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C++ Game Animation Programming

You're reading from   C++ Game Animation Programming Learn modern animation techniques from theory to implementation using C++, OpenGL, and Vulkan

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246529
Length 480 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Gabor Szauer Gabor Szauer
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Building a Graphics Renderer
2. Chapter 1: Creating the Game Window FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building an OpenGL 4 Renderer 4. Chapter 3: Building a Vulkan Renderer 5. Chapter 4: Working with Shaders 6. Chapter 5: Adding Dear ImGui to Show Valuable Information 7. Part 2: Mathematics Roundup
8. Chapter 6: Understanding Vector and Matrix 9. Chapter 7: A Primer on Quaternions and Splines 10. Part 3: Working with Models and Animations
11. Chapter 8: Loading Models in the glTF Format 12. Chapter 9: The Model Skeleton and Skin 13. Chapter 10: About Poses, Frames, and Clips 14. Chapter 11: Blending between Animations 15. Part 4: Advancing Your Code to the Next Level
16. Chapter 12: Cleaning Up the User Interface 17. Chapter 13: Implementing Inverse Kinematics 18. Chapter 14: Creating Instanced Crowds 19. Chapter 15: Measuring Performance and Optimizing the Code 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding new glTF shaders

Most of the glTF models contain a normal vector for every vertex, in addition to the color and the position we used for the textured box in the Loading and compiling shaders section of Chapter 2. The normal vector will be used to calculate the angle between every triangle and a light vector in the scene. We will then use a simple lighting model to make the final color brighter or darker, depending on the angle between the normal of the vertex and the light source.

To support the changed format for the vertex data, we must create a new pair of shaders. The first shader is the vertex shader. Create a new file, gltf.vert, in the shaders folder:

#version 460 core
layout (location = 0) in vec3 aPos;
layout (location = 1) in vec3 aNormal;
layout (location = 2) in vec2 aTexCoord;

The shader uses GLSL 4.6, like the other renderer shaders in the Loading and compiling shaders section of Chapter 2, and the Fitting the Vulkan nuts and bolts together section of...

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