You're reading from Going the Distance with Babylon.js Building extensible, maintainable, and attractive browser-based interactive applications using JavaScript

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801076586

Length 426 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Babylon.js

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Josh Elster

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Building the Application

2. Chapter 1: The Space-Truckers Operation Manual FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Ramping up on Babylon.js

4. Chapter 3: Establishing the Development Workflow

5. Chapter 4: Creating the Application

6. Chapter 5: Adding a Cut Scene and Handling Input

7. Part 2: Constructing the Game

8. Chapter 6: Implementing the Game Mechanics

9. Chapter 7: Processing Route Data

10. Chapter 8: Building the Driving Game

11. Chapter 9: Calculating and Displaying Scoring Results

12. Chapter 10: Improving the Environment with Lighting and Materials

13. Part 3: Going the Distance

14. Chapter 11: Scratching the Surface of Shaders

15. Chapter 12: Measuring and Optimizing Performance

16. Chapter 13: Converting the Application to a PWA

17. Chapter 14: Extended Topics, Extended

18. Index

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Technical Requirements

The source code for this chapter is located at https://github.com/jelster/space-truckers/tree/ch10. While we’ll still be looking at some Playground code, most of our work in this chapter lies elsewhere. For working with images and textures, the following non-exhaustive list of tools will be useful for preparing and converting image assets for use with Babylon.js.

Tools

The following tools will help you in this chapter:

Glossary of terms (abridged)

Here is a list of some of the more common acronyms and terms that you might encounter during this chapter or while reading other resources on the topic of 3D lighting and materials. It’s far from complete but will serve as a jumping-off point to expand your vocabulary further:

Direct Draw Surface (DDS): A file format that’s useful for storing high-resolution images. This includes MIP maps. Babylon.js supports the so-called “legacy” DX1 DDS...