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Hands-On C++ Game Animation Programming

You're reading from Hands-On C++ Game Animation Programming Learn modern animation techniques from theory to implementation with C++ and OpenGL

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800208087

Length 368 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

OpenGL

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Gabor Szauer

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Creating a Game Window

2. Chapter 2: Implementing Vectors FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Implementing Matrices

4. Chapter 4: Implementing Quaternions

5. Chapter 5: Implementing Transforms

6. Chapter 6: Building an Abstract Renderer

7. Chapter 7: Exploring the glTF File Format

8. Chapter 8: Creating Curves, Frames, and Tracks

9. Chapter 9: Implementing Animation Clips

10. Chapter 10: Mesh Skinning

11. Chapter 11: Optimizing the Animation Pipeline

12. Chapter 12: Blending between Animations

13. Chapter 13: Implementing Inverse Kinematics

14. Chapter 14: Using Dual Quaternions for Skinning

15. Chapter 15: Rendering Instanced Crowds

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Further reading

Other than FABRIK and CCD, IK chains are sometimes solved analytically or with Jacobian matrices:

For more info on analytical IK solvers, check out http://theorangeduck.com/page/simple-two-joint.
A complete Jacobian solver implementation is covered in Game Programming Gems 4.

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Authors (1)

Gabor Szauer

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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