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You're reading from C++ Game Development By Example Learn to build games and graphics with SFML, OpenGL, and Vulkan using C++ programming

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789535303

Length 420 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

OpenGL

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Siddharth Shekar

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. C++ Concepts FREE CHAPTER

Program basics
Summary

2. Mathematics and Graphics Concepts

3D coordinate system
Vectors
Matrices
GLM OpenGL mathematics
OpenGL data types
Space transformations
Render pipeline
Summary

3. Setting Up Your Game

An overview of SFML
Downloading SFML and configuring Visual Studio
Creating a window
Drawing shapes
Adding sprites
Keyboard input
Handing player movement
Summary

4. Creating Your Game

Starting afresh
Creating the hero class
Creating the enemy class
Adding enemies
Creating a rocket class
Collision detection
Summary

5. Finalizing Your Game

Finishing the Gameloop and adding scoring
Adding text
Adding audio
Adding player animations
Summary

6. Getting Started with OpenGL

What is OpenGL?
Creating our first OpenGL project
Summary

7. Building on the Game Objects

Creating a MeshRenderer class
Creating the TextureLoader class
Adding Bullet Physics
Adding rigid bodies
Summary

8. Enhancing Your Game with Collision, Loop, and Lighting

Adding a RigidBody name
Adding an enemy
Moving the enemy
Checking collision
Adding keyboard controls
Game loop and scoring
Adding lighting
Summary

9. Getting Started with Vulkan

About Vulkan
Configuring Visual Studio
Vulkan validation layers and extensions
Vulkan instances
The Vulkan Context class
Creating the window surface
Picking a physical device and creating a logical device
Summary

10. Preparing the Clear Screen

Creating the SwapChain
Creating the Renderpass
Using render targets and Framebuffers
Creating CommandBuffer
Begining and ending Renderpass
Creating the clear screen
Summary

11. Creating Object Resources

Updating the Mesh class for Vulkan
Creating the ObjectBuffers class
Creating the Descriptor class
Creating the SPIR-V shader binary
Summary

12. Drawing Vulkan Objects

Preparing the graphics pipeline class
Object renderer class
Changes to the VulkanContext class
Camera class
Drawing the object
Synchronizing the object
References
Summary

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