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Panda3D 1.7 Game Developer's Cookbook. Over 80 recipes for developing 3D games with Panda3D, a full-scale 3D game engine

Christoph Lang, Reinier de Blois

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Panda3D 1.7 Game Developers Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Panda3D 1.7 Game Developer's Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
  - Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
    - Why Subscribe?
    - Free Access for Packt account holders
- Preface
  - What this book covers
  - What you need for this book
  - Who this book is for
  - Conventions
  - Reader feedback
  - Customer support
    - Downloading the example code
    - Errata
    - Piracy
    - Questions
- 1. Setting Up Panda3D and Configuring Development Tools
  - Introduction
  - Downloading and configuring NetBeans to work with Panda3D
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Configuring Visual Studio 2008 to work with Panda3D
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Understanding Panda3D's runtime configuration options
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - Listing all configuration variables
      - Loading a specific configuration file
      - Embedding configuration data in Python code
  - Setting up the game structure
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Building Panda3D from source code
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
- 2. Creating and Building Scenes
  - Introduction
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Loading terrain
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - Block size
      - Near and far thresholds
  - Loading and attaching sounds to objects
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Creating a scene using C++
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Adding an additional camera
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Inspecting and modifying the scene
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Modifying the scene graph
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - Position
      - Rotation
      - Scale
  - Moving objects based on time
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Controlling actions using intervals
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - Lerp intervals
      - Lerp function interval
      - Interpolation easing
      - Sequences and Parallels
      - Wait interval
  - Making animations fit to intervals
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Making objects follow a predefined path
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Making the camera smoothly follow an object
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Generating geometry at runtime
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - Built in vertex formats
      - Custom vertex formats
      - Primitive types
    - See also
  - Loading data asynchronously
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- 3. Controlling the Renderer
  - Introduction
  - Changing a model's render attributes
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Adding an alpha mask to a texture
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Creating a splitscreen mode
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Controlling the rendering order
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - Cull bin types
      - Default cull bins
      - Adding a cull bin at runtime
      - Adding a cull bin using the configuration file
  - Using multiple displays
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- 4. Scene Effects and Shaders
  - Introduction
  - Adding lights and shadows
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Using light ramps
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Creating particle effects
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - Particle Factories
      - Particle Renderers
      - Particle Emitters
  - Animating textures
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Adding ribbon trails to an object
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more
  - Creating a flashlight effect
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Making objects reflect the scene
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Adding a custom shader generator
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Applying a custom Cg shader
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- 5. Post-Processing and Screen Space Effects
  - Introduction
  - Adding built-in post-processing effects
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Building custom effects
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Adding a scanline and vignette effect
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Adding a color grading effect
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Adding a depth of field effect
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Building a deferred rendering pipeline
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
- 6. 2D Elements and User Interfaces
  - Introduction
  - Rendering text to the screen
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Rendering images to the 2D layer
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Playing a movie file
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Creating an interactive user interface
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - More controls
      - More parameters
  - Making the user interface data-driven using XML
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
- 7. Application Control
  - Introduction
  - Toggling window and fullscreen modes
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Controlling game state
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Decoupling modules using events
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Handling events more elegantly
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Managing recurring tasks
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- 8. Collision Detection and Physics
  - Introduction
  - Using the built-in collision detection system
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - Collision Shapes
      - Collision Handlers
  - Using the built-in physics system
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Using the ODE physics engine
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Using the PhysX physics engine
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Integrating the Bullet physics engine
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- 9. Networking
  - Introduction
  - Downloading a file from a server
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Using assets hosted on a server
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Sending high scores to a server
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Establishing a network connection
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Sending and receiving custom datagrams
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Synchronizing object state between server and client
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- 10. Debugging and Performance
  - Introduction
  - Debugging Python code
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Debugging C++ code
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Using the PStats tool for finding performance bottlenecks
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Improving performance by flattening scenes
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Implementing performance critical code in C++
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- 11. Input Handling
  - Introduction
  - Handling keyboard and mouse input
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Implementing an abstraction layer for supporting multiple input methods
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Handling input from an Xbox 360 controller
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Recording and simulating user input
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Reading audio data from a microphone
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Reading video data from a webcam
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Reading input data from a network
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- 12. Packaging and Distribution
  - Introduction
  - Packing assets into multifiles
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more
      - Updating a subfile
      - Extracting a subfile
      - Encrypting subfiles
      - Creating multifiles on the command line
  - Creating a redistributable game package
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Advanced package creation and hosting
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - Working with modules
      - Creating patches
  - Embedding a game into a website
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Using website and plugin interoperability
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- 13. Connecting Panda3D with Content Creation Tools
  - Introduction
  - Setting up the Blender export plugin
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Exporting models from Blender
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Generating model files programmatically
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Using the "Pview" tool to preview models
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Compressing and converting model files using pzip and egg2bam
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- Index

Titel: Panda3D 1.7 Game Developer's Cookbook. Over 80 recipes for developing 3D games with Panda3D, a full-scale 3D game engine
Autor: Christoph Lang, Reinier de Blois
Originaler Titel: Panda3D 1.7 Game Developer's Cookbook. Over 80 recipes for developing 3D games with Panda3D, a full-scale 3D game engine
ISBN: 9781849512930, 9781849512930
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2011-03-23
Format: E-book
Artikelkennung: e_3ckm
Verleger: Packt Publishing

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