Pierre Rautenbach

3D Game Programming: Using DirectX 10 and OpenGL

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

3D Game Programming focuses on all the elements making up a 3-D first-person shooter game engine using a bottom-up approach. By following the easy-to-read text, the reader will learn how to create his or her own next-generation 3-D game engine with support for vertex and pixel shading GPU techniques (via Cg and HLSL), dynamic lighting and shadowing (via stencil shadow volumes), geometric meshes, audio, artificial intelligence, physics, environmental reflections, refraction and advanced lighting techniques such as High Dynamic Range lighting.Dealing with the cross-platform programming of 3-D Games for both Linux/MacOS X (via OpenGL/GLUT) and Windows (via DirectX 10 or OpenGL/GLUT) platforms, this book bridges an existent rift in the game development community. In addition to covering these APIs in-depth, the reader is also introduced to other game programming topics such as game development techniques and methodologies, particle systems, shader-based special effects, physics-basedanimation and artificial intelligence, making this the most comprehensive game programming guide around.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 188mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1046g
• ISBN-13: 9781844808779
• ISBN-10: 1844808777
• Artikelnr.: 24234901

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to Game Development2. OpenGL vs. DirectX as API3. The Component Object Model and DirectX4. Window Creation and Control5. Input Control6. Rendering: Direct3D and OpenGL7. Viewing and Transformations8. Color and Texture Mapping9. Lighting10. Alpha Blending and Fog11. Shadows12. Height Maps, Hidden Surface Removal, Clipping and Level of Detail Algorithms13. Polygonal Meshes and Animation14. Physics Modeling15. Artificial Intelligence16. Audio17. Creating an Interactive 3D Environment