Game Programming Gems 5 (GAME PROGRAMMING GEMS SERIES)

848 Pages·2005·44.524 MB·English

by  Kim Pallister

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Game programming gems 5 / Kim Pallister, editor.— 1st ed.
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1. Computer games—Programming. 2. Computer graphics. I. Pallister, Kim.
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Contents
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Preface ir esie rn WT ras. Be DEMOS, OR, reeeeete AL... Be Xv
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COntriDUlOm BOS i ia. tita is niata ne bys cata oe atenfa elace cnR ae eee seS s xxi
SECTION 1 GENERAL PROGRAMMING........000cceeeuuuuecuuuase 1
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William E. Damon III
1.1 Context-Sensitive HUDs for Editors............55 RASyR OREE RT T 5
Adam Martin, Grex Games
1.2 Parsing Lext Data.in Games 2.22 ec ee ee le ee 17
Aurelio Reis
1.3 Component Based Object Management ........2000000ennnunne 25
Bjarne Rene, Circle Studio ltd
1.4 Using Templates for Reflection in C++ ....0c e. een. e.ee e0e e 39
Dominic Filion, Artificial Mind & Movement
1.5 Sphere Trees for Speedy BSPs ..... 2.0. ce ence een e eee 55
Dominic Filion, Artificial Mind & Movement
1.6 Improved Frustum Culling .......2nnn0 ncen ne nece ceeceeeee 65
Frank Puig Placeres
“ Fr Generic Pager « «i+ «incite a ad beret een bee ris Ce ns 79
Ignacio Incera Cruz
1.8 Large-Scale Stack-Based State Machines. .........02.0eeseenee 93
James Boer
1.9 CSG Construction Using BSP Trees ......0en0e ne nceenn 103
Octavian Marius Chincisan
1.10 Building Lua into Games .... 2.0 c eee eee eee 115
Matthew Harmon, eVIn teractive Corporation
1.11 Improving Freelists with Policy Based Design.....+:+ SPER HY 129
Nathan Mefford
1.12 A Real-Time Remote Debug Message Logger ..... 2112220522558 143
Patrick Duquette, Microids Canada Inc.
1.13 A Transparent Class Saving and Loading Trick.......+0++++s05: 149
Patrick Meehan
1.14 An Effective Cache-Oblivious Implementation of the ABT Tree .... 159
Sébastien Schertenleib, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL),
Virtual Reality Lab (VRlab)
1.15 Visual Design of State Machines..0.00. n.n e.ne. ee0 ee2e .eee e 169
Scott Jacobs
1.16 A Generic Component Library.....ee.e .eee0 e0e0e 0eees 177
Warrick Buchanan
1.17 Choose Your Path—A Menu System ...c.ee .eee 0eee0 eee0 ee e 189
Wendy Jones
SECTION 2 MATHEMATICS ...... 2000 e eee eens IST
Introduction 2.00 snus sm cn ee ow Beare nets FOES SEOIE es x 199
Eric Lengyel, Naughty Dog Inc.
2.1 Using Geometric Algebra for Computer Graphics...... ae ae 201
Chris Lomont
2.2 Minimal Acceleration Hermite Curves.200.00. en.e e. en.e n.ee ee 225
Tony Barrera, Barrera Kristiansen AB; Anders Hast, Creative Media Lab,
University of Gavle; and Ewert Bengtsson, Centre for Image Analysis,
Uppsala University
2.3 Spline-Based Time Control for Animation .........00000neeuees 233
James M. Van Verth, Red Storm Entertainment
2.4 Faster Quaternion Interpolation Using Approximations. ..........247
Andy Thomason
2.5 Minimax Numerical Approximation ..... ae te ae ere Oe eratatars ».. 269
Christopher Tremblay
2.6 Oblique View Frustums for Mirrors and Portals........ a as Patediis . 281
Eric Lengyel