GAME PROGRAMMING IN C++

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Welcome to the exciting world of game programming! If you''re already familiar with the C++ programming language and want to learn how to program games, this book is for you. Game Programming in C++: Start to Finish will help you learn how to turn your own game fantasies into playable realities!Over the course of the book, you''ll learn the popular techniques and practices behind today''s games. Not only will you add a lot of theory to your game programming toolkit, but you''ll also create a small basic game from scratch - SuperAsteriodArena. While you''ll focus on using the SDL and the OpenGL libraries to learn game programming, you''ll also learn the essential Windows principles that you''ll need to create just about any kind of game with any other API such as DirectX.This easy-to-follow book takes current game programming information and filters it down to a practical level. Each chapter and subsection builds upon previous chapters and topics in a tutorial format, allowing you to progress at your own pace. As you work through the book, you''ll build the SuperAsteriodArena game, beginning with engine creation and 3D programming with SDL and OpenGL. From there you''ll move on to animation effects, audio, collision detection, networking, and finalizing the game. A variety of tools are used throughout, including Visual Studio and OpenGL, SDL, Autodesk 3ds Max, and the Audacity sound tool.

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Acknowledgments	p. xix
Preface	p. xxi
Game Technologies	p. 1
Common License Agreements	p. 1
Some Helpful Technologies	p. 3
Concurrent Versioning System (CVS)	p. 7
Using CVS	p. 9
Creating the SuperAsteroidArena Project	p. 9
Introduction to Doxygen	p. 14
Introduction to InnoSetup	p. 16
The Standard Template Library	p. 23
Std::string	p. 23
Std::vector	p. 24
Std::map	p. 25
Chapter Exercises	p. 27
Summary	p. 27
Design Fundamentals	p. 29
What Is a Game Design?	p. 29
Classic Waterfall Software Design	p. 30
Iterative Software Design	p. 31
Principles of Agile Design	p. 32
When to Use Agile	p. 33
Introduction to the Unified Modeling Language	p. 33
Basic Class Notation	p. 34
Visibility Notation	p. 35
Comment/Note Notation	p. 35
Modeling Class Relationships	p. 36
Generalization Relationship	p. 37
Software Reusability	p. 38
Code Reuse	p. 38
Design Reuse	p. 38
Anatomy of a Game	p. 44
Initialization Phase	p. 44
Process Phase	p. 45
Destruction Phase	p. 46
The SuperAsteroidArena Design Document	p. 46
Drafting a Project Overview	p. 46
What Type or Genre of Game Is It?	p. 47
Who Is Your Audience?	p. 48
Why Make the Game?	p. 49
What Do You Want To See?	p. 49
What Does It Offer?	p. 49
Draft an Initial List of Timeboxes	p. 50
Who Is Involved?	p. 51
Budget Concerns	p. 51
Demo versus Registered Features	p. 52
Chapter Exercises	p. 53
Summary	p. 53
Introduction to SDL and Windows	p. 55
Introduction to the Simple DirectMedia Layer	p. 55
Why Use SDL Instead of DirectX?	p. 56
SDL "Hello World"	p. 56
Creating the EngineCore	p. 60
Initializing SDL	p. 61
The SDL/Windows Event Queue	p. 62
Cleaning Up SDL	p. 64
Big Endian versus Little Endian	p. 65
Adding the FileLogger	p. 65
Using Windows Initialization Files	p. 67
The Component Object Model	p. 69
The IUnknown Object	p. 71
Introduction to Dynamically Linked Libraries	p. 73
Chapter Exercises	p. 74
Summary	p. 75
Introduction to the Peon Engine	p. 77
Basic Engine Structure	p. 77
Introduction to Peon	p. 79
Introduction to Some Peon Components	p. 80
Building Upon the Foundation	p. 82
Managing State Information	p. 82
Working on the First Timebox	p. 83
Creating the New Instances of IApplicationState	p. 85
Timebox Evaluation	p. 86
Chapter Exercises	p. 86
Summary	p. 87
Graphics Programming Mathematics	p. 89
The Cartesian Coordinate System	p. 89
Fixed Function Geometry Pipeline	p. 90
Introduction to Vectors	p. 92
Common Vector Operations	p. 93
Introduction to Matrices	p. 95
The OpenGL Matrix Stacks	p. 95
Identity Matrix	p. 96
Matrix Addition and Subtraction	p. 97
Matrix Multiplication	p. 98
Coordinate Transformations	p. 99
Scaling Transform	p. 99
Translation Transform	p. 99
Rotation Transform	p. 100
Matrix Concatenation	p. 102
Basic Camera/View Orientation	p. 103
Projection Transformations	p. 104
Create a Basic Camera	p. 105
Gimbal Lock	p. 106
Quaternions	p. 107
Basic Quaternion Algorithm	p. 108
Chapter Exercises	p. 109
Summary	p. 109
Creating an OpenGL Renderer	p. 111
How Does OpenGL Operate?	p. 112
OpenGL and Installable Client Drivers (ICDs)	p. 112
Understanding the OpenGL Architecture	p. 113
Defining the SceneRenderer	p. 114
Loading the OpenGL Device Using SDL	p. 116
Working with OpenGL Surfaces	p. 118
Cathode Ray Tube Monitors and Phosphors	p. 119
Clearing the Device	p. 120
Flipping the Device	p. 121
Unloading the Device	p. 121
The OpenGL State Machine	p. 122
Saving and Restoring State Information	p. 122
Rendering Primitives	p. 123
Rendering Vertices with the SceneRenderer	p. 125
Texture Mapping	p. 129
Creating an OpenGL Texture	p. 129
Using the Texture Map	p. 133
Using the SceneTexture	p. 133
Rendering Text	p. 135
OpenGL Display Lists	p. 135
Storing the Font Characters	p. 136
The SceneFont in Action	p. 138
Printing Text	p. 139
Cleaning Up	p. 139
Rendering a Simple Cube	p. 140
Moving the Cube	p. 142
Rendering the Cube	p. 142
Working with Fog	p. 143
BasicFog Demo	p. 144
Chapter Exercises	p. 144
Summary	p. 145
More OpenGL Techniques	p. 147
Lighting and Materials	p. 147
Defining Surface Normals	p. 149
Adding Light Support to the SceneRenderer	p. 150
Implementing Light Support in SceneRenderer	p. 152
Sample Demonstration	p. 154
Alpha-Blending and Transparencies	p. 154
Sample Demonstration	p. 155
Vertex Arrays	p. 156
The OpenGL Extension Mechanism	p. 158
Multitexturing	p. 160
Working with the Texture Units	p. 161
Chapter Exercises	p. 162
Summary	p. 163
Scene Geometry Management	p. 165
The Depth Buffer	p. 166
View Frustum Culling	p. 166
Basic Scene Hierarchy Management	p. 170
Sorting Rendering States	p. 172
Animation Rendering	p. 172
Introduction to the Peon Scene Graph	p. 173
Scene Graph States	p. 175
Scene Graph Passes	p. 175
Scene Graph Traversal	p. 176
Binary Space Partitioning Trees	p. 176
Octree Data Structure	p. 176
Building Your Octree	p. 177
The Occluder Query	p. 177
Occlusion Query Algorithm	p. 179
Cleanup	p. 180
Chapter Exercises	p. 180
Summary	p. 181
Graphics Timebox	p. 183
Timebox Requirements	p. 183
The LogoState	p. 184
The MainMenuState	p. 184
Loading Common Data	p. 185
Rendering the Starfield	p. 186
Rendering Text to the Player	p. 187
Creating the Graphical User Interface	p. 187
The ActiveState	p. 188
Timebox Evaluation	p. 188
Chapter Exercises	p. 189
Summary	p. 189
Working with Input Devices	p. 191
Introduction to Input Using SDL	p. 191
Using the Keyboard	p. 192
Using the Mouse	p. 193
Using the Joystick	p. 195
Joystick Enumeration	p. 195
Opening a Joystick	p. 196
Processing Joystick Events	p. 196
Cleaning up the Joystick	p. 198
Adding Input Support to Peon	p. 198
Chapter Exercises	p. 200
Summary	p. 200
Working With Sound	p. 201
Sound Mechanics	p. 201
Digitized Sound	p. 202
Sound Layers	p. 202
Introduction to SDL_Mixer	p. 203
Working with Audio Music Data	p. 203
Cleaning Up	p. 206
Working with Audio Sound Effects Data	p. 206
Sound Effect Playback	p. 207
Cleaning Up	p. 208
Introduction to OpenAL	p. 208
Intializing the OpenAL Device Context	p. 209
Loading Sound Effects	p. 209
Working with the Source Object	p. 210
Positioning the Listener Object	p. 212
Playing the Sound	p. 213
Stopping the Sound	p. 213
Shutting Down the OpenAL Context	p. 213
Playing Ogg-Vorbis Data with OpenAL	p. 214
Playing the Ogg Buffer	p. 216
Chapter Exercises	p. 216
Summary	p. 217
Input and Sound Timebox	p. 219
Timebox Requirements	p. 219
Required Input Events	p. 220
Rotating the Player's Ship	p. 221
Activating the Player's Engines	p. 222
Using the AudioEngine	p. 223
Loading Sounds	p. 224
Playing Sounds	p. 225
Unloading Sounds	p. 225
Timebox Evaluation	p. 226
Chapter Exercises	p. 226
Summary	p. 226
Collision Detection and Physics Techniques	p. 227
Prioritize Speed	p. 227
Axis-Aligned Bounding Box Detection	p. 228
Bounding Sphere Collision Detection	p. 230
Plane Collisions	p. 231
Collision of Plane versus AABB	p. 232
Ray Collisions	p. 232
Collision of Plane versus Ray	p. 233
Implementing Physics	p. 234
Using the neSimulator	p. 235
Working with Geometry	p. 237
Running the Simulation with Tokamak	p. 238
Rendering the Geometry	p. 238
Cleaning Up	p. 239
Chapter Exercises	p. 240
Summary	p. 240
Introduction to Networking	p. 241
Networking Basics	p. 241
Peer-to-Peer	p. 242
Client-Server	p. 243
TCP versus UDP	p. 244
DirectPlay and Winsock	p. 245
SDL_Net	p. 246
Starting a Basic Server	p. 247
Starting a Basic Client	p. 250
Sending and Receiving Data	p. 253
Non-Blocking Sockets	p. 254
Using SDLNet_CheckSockets	p. 254
TCP/IP versus UDP (Part II)	p. 259
Network Address Translation	p. 260
Client-Server Prediction/Authentication	p. 261
Dead-Reckoning	p. 261
Chapter Exercises	p. 261
Summary	p. 262
Networking Timebox	p. 263
Introduction to ReplicaNet	p. 263
Network Topology Design	p. 264
Networking Timebox	p. 264
Making Additions to Peon	p. 265
Creating the NetStream Object	p. 265
Working with Message Types	p. 266
Updating Players	p. 266
Session Hosting/Joining	p. 267
Players Tend to Move Around	p. 268
Players Want to Fire	p. 268
Timebox Evaluation	p. 268
Chapter Exercises	p. 269
Summary	p. 269
Introduction to Models	p. 271
Model Generation	p. 271
Updating the MeshFactory in Peon	p. 272
Creating a 3DS Importer	p. 273
Loading the 3DS Model Data	p. 276
Rendering the Model	p. 277
Cleaning Up	p. 279
Model Animation	p. 279
The MD3 File Format	p. 280
The AnimatedMeshFactory	p. 284
Introduction to Collada	p. 284
Chapter Exercises	p. 285
Summary	p. 285
Animation and Special Effects	p. 287
Billboarding	p. 287
Understanding the View Matrix (Recap)	p. 288
Extracting the Vectors	p. 288
Skyboxes (Environment Mapping)	p. 291
Object Picking/Selection	p. 294
Particle Systems	p. 298
Updating the Emitter	p. 300
Rendering the Emitter	p. 301
Particle System II: Point Sprites	p. 302
Billboard Animation	p. 305
Loading New Frames	p. 306
Updating Frames	p. 307
Creating a Shockwave	p. 308
Initializing the Shockwave	p. 309
Updating the Shockwave	p. 310
Rendering the Shockwave	p. 311
Taking a Screen Shot	p. 312
Chapter Exercises	p. 314
Summary	p. 315
Introduction to the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)	p. 317
Some History of Shading Languages	p. 318
Cg	p. 319
The OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)	p. 319
The Vertex Processor	p. 320
The Fragment Processor	p. 321
GLSL Data Types	p. 321
Shader Inputs and Outputs	p. 322
Built-In Types	p. 322
OpenGL Shading Language Syntax	p. 323
Checking for Shader Support	p. 325
Loading the Shader Source	p. 327
Creating a Shader Program	p. 328
The Shader InfoLog	p. 329
Uniform and Attribute Variables	p. 330
Rendering with Shaders	p. 330
Shader Object Cleanup	p. 331
Shader Validation Using GLSLvalidate	p. 331
Chapter Exercises	p. 332
Summary	p. 333
Introduction to Scripting	p. 335
Introduction to Scripting	p. 335
Introduction to Lua	p. 336
Using the Interpreter	p. 338
A Simple Script	p. 339
A Simple Script File	p. 340
Introducing Luac	p. 341
Lua Stack	p. 341
Calling a Lua Function	p. 342
Using Lua to Position Objects	p. 343
Updating the Object Position	p. 344
Chapter Exercises	p. 345
Summary	p. 345
Polish Timebox	p. 347
Timebox Goals	p. 347
Adding Scripting Support	p. 348
Adding Shader Support	p. 349
Timebox Evaluation	p. 350
Chapter Exercises	p. 350
Summary	p. 350
Finishing Tips and Tricks	p. 351
Simple Suggestions	p. 351
Game Play Testing	p. 353
Installation Scripts	p. 354
Using InnoSetup	p. 354
Beta Testing or Quality Assurance Testing	p. 356
User Instruction Manual	p. 357
User Manual Checklist	p. 358
Game Asset Compression/Encryption	p. 359
Registration/Patch/Updating Mechanism	p. 359
Final Things to Remember	p. 360
Chapter Exercises	p. 361
Summary	p. 361
Setting Up the SDL and the Compiler	p. 363
Installing SDL	p. 363
Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0	p. 363
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003	p. 364
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 (Beta 2)	p. 364
Debugging Tools	p. 365
OutputDebugString	p. 365
Assert	p. 366
gDEBugger	p. 366
GLSL Validation Tool	p. 367
ASCII Table	p. 369
Windows Vista and OpenGL	p. 371
About the CD-ROM	p. 373
Required Software	p. 374
System Requirements	p. 374
Installation	p. 374
Author Support	p. 374
Further Resources	p. 375
License Specific	p. 375
OpenGL Specific	p. 375
SDL Specific	p. 376
DirectX Specific	p. 376
Audio Programming	p. 376
Game Design	p. 376
Network Programming	p. 377
Scene Graphs	p. 377
Agile Specific	p. 377
Game Portal Sites	p. 378
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