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Game Physics Cookbook

You're reading from Game Physics Cookbook

Product type Book

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787123663

Pages 480 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Gabor Szauer

Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Game Physics Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewer

Acknowledgements

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Vectors

2. Matrices

3. Matrix Transformations

4. 2D Primitive Shapes

5. 2D Collisions

6. 2D Optimizations

7. 3D Primitive Shapes

8. 3D Point Tests

9. 3D Shape Intersections

10. 3D Line Intersections

11. Triangles and Meshes

12. Models and Scenes

13. Camera and Frustum

14. Constraint Solving

15. Manifolds and Impulses

16. Springs and Joints

Advanced Topics

Index

Chapter 8. 3D Point Tests

Now that we have some 3D primitives defined, it's time to implement some simple point tests for them. In this chapter, we are going to implement the following point-related test functions:

Point contained in sphere
Closest point on sphere
Point contained in AABB
Closest point on AABB
Point contained in OBB
Closest point on OBB
Point on surface of plane
Closest point on plane
Point on line segment
Closest point along line
Point on ray
Closest point along ray

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Authors (1)

Gabor Szauer

Gabor Szauer has been making games since 2010. He graduated from Full Sail University in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in game development. Gabor maintains an active Twitter presence, and maintains a programming-oriented game development blog. Gabor's previously published books are Game Physics Programming Cookbook and Lua Quick Start Guide, both published by Packt.

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