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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to add ImGui to the application to create a simple, widget-based UI, enabling you to output valuable data from your application, such as the FPS counter and various timings of code passages and functions. You also learned how to use ImGui widgets as input elements to control your application using a mouse.

A large variety of ImGui widgets is available already in the official GitHub repository, and many more have been created and contributed by users around the world. So, if you need a widget for some kind of UI task, there’s a chance such a widget is already available and waiting to be used.

In the next chapter, we take a closer look at vector and matrix data types and the operations between them using GLM. Having the operations at hand, without the need to define them for all data types, makes our lives much easier. We will peek into the mathematical background of some operations to understand what happens in the code and in the...

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