Panda3d 1.7 Game Developer's Cookbook

封面

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Credits

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Setting Up Panda3D and Configuring Development Tools

Introduction

Downloading and configuring NetBeans to work with Panda3D

Configuring Visual Studio 2008 to work with Panda3D

Understanding Panda3D's runtime configuration options

Setting up the game structure

Building Panda3D from source code

Chapter 2. Creating and Building Scenes

Introduction

Loading terrain

Loading and attaching sounds to objects

Creating a scene using C++

Adding an additional camera

Inspecting and modifying the scene

Modifying the scene graph

Moving objects based on time

Controlling actions using intervals

Making animations fit to intervals

Making objects follow a predefined path

Making the camera smoothly follow an object

Generating geometry at runtime

Loading data asynchronously

Chapter 3. Controlling the Renderer

Introduction

Changing a model's render attributes

Adding an alpha mask to a texture

Creating a splitscreen mode

Controlling the rendering order

Using multiple displays

Chapter 4. Scene Effects and Shaders

Introduction

Adding lights and shadows

Using light ramps

Creating particle effects

Animating textures

Adding ribbon trails to an object

Creating a flashlight effect

Making objects reflect the scene

Adding a custom shader generator

Applying a custom Cg shader

Chapter 5. Post-Processing and Screen Space Effects

Introduction

Adding built-in post-processing effects

Building custom effects

Adding a scanline and vignette effect

Adding a color grading effect

Adding a depth of field effect

Building a deferred rendering pipeline

Chapter 6. 2D Elements and User Interfaces

Introduction

Rendering text to the screen

Rendering images to the 2D layer

Playing a movie file

Creating an interactive user interface

Making the user interface data-driven using XML

Chapter 7. Application Control

Introduction

Toggling window and fullscreen modes

Controlling game state

Decoupling modules using events

Handling events more elegantly

Managing recurring tasks

Chapter 8. Collision Detection and Physics

Introduction

Using the built-in collision detection system

Using the built-in physics system

Using the ODE physics engine

Using the PhysX physics engine

Integrating the Bullet physics engine

Chapter 9. Networking

Introduction

Downloading a file from a server

Using assets hosted on a server

Sending high scores to a server

Establishing a network connection

Sending and receiving custom datagrams

Synchronizing object state between server and client

Chapter 10. Debugging and Performance

Introduction

Debugging Python code

Debugging C++ code

Using the PStats tool for finding performance bottlenecks

Improving performance by flattening scenes

Implementing performance critical code in C++

Chapter 11. Input Handling

Introduction