel
- Summary
- Chapter24.Performance Considerations
- The Event Model and Managed DirectX
- Native Assembly Generation
- The Horrors of Boxing
- The Speed of Managed DirectX
- Understanding the Cost of Methods
- Summary
- PartVI.Appendix
- AppendixA.Developing a Level Creator
- Writing the Level Creator
- Index
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Beginning 3D Game Programming
ISBN: 0672326612
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 191
Pages: 191
Authors: Tom Miller