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Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide Create amazing games with Qt 5, C++, and Qt Quick

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788399999
Length 714 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Pavel Vladimirovich Strakhov Pavel Vladimirovich Strakhov
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Preface 1. Introduction to Qt 2. Installation FREE CHAPTER 3. Qt GUI Programming 4. Custom 2D Graphics with Graphics View 5. Animations in Graphics View 6. Qt Core Essentials 7. Networking 8. Custom Widgets 9. OpenGL and Vulkan in Qt applications 10. Scripting 11. Introduction to Qt Quick 12. Customization in Qt Quick 13. Animations in Qt Quick Games 14. Advanced Visual Effects in Qt Quick 15. 3D Graphics with Qt 16. Pop quiz answers
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Python scripting

Qt QML is an environment that is designed to be part of the Qt world. Since not everyone knows or likes JavaScript, we will present another language that can easily be used to provide scripting environments for games that are created with Qt. Just be aware that this will not be an in-depth description of the environment—we will just show you the basics that can provide foundations for your own research.

A popular language used for scripting is Python. There are two variants of Qt bindings that are available for Python: PySide2 and PyQt. PySide2 is the official binding that is available under LGPL. PyQt is a third-party library that is available under GPL v3 and a commercial license.

PyQt is not available under LGPL, so for commercial closed-source products, you need to obtain a commercial license from Riverbank computing!

These bindings allow you to use...

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