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Mastering C++ Game Animation Programming

You're reading from   Mastering C++ Game Animation Programming Enhance your skills with advanced game animation techniques in C++, OpenGL, and Vulkan

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835881927
Length 544 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Dunsky is an educated electronics technician, game developer, and console porting programmer with more than 20 years of programming experience. He started at the age of 14 with BASIC, adding along the way Assembly language, C, C++, Java, Python, VHDL, OpenGL, GLSL, and Vulkan to his portfolio. During his career, he has also gained extensive knowledge of virtual machines, server operation, infrastructure automation, and other DevOps topics. Michael holds a master of science degree in computer science from the Fern University in Hagen, focusing on computer graphics, parallel programming, and software systems.
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Preface 1. Part 1: Populating the World with the Game Character Models
2. Working with Open Asset Import Library FREE CHAPTER 3. Moving Animation Calculations from CPU to GPU 4. Adding a Visual Selection 5. Part 2: Transforming the Model Viewer into an Animation Editor
6. Enhancing Application Handling 7. Saving and Loading the Configuration 8. Extending Camera Handling 9. Part 3: Tuning Character Animations
10. Enhancing Animation Controls 11. An Introduction to Collision Detection 12. Adding Behavior and Interaction 13. Advanced Animation Blending 14. Part 4: Enhancing Your Virtual World
15. Loading a Game Map 16. Advanced Collision Detection 17. Adding Simple Navigation 18. Creating Immersive Interactive Worlds 19. Other Books You May Enjoy
20. Index

Technical requirements

We will need the application code from Chapter 2: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Cpp-Game-Animation-Programming.

The example source code for this chapter can be found in the folder chapter03, subfolder 01_opengl_selection for OpenGL, and 02_vulkan_selection for Vulkan.

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Michael Dunsky is an electronics engineer, console porting programmer, and game developer with more than 20 years of programming experience. He started with BASIC at the young age of 14 and expanded his portfolio over the years to include assembly language, C, C++, Java, Python, VHDL, OpenGL, GLSL, and Vulkan. During his career, he also gained extensive knowledge of Linux, virtual machines, server operation, and infra-structure automation. Michael holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Sci-ence from the FernUniversität in Hagen with a focus on computer graphics, parallel programming, and software systems.
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