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Author Edén, Rikard

Title JMonkeyEngine 3.0 cookbook : over 80 practical recipes to expand and enrich your jMonkeyEngine skill set with a close focus on game development / Rickard Edén
Published Birmingham, UK : Packt Pub., 2014

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: SDK Game Development Hub; Introduction; Setting up a project; Importing a model; Using Scene Composer; Modifying heightmaps with Terrain Editor; Adding a sky box and lighting; Adding water using a filter; Adding some ambient audio; Creating bitmap fonts with Font Creator; Retrieving an attachment node; Using ParticleEmitter -- Soaring Birds; An advanced ParticleEmitter class; Chapter 2: Cameras and Game Controls; Introduction; Creating a reusable character control
Attaching an input AppState objectFiring in FPS; Firing non-instant bullets; Creating an RTS camera AppState object; Selecting units in RTS; Making the camera follow units; Following a character with ChaseCamera; Adding a game controller or joystick input; Leaning around corners; Detecting cover automatically in a third-person game; Chapter 3: World Building; Introduction; Using noise to generate a terrain; Lighting your world and providing it with dynamic lights; Deforming a terrain in real time; Automating trees'' distribution; Endless worlds and infinite space
Flowing water with cellular automataThe essentials of a cube-based world; Chapter 4: Mastering Character Animations; Introduction; Previewing animations in SDK; Creating an animation manager control; Extending the animation control; Handling jump animations; Creating a custom animation -- leaning; Creating a subanimation; Lip syncing and facial expressions; Eye movement; Location-dependent animation -- edge check; Aligning feet with ground -- inverse kinematics; Chapter 5: Artificial Intelligence; Introduction; Creating a reusable AI control class; Sensing -- vision; Sensing -- hearing
Decision making -- Finite State MachineCreating the AI using cover; Generating NavMesh in SDK; Pathfinding -- using NavMesh; Controlling groups of AI; Pathfinding -- our own A* pathfinder; Chapter 6: GUI with Nifty GUI; Introduction; Initializing Nifty and managing an options menu; Loading the screen; Creating an RPG dialog screen; Implementing a game console; Handling a game message queue; Creating an inventory screen; Customizing the input and settings page; Using offscreen rendering for a minimap; Chapter 7: Networking with SpiderMonkey; Introduction; Setting up a server and client
Handling basic messagingMaking a networked game -- Battleships; Implementing a network code for FPS; Loading a level; Interpolating between player positions; Firing over a network; Optimizing the bandwidth and avoiding cheating; Chapter 8: Physics with Bullet; Introduction; Creating a pushable door; Building a rocket engine; Ballistic projectiles and arrows; Handling multiple gravity sources; Self-balancing using RotationalLimitMotors; The principles of a bridge-building game; Networked physics; Chapter 9: Taking Our Game to the Next Level; Introduction
Summary If you are a jMonkey developer or a Java developer who is interested to delve further into the game making process to expand your skillset and create more technical games, then this book is perfect for you
Notes English
Online resource; title from cover (Safari, viewed August 29, 2014)
Subject Video games -- Design.
Video games -- Programming.
Java (Computer program language)
COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- General.
Computer games -- Design
Video games -- Programming
Java (Computer program language)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783286485
1783286482
1783286474
9781783286478