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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803246529

Length 480 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

OpenGL

Concepts

Animation

Authors (2):

Gabor Szauer

Michael Dunsky

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

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To get the most out of this book

To follow the code snippets and the example code, you should have some experience using C++. Any special or advanced features will be explained, and resources to learn more about these features are included in the chapters when they are first used. However, you should be able to debug simple C++ problems (e.g., by using logging statements).

The code in this book is written for OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.1. These versions are widely supported in modern GPUs; the oldest graphics cards known to work with these API versions are from the Intel HD Graphics 4000 series, created about 10 years ago.

Software used in the book	Operating system requirements
OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.1	Windows or Linux

The example code presented in this book can be compiled on any desktop computer or laptop running a recent version of Windows and Linux. The code has been tested with the following combinations:

Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2022
Windows 10 with Eclipse 2023-06, using GCC from MSYS2 and Ninja as the build system
Ubuntu 22.04 with Eclipse 2023-06, using GCC or Clang
Ubuntu 22.04 compiling on the command line, using GCC or Clang

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

The full source code for the examples is available from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). The chapters in the book contain only excerpts from the code, covering the important parts.