Game programming gems 6 / edited by Michael Dickheiser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dickheiser, Michael, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Programming.

Video games.

Computer graphics.

Physical Description:

xl, 695 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Game programming gems six

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Charles River Media, 2006.

Summary:

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "portable source code and demos you can implement easily into your own projects, DirectX SDK 9, GLUT 3.7, and GLEW 1.3.3."--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

Section 1 General Programming 1

1.1 Lock-Free Algorithms / Toby Jones 5

1.2 Utilizing Multicore Processors with OpenMP / Pete Isensee 17

1.3 Computer Vision in Games Using the OpenCV Library / Arnau Ramisa, Enric Vergara, Enric Marti 25

1.4 Geographic Grid Registration of Game Objects / Roger Smith 39

1.5 BSP Techniques / Octavian Marius Chincisan 49

1.6 Closest-String Matching Algorithm / James Boer 69

1.7 Using CppUnit To Implement Unit Testing / Blake Madden 79

1.8 Fingerprinting Pre-Release Builds To Deter and Detect Piracy / Steve Rabin 97

1.9 Faster File Loading with Access-Based File Reordering / David L. Koenig 103

1.10 Stay in the Game: Asset Hotloading for Fast Iteration / Noel Llopis, Charles Nicholson 109

Section 2 Mathematics and Physics 117

2.1 Floating-Point Tricks / Chris Lomont 121

2.2 GPU Computation in Projective Space Using Homogeneous Coordinates / Vaclav Skala 137

2.3 Solving Systems of Linear Equations Using the Cross Product / Anders Hast 149

2.4 Sequence Indexing for Game Development / Palem GopalaKrishna 161

2.5 Exact Buoyancy for Polyhedra / Erin Catto 175

2.6 Real-Time Particle-Based Fluid Simulation with Rigid Body Interaction / Takashi Amada 189

Section 3 Artificial Intelligence 207

3.1 Applying Model-Based Decision-Making Methods to Games: Applying the Locust AI Engine to Quake III / Armand Prieditis, Mukesh Dulal 211

3.2 Achieving Coordination with Autonomous NPCs / Diego Garces 223

3.3 Behavior-Based Robotic Architectures for Games / Hugo Pinto, Luis Otavio Alvares 235

3.4 Constructing a Goal-Oriented Robot for Unreal Tournament Using Fuzzy Sensors, Finite-State Machines, and Extended Behavior Networks / Hugo Pinto, Luis Otavio Alvares 245

3.5 A Goal-Oriented Unreal Bot: Building a Game Agent with Goal-Oriented Behavior and Simple Personality Using Extended Behavior Networks / Hugo Pinto, Luis Otavio Alvares 259

3.6 Short-Term Memory Modeling Using a Support Vector Machine / Julien Hamaide 273

3.7 Using the Quantified Judgment Model for Engagement Analysis / Michael Ramsey 283

3.8 Designing a Multilayer, Pluggable Al Engine / Sebastien Schertenleib 291

3.9 A Fuzzy-Control Approach to Managing Scene Complexity / Gabriyel Wong, Jialiang Wang 307

Section 4 Scripting and Data-Driven Systems 317

4.1 Scripting Language Survey / Diego Garces 323

4.2 Binding C/C++ Objects to Lua / Waldemar Celes, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Roberto Ierusalimschy 341

4.3 Programming Advanced Control Mechanisms with Lua Coroutines / Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Waldemar Celes, Roberto Ierusalimschy 357

4.4 Managing High-Level Script Execution Within Multithreaded Environments / Sebastien Schertenleib 371

4.5 Exposing Actor Properties Using Nonintrusive Proxies / Matthew Campbell, Curtiss Murphy 383

4.6 Game Object Component System / Chris Stoy 393

Section 5 Graphics 405

5.1 Synthesis of Realistic Idle Motion for Interactive Characters / Arjan Egges, Thomas Di Giacomo, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann 409

5.2 Spatial Partitioning Using an Adaptive Binary Tree / Martin Fleisz 423

5.3 Enhanced Object Culling with (Almost) Oriented Bounding Boxes / Ben St. John 437

5.4 Skin Splitting for Optimal Rendering / Dominic Filion 449

5.5 GPU Terrain Rendering / Harald Vistnes 461

5.6 Interactive Fluid Dynamics and Rendering on the GPU / Frank Luna 473

5.7 Fast Per-Pixel Lighting with Many Lights / Frank Puig Placeres 489

5.8 Rendering Road Signs Sharply / Jorn Loviscach 501

5.9 Practical Sky Rendering for Games / Aurelio Reis 517

5.10 High Dynamic Range Rendering Using OpenGL Frame Buffer Objects / Allen Sherrod 529

Section 6 Audio 537

6.1 Real-Time Sound Generation from Deformable Meshes / Marq Singer 541

6.2 A Lightweight Generator for Real-Time Sound Effects / Frank Luchs 549

6.3 Real-Time Mixing Busses / James Boer 555

6.4 Potentially Audible Sets / Dominic Filion 561

6.5 A Cheap Doppler Effect / Julien Hamaide 573

6.6 Faking Real-Time DSP Effects / Robert Sparks 583

Section 7 Network and Multiplayer 589

7.1 Dynamically Adaptive Streaming of 3D Data for Animated Characters / Thomas Di Giacomo, HyungSeok Kim, Stephane Garchery, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Chris Joslin 593

7.2 Complex Systems-Based High-Level Architecture for Massively Multiplayer Games / Viknashvaran Narayanasamy, Kok-Wai Wong, Chun Che Fung 607

7.3 Generating Globally Unique Identifiers for Game Objects / Yongha Kim 623

7.4 Massively Multiplayer Online Prototype Utilizing Second Life for Game Concept Prototyping / Peter A. Smith 629

7.5 Reliable Peer-to-Peer Gaming Connections Penetrating NAT / Larry Shi 641.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1584504501

OCLC:

63164978