Game Programming Gems 6 (Game Development Series) - Hardcover

Dickheiser, Mike

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ISBN 10: 1584504501 ISBN 13: 9781584504504

Publisher: Charles River Media, 2006

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Game Programming Gems 6 Filled with insights from game industry pros, this volume provides tools and techniques for making the best games possible. It covers the core areas of graphics, programming, networking, AI, physics, and audio. It also provides coverage of game testing, wireless gaming, and scripting. Full description

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Foreword Preface About the Cover Image Contributor Bios SECTION 1 GENERAL PROGRAMMING Introduction 1.1 Lock-Free Algorithms 1.2 Utilizing Multicore Processors with OpenMP 1.3 Computer Vision in Games Using the OpenCV Library 1.4 Geographic Grid Registration of Game Objects 1.5 BSP Techniques 1.6 Closest-String Matching Algorithm 1.7 Using CppUnit To Implement Unit Testing 1.8 Fingerprinting Pre-Release Builds To Deter and Detect Piracy 1.9 Faster File Loading with Access-Based File Reordering 1.10 Stay in the Game: Asset Hotloading for Fast Iteration SECTION 2 MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS Introduction 2.1 Floating-Point Tricks 2.2 GPU Computation in Projective Space Using Homogeneous Coordinates 2.3 Solving Systems of Linear Equations Using the Cross Product 2.4 Efficient Sequence Indexing for Game Development 2.5 Exact Buoyancy for Polyhedra 2.6 Real-Time Particle-Based Fluid Simulation with Rigid Body Interaction SECTION 3 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Introduction 3.1 Applying Model-Based Decision-Making Methods to Games: Applying the Locust AI Engine to Quake III 3.2 Achieving Coordination with Autonomous NPCs 3.3 Behavior-Based Robotic Architectures for Games 3.4 Constructing a Goal-Oriented Robot for Unreal Tournament Using Fuzzy Sensors, Finite-State Machines, and Behavior Networks 3.5 A Goal-Oriented Unreal Bot: Building a Game Agent with Goal-Oriented Behavior and Simple Personality Using Extended Behavior Networks 3.6 Short-Term Memory Modeling Using a Support Vector Machine 3.7 Using the Quantified Judgment Model for Engagement Analysis 3.8 Designing a Multilayer, Pluggable AI Engine 3.9 A Fuzzy-Control Approach to Managing Scene Complexity SECTION 4 SCRIPTING AND DATA-DRIVEN SYSTEMS Introduction 4.1 Scripting Language Survey 4.2 Binding C/C++ Objects to Lua 4.3 Programming Advanced Control Mechanisms with Lua Coroutines 4.4 Managing High-Level Script Execution Within Multithreaded Environments 4.5 Exposing Actor Properties Using Nonintrusive Proxies 4.6 Game Object Component System SECTION 5 GRAPHICS Introduction 5.1 Synthesis of Realistic Idle Motion for Interactive Characters 5.2 Spatial Partitioning Using an Adaptive Binary Tree 5.3 Enhanced Object Culling with (Almost) Oriented Bounding Boxes 5.4 Skin Splitting for Optimal Rendering 5.5 GPU Terrain Rendering 5.6 Interactive Fluid Dynamics and Rendering on the GPU 5.7 Fast Per-Pixel Lighting with Many Lights 5.8 Rendering Road Signs Sharply 5.9 Practical Sky Rendering for Games 5.10 High Dynamic Range Rendering Using OpenGL Frame Buffer Objects SECTION 6 AUDIO Introduction 6.1 Real-Time Sound Generation from Deformable Meshes 6.2 A Lightweight Generator for Real-Time Sound Effects 6.3 Real-Time Mixing Busses 6.4 Potentially Audible Sets 6.5 A Cheap Doppler Effect 6.6 Faking Real-Time DSP Effects SECTION 7 NETWORK AND MULTIPLAYER Introduction 7.1 Dynamically Adaptive Streaming of 3D Data for Animated Characters 7.2 Complex Systems Based High-Level Architecture for Massively Multiplayer Games 7.3 Generating Globally Unique Identifiers for Game Objects 7.4 Massively Multiplayer Online Prototype Utilizing Second Life for Game Concept Prototyping 7.5 Reliable Peer-to-Peer Gaming Connections Penetrating NAT About the CD-ROM Index

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"Game Programming Gems 6" is the latest all new volume in this critically acclaimed series. Filled with insights from game industry pros, this volume provides faster, better tools and techniques for making the best games possible. These techniques have been used in today's most successful games and will help solve many of the challenges facing the development team. Not only do they help the team avoid redundancy and save valuable programming hours, but they push the team to approach problems from a new perspective and develop their own tools to prevent future issues. As with all previous volumes, the core areas of graphics, programming, networking, AI, physics, and audio are thoroughly covered and in this volume, new coverage of game testing, wireless gaming, and scripting has also been added. "Game Programming Gems 6" is an indispensable resource that every developer must have on their shelves!

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• Publisher: Charles River Media
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1584504501
• ISBN 13: 9781584504504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 695