Mastering C++ Game Animation Programming (eBook)
544 Seiten
Packt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-83588-193-4 (ISBN)
With two decades of programming experience across multiple languages and platforms, expert game developer and console porting programmer Michael Dunsky guides you through the intricacies of character animation programming. This book tackles the common challenges developers face in creating sophisticated, efficient, and visually appealing character animations.
You'll learn how to leverage the Open Asset Import Library for easy 3D model loading and optimize your 3D engine by offloading computations from the CPU to the GPU. The book covers visual selection, extended camera handling, and separating your application into edit and simulation modes. You'll also master configuration storage to progressively build your virtual world piece by piece.
As you develop your engine-like application, you'll implement collision detection, inverse kinematics, and expert techniques to bring your characters to life with realistic visuals and fluid movement. For more advanced animation and character behavior controls, you'll design truly immersive and responsive NPCs, load real game maps, and use navigation algorithms, enabling the instances to roam freely in complex environments.
By the end of this book, you'll be skilled at designing interactive virtual worlds inhabited by lifelike NPCs that exhibit natural, context-aware behaviors.
Develop a compact game engine-like animation application in C++ using OpenGL 4 or Vulkan through hands-on implementation in this part-color guideKey FeaturesLearn how to build a game engine-like skeleton application using a modern graphics APIExplore compute shaders, visual selection, UI creation, visual programming, configuration file handling, collision detection, behavior controls, and moreCreate your own virtual world with naturally acting inhabitantsPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionWith two decades of programming experience across multiple languages and platforms, expert game developer and console porting programmer Michael Dunsky guides you through the intricacies of character animation programming. This book tackles the common challenges developers face in creating sophisticated, efficient, and visually appealing character animations. You ll learn how to leverage the Open Asset Import Library for easy 3D model loading and optimize your 3D engine by offloading computations from the CPU to the GPU. The book covers visual selection, extended camera handling, and separating your application into edit and simulation modes. You ll also master configuration storage to progressively build your virtual world piece by piece. As you develop your engine-like application, you ll implement collision detection, inverse kinematics, and expert techniques to bring your characters to life with realistic visuals and fluid movement. For more advanced animation and character behavior controls, you ll design truly immersive and responsive NPCs, load real game maps, and use navigation algorithms, enabling the instances to roam freely in complex environments. By the end of this book, you ll be skilled at designing interactive virtual worlds inhabited by lifelike NPCs that exhibit natural, context-aware behaviors.What you will learnMaster the basics of the Open Asset Import LibraryAnimate thousands of game charactersExtend ImGui with more advanced control typesImplement simple configuration file handlingExplore collision detection between 3D models and world objectsCombine inverse kinematics and collision detectionWork with state machines, behavior trees, and interactive NPC behaviorsImplement navigation for NPC movement in unknown terrainsWho this book is forThis book is for experienced C++ developers, game programmers, and character animators who already have basic knowledge of character animation but are curious to learn more. The book assumes advanced C++ knowledge and is ideal for those eager to delve into advanced animation techniques and create interactive virtual worlds.]]>
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.3.2025 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design |
| Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge ► C / C++ | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83588-193-9 / 1835881939 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83588-193-4 / 9781835881934 |
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