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C++ Game Development By Example
C++ Game Development By Example

C++ Game Development By Example: Learn to build games and graphics with SFML, OpenGL, and Vulkan using C++ programming

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C++ Game Development By Example

Section 1: Basic Concepts

This section covers some basic concepts of C++ game development. We need to have a good understanding of math, programming, and computer graphics to get ready for the later sections in the book.

The following chapters are in this section:

Chapter 1, C++ Concepts

Chapter 2, Mathematics and Graphics Concepts

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  • Learn how you can build basic 2D and complex 3D games with C++
  • Understand shadows, texturing, lighting, and rendering in 3D game development using OpenGL
  • Uncover modern graphics programming techniques and GPU compute methods using the Vulkan API

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Although numerous languages are currently being used to develop games, C++ remains the standard for fabricating expert libraries and tool chains for game development. This book introduces you to the world of game development with C++. C++ Game Development By Example starts by touching upon the basic concepts of math, programming, and computer graphics and creating a simple side-scrolling action 2D game. You'll build a solid foundation by studying basic game concepts such as creating game loops, rendering 2D game scenes using SFML, 2D sprite creation and animation, and collision detection. The book will help you advance to creating a 3D physics puzzle game using modern OpenGL and the Bullet physics engine. You'll understand the graphics pipeline, which entails creating 3D objects using vertex and index buffers and rendering them to the scene using vertex and fragment shaders. Finally, you'll create a basic project using the Vulkan library that'll help you get to grips with creating swap chains, image views, render passes, and frame buffers for building high-performance graphics in your games. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready with 3 compelling projects created with SFML, the Vulkan API, and OpenGL, and you'll be able take your game and graphics programming skills to the next level.

Who is this book for?

If you’re a developer keen to learn game development with C++ or get up to date with game development, this book is for you. Some knowledge of C++ programming is assumed.

What you will learn

  • Understand shaders and how to write a basic vertex and fragment shader
  • Build a Visual Studio project and add SFML to it
  • Discover how to create sprite animations and a game character class
  • Add sound effects and background music to your game
  • Grasp how to integrate Vulkan into Visual Studio
  • Create shaders and convert them to the SPIR-V binary format

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Table of Contents

17 Chapters
Section 1: Basic Concepts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 1: Basic Concepts
C++ Concepts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
C++ Concepts
Program basics
Summary
Mathematics and Graphics Concepts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Mathematics and Graphics Concepts
3D coordinate systems
Vectors
Matrices
GLM OpenGL mathematics
OpenGL data types
Space transformations
Render pipeline
Summary
Section 2: SFML 2D Game Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: SFML 2D Game Development
Setting Up Your Game Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Setting Up Your Game
An overview of SFML
Downloading SFML and configuring Visual Studio
Creating a window
Drawing shapes
Adding sprites
Keyboard input
Handing player movement
Summary
Creating Your Game Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Your Game
Starting afresh
Creating the Hero class
Creating the Enemy class
Adding enemies
Creating the Rocket class
Collision detection
Summary
Finalizing Your Game Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Finalizing Your Game
Finishing the Gameloop and adding scoring
Adding text
Adding audio
Adding player animations
Summary
Section 3: Modern OpenGL 3D Game Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 3: Modern OpenGL 3D Game Development
Getting Started with OpenGL Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Started with OpenGL
What is OpenGL?
Creating our first OpenGL project
Summary
Building on the Game Objects Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building on the Game Objects
Creating the MeshRenderer class
Creating the TextureLoader class
Adding Bullet Physics
Adding rigid bodies
Summary
Enhancing Your Game with Collision, Loops, and Lighting Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Enhancing Your Game with Collision, Loops, and Lighting
Adding a RigidBody name
Adding an enemy
Moving the enemy
Checking collision
Adding keyboard controls
Game loop and scoring
Adding lighting
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Section 4: Rendering 3D Objects with Vulkan Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 4: Rendering 3D Objects with Vulkan
Getting Started with Vulkan Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Started with Vulkan
About Vulkan
Configuring Visual Studio
Vulkan validation layers and extensions
Vulkan instances
The Vulkan Context class
Creating the window surface
Picking a physical device and creating a logical device
Summary
Preparing the Clear Screen Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Preparing the Clear Screen
Creating SwapChain
Creating Renderpass
Using render targets and framebuffers
Creating CommandBuffer
Beginning and ending Renderpass
Creating the clear screen
Summary
Creating Object Resources Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Object Resources
Updating the Mesh class for Vulkan
Creating the ObjectBuffers class
Creating the Descriptor class
Creating the SPIR-V shader binary
Summary
Drawing Vulkan Objects Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Drawing Vulkan Objects
Preparing the GraphicsPipeline class
The ObjectRenderer class
Changes to the VulkanContext class
The Camera class
Drawing the object
Synchronizing the object
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Bon livre, bien structuré, avec des exemples de code fournis. Je le recommande.
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It, s so hard to install the software, it took me 2-3 weeks to install the softwares like SFML, and also hard to understand, the game physics and concept to hard..
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the link supplied both in the digital version and the hard copy have a bad link and can't find the images online...Update: You can however use the git link to download the samples and all the art assets are in each example
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* By the end of the book, you will have programmed three graphical applications in C++ for the Windows operating system.* The programming language is C++11, compiled using the Visual Studio IDE for Windows.* The book was not written for multiple platforms, but the code does not make heavy use of Windows specific functionality, so it should work with a few minor adjustments.* The applications are simple games with limited functionality. This book focuses on the graphics and rendering, not the gameplay.* Each of the three applications are built upon a different graphics library: SFML, OpenGL, Vulkan.BEGINNERS BEWARE* I would recommend this book to advanced C++ programmers.* People with no knowledge of programming will struggle with this book. Read a beginner's guide book first.* Chapter 1 (C++ Concepts) is a good refresher, and may be suitable for beginner C++ programmers.* The majority of the book is advanced. I do not recommend this for beginner programmers, and it will probably go over the heads of intermediate programmers. To be a C++ developer, you need to know your stuff.MY SUCCESS WITH THIS BOOK* I (the reviewer) was able to follow this book and achieve all the results that the author achieved, with difficulty.* Here's my computer specs: * Windows 10.0.18362.0 * NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super * AMD Ryzen 7 3700X* Here's the tools I used: * Visual Studio Community 2019 version 16.8.4 * CMake 3.19.4 * Vulkan SDK 1.2.141.2 * and the C++ libraries mentioned in the book (URLs are included in the book).* I built the SFML game in x86 (32-bit) configuration, and I built the OpenGL and Vulkan games in x64 configuration.THE NITTY GRITTY* Important parts of the book require you to build third party libraries using CMake. The author expects you to know how, and assumes the libraries are already built. The libraries I had the most trouble with were for the OpenGL section: * Bullet (physics library) * Freetype* Throughout the book, the blocks of code have many minor spelling errors, which means that you cannot assume that the code is correct. If you copy and paste it, you need to fix the errors. I suppose this is to help you avoid plagiarizing. The overall architecture and program logic is correct, but there are a few parts of the program that are missing. Because of the format in which they sent me this book to review, I did not have access to the accompanying code repository of the final project files, but I managed to guess and fill in the blanks (and copy one or two bits from other tutorials).* The Vulkan section is the hardest and longest to produce a meaningful outcome (because Vulkan always takes long). One difference between this book and the online Vulkan Tutorial is that this book separates the logic into classes and methods, instead of one monolithic class of functions.* The author includes a constructor and destructor for every class, but they do nothing, so you should in fact remove the empty constructors and destructors from the headers and cpp files because they are not being used for proper RAII. The author's approach for lifetime semantics is member functions (e.g. init() and destroy()).* Because the author uses raw pointers (new and delete), it might be worth it to `=delete` the copy and move constructors and assignment operators, to avoid lifetime issues.* Unlike the author, I always group my includes in a specific order to prevent most issues. * #include <std-library-header> * #include <third-party-library-header> * #include "header-in-this-project" * #include "accompanying-header-of-this-cpp-file"* Instead of writing #define in the source code to configure headers, I add them as preprocessor definitions in the Project Properties. ( GLFW_INCLUDE_VULKAN;GLM_FORCE_RADIANS;GLM_FORCE_DEPTH_ZERO_TO_ONE ). This avoids the possibility of the header being compiled in a different file without the definition.* The author was not concerned about the safety of class invariants. Some member variables are public when they should be private. For a toy project such as this, it doesn't matter.CONCLUSIONThis is a book for intermediate-to-advanced C++ programmers looking for a challenge, willing to learn how to program graphical applications for Windows.
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The general concepts in the book are solid. The problem are the mistakes, both grammatical and coding. There are examples that are supposed to return a particular result but do not work in the real world. There are basic C++ concepts explained in the start that have fundamental flaws and mistakes that would result in code that either won't compile or won't run the way the book explains. These aren't complicated examples, they are basics on how classes in C++ works, namespaces and how they are used, and the list goes on from there. The publisher's website lists no errata at all for the book. If someone would have taken the time to double-check the code and grammar, this book would be a solid four stars.
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Siddharth Shekar is a game developer and teacher with over 6 years' industry experience and 12 years' experience in C++ and other programming languages. He is adept at graphics libraries such as OpenGL and Vulkan, and game engines such as Unity and Unreal. He has published games on the iOS and Android app stores. He has also authored books including Swift Game Development, Mastering Android Game Development with Unity, and Learning iOS 8 Game Development Using Swift, all published by Packt Publishing. He currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand, and is a lecturer in the games department at Media Design School. He teaches advanced computer graphics programming, PlayStation 4 native game development, and mentors final year production students.
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