Advanced Game Development with Programmable Graphics Hardware

Written for game programmers and developers, this book covers GPU techniques and supporting applications that are commonly used in games and similar real-time 3D applications. The authors describe the design of programs and systems that can be used to implement games and other applications whose requirements are to render real-time animation sequences (such as walks through complex scenes) at the high quality now available from GPUs. The text is mainly structured around programming in Cg, but also includes techniques (in C++/OpenGl) that do not map onto GPU hardware. The supplementary CD includes implementation for most of the techniques covered in the book and full source code for an advanced render library in Cg/C++/OpenGL. This library can be used to quickly develop 3D games and applications which make use of the advanced features available in current programmable graphics hardware like GPU based animation, lighting, shadows, and special effects. The resources and techniques presented in this book will be of particular interest to both console and computer game programmers and developers.

ISBN 156881240X   DEWEY 794.8151 ISBN13 9781568812403 (What's this?)   DEWEY edition DC22 Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc   Pages 384 Imprint A K Peters   Volumes 001 Format Hardback   Weight (grammes) 929 Publication date 01 Aug 2005   Published in Natick Library of Congress QA76.76   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

1		Introduction and Cg programming overview		1
2		Light/object shaders		29
3		Texture mapping		57
4		Rendering shadows		89
5		Advanced mapping techniques and ray tracing on the GPU		119
6		Common games effects		173
7		Recorded animation : interpolation and management		189
8		Real-time animation		221
9		Character animation - using MoCap and skinning		255
10		Facial animation		297
11		Managing game development		317

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