Game programming using Qt 5 beginner's guide : create amazing games with Qt 5, C++, and Qt Quick / Pavel Strakhov, Witold Wysota, Lorenz Haas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strakhov, Pavel, author.

Wysota, Witold, author.

Haas, Lorenz, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Programming.

Video games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (697 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham ; Mumbai : Packt, [2018]

Summary:

Qt is the leading cross-platform toolkit for all significant desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms and is becoming popular by the day, especially on mobile and embedded devices. It's a powerful tool that perfectly fits the needs of game developers. This book will help you learn the basics of Qt and will equip you with the necessary toolsets.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction to Qt

A journey through time

The cross-platform programming

Supported platforms

GUI scalability

Qt versions

Structure of Qt framework

Qt Essentials

Qt Add-ons

qmake

Modern C++ standards

Choosing the right license

An open source license

A commercial license

Summary

Chapter 2: Installation

Installing the Qt SDK

Time for action - Installing Qt using an online installer

What just happened?

Qt Creator

Qt Creator's modes

Setting up compilers, Qt versions, and kits

Time for action - Loading an example project

Qt documentation

Time for action - Running the Affine Transformations project

Chapter 3: Qt GUI Programming

Creating GUI in Qt

Time for action - Creating a Qt Widgets project

Design mode interface

Time for action - Adding widgets to the form

Layouts

Time for action - Adding a layout to the form

Signals and slots

Creating signals and slots

Connecting signals and slots

Old connect syntax

Signal and slot access specifiers

Time for action - Receiving the button-click signal from the form

Automatic slot connection and its drawbacks

Time for action - Changing the texts on the labels from the code

Creating a widget for the tic-tac-toe board

Choosing between designer forms and plain C++ classes

Time for action - Creating a game board widget

Automatic deletion of objects

Time for action - Functionality of a tic-tac-toe board

Time for action - Reacting to the game board's signals

Advanced form editor usage

Time for action - Designing the game configuration dialog.

Accelerators and label buddies

The tab order

Time for action - Public interface of the dialog

Polishing the application

Size policies

Protecting against invalid input

Main menu and toolbars

Time for action - Creating a menu and a toolbar

The Qt resource system

Time for action - Adding icons to the project

Have a go hero - Extending the game

Pop quiz

Chapter 4: Custom 2D Graphics with Graphics View

Graphics View architecture

Time for action - Creating a project with a Graphics View

Coordinate systems

The item's coordinate system

The scene's coordinate system

The viewport's coordinate system

Origin point of the transformation

Have a go hero - Applying multiple transformations

Parent-child relationship between items

Time for action - Using child items

Have a go hero - Implementing the custom rectangle as a class

Conversions between coordinate systems

Overview of functionality

Standard items

Anti-aliasing

Pens and brushes

Item selection

Keyboard focus in graphics scene

Painter paths

Time for action - Adding path items to the scene

Z-order of items

Ignoring transformations

Time for action - Adding text to a custom rectangle

Finding items by position

Showing specific areas of the scene

Saving a scene to an image file

Have a go hero - Rendering only specific parts of a scene

Custom items

Time for action - Creating a sine graph project

Time for action - Creating a graphics item class

Events

Time for action - Implementing the ability to scale the scene

Time for action - Taking the zoom level into account

Time for action - Reacting to an item's selection state.

What just happened?

Time for action - Event handling in a custom item

Time for action - Implementing the ability to create and delete elements with mouse

Time for action - Changing the item's size

Have a go hero - Extending the item's functionality

Widgets inside Graphics View

Optimization

A binary space partition tree

Caching the item's paint function

Optimizing the view

OpenGL in the Graphics View

Chapter 5: Animations in Graphics View

The jumping elephant or how to animate the scene

The game play

Time for action - Creating an item for Benjamin

The playing field

Time for action - Making Benjamin move

Parallax scrolling

Time for action - Moving the background

Have a go hero - Adding new background layers

The Animation framework

Properties

Time for action - Adding a jump animation

Property animations

Time for action - Using animations to move items smoothly

Have a go hero - Letting the item handle Benjamin's jump

Time for action - Keeping multiple animations in sync

Chaining multiple animations

Adding gamepad support

Working with gamepads in Qt

Time for action - Handling gamepad events

Item collision detection

Time for action - Making the coins explode

Finishing the game

A third way of animation

Chapter 6: Qt Core Essentials

Text handling

String encodings

QByteArray and QString

Using other encodings

Basic string operations

The string search and lookup

Dissecting strings

Converting between numbers and strings

Internationalization

Using arguments in strings

Regular expressions

Time for action - A simple quiz game.

Extracting information out of a string

Finding all pattern occurrences

Containers

Main container types

Convenience containers

Allowed item types

Implicit sharing

Pointer invalidation

Unnecessary allocation

Range-based for and Qt foreach macro

Data storage

Files and devices

Traversing directories

Reading and writing files

Devices

Time for action - Implementing a device to encrypt data

Have a go hero - A GUI for the Caesar cipher

Text streams

Binary streams

Time for action - Serialization of a custom structure

XML streams

Time for action - Implementing an XML parser for player data

Have a go hero - An XML serializer for player data

QVariant

QSettings

Settings hierarchy

Customizing the settings location and format

JSON files

Time for action - The player data JSON serializer

Time for action - Implementing a JSON parser

Chapter 7: Networking

QNetworkAccessManager

Setting up a local HTTP server

Preparing a URL for testing

Time for action - Downloading a file

Have a go hero - Extending the basic file downloader

Single network manager per application

Time for action - Displaying a proper error message

Downloading files over FTP

Downloading files in parallel

The finished signal

Time for action - Writing the OOP conform code using QSignalMapper

The error signal

The readyRead signal

Time for action - Showing the download progress

Using a proxy

Connecting to Google, Facebook, Twitter, and co.

Time for action - Using Google's Distance Matrix API.

Time for action - Constructing the query

Time for action - Parsing the server's reply

Have a go hero - Choosing XML as the reply's format

Controlling the connectivity state

QNetworkConfigurationManager

QNetworkConfiguration

QNetworkSession

QNetworkInterface

Communicating between games

Time for action - Realizing a simple chat program

The server - QTcpServer

Time for action - Setting up the server

Time for action - Reacting on a new pending connection

Time for action - Forwarding a new message

Have a go hero - Using QSignalMapper

Time for action - Detecting a disconnect

The client

Time for action - Setting up the client

Time for action - Receiving text messages

Time for action - Sending text messages

Have a go hero - Extending the chat server and client

Synchronous network operations

Using UDP

Time for action - Sending a text via UDP

Have a go hero - Connecting players of the Benjamin game

Chapter 8: Custom Widgets

Raster and vector graphics

Raster painting

Painter attributes

Drawing operations

Creating a custom widget

Time for action - Custom-painted widgets

Time for action - Transforming the viewport

Time for action - Drawing an oscillogram

Time for action - Making oscillograms selectable

Have a go hero - Reacting only to the left mouse button

Touch events

Working with images

Loading

Modifying

Painting

Painting text

Static text

Optimizing widget painting

Time for action - Optimizing oscillogram drawing

Have a go hero - Caching the oscillogram in a pixmap

Implementing a chess game.

Time for action - Developing the game architecture.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1035515943