Table Of Content3D iOS Games
by Tutorials
By Chris Language
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Dedications
"To my wife Corné and my daughter Marizé.
Thank you for your patience, support, belief,
and most of all, your love.
Everything I do, I do for you."
— Chris Language
About the author
Chris Language is a seasoned coder with 20+ years of
experience. He has fond memories of his childhood and his
Commodore 64; more recently he started adding more good
memories of life with all his iOS devices. By day, he fights
for survival in the corporate jungle of Johannesburg, South
Africa. By night he fights demons, dragons and angry little
potty-mouth kids online. For relaxation he codes. You can
find him on Twitter @ChrisLanguage. Forever Coder, Artist,
Musician, Gamer and Dreamer.
About the editors
Chris Belanger was an editor for this book. He spends his
days developing real-time industrial control applications; he
fills the rest of his time with writing, editing, travelling,
composing music, enjoying the great outdoors and
appreciating the finer things in life. He's excited to have
worked on yet another book with the great
raywenderlich.com team and can't imagine life without this
crazy, wonderful bunch.
Wendy Lincoln was an editor for this book. By day, she
manages complex content development projects and by
night she escapes into the world of iOS. Before all this, she
produced a cooking show named Hot Kitchen, wrote a
cookbook and taught cooking classes. A few years ago she
realized her love for writing, editing and playing with
computers; she's never looked back. Once in a while, her
husband manages to tear her away from the computer for
trips to the beach and random home improvement projects.
Toby Stephens was a technical editor for this book. has
over twenty years of software development experience, and
is currently Head of Mobile Development at inplaymaker in
London. Toby has a passion for gaming and game writing.
He also writes music and enjoys a spot of bread baking. You
can find him on Twitter: as @TJShae and on his website:
tjshae.com
Ray Wenderlich was the final pass editor for this book. Ray
is part of a great team - the raywenderlich.com team, a
group of over 100 developers and editors from across the
world. He and the rest of the team are passionate both
about making apps and teaching others the techniques to
make them. When Ray’s not programming, he’s probably
playing video games, role playing games, or board games.
Ken Woo was a technical editor for this book. He loves
making mobile apps and games and have been doing
professional for a number of years now. Currently, he's
trying to spread the fun by teaching others how to code as
well. You can follow his adventure on ikenwoo.com and on
Twitter as @ikenwoo.
3D iOS Games by Tutorials
Table of Contents: Overview
Introduction................................................................................ 13
Section I: Hello, Scene Kit!............................................ 22
Chapter 1: Scenes........................................................... 24
Chapter 2: Nodes............................................................ 33
Chapter 3: Physics........................................................... 52
Chapter 4: Render Loop ................................................ 64
Chapter 5: Particle Systems .......................................... 73
Section II: The Scene Kit Editor..................................... 94
Chapter 6: Scene Editor................................................. 95
Chapter 7: Cameras..................................................... 110
Chapter 8: Lights........................................................... 124
Chapter 9: Primitives.................................................... 139
Chapter 10: Basic Collision Detection....................... 162
Section III: Intermediate SceneKit............................... 183
Chapter 11: Materials................................................. 184
Chapter 12: Reference Nodes ................................... 199
Chapter 13: Shadows.................................................. 213
Chapter 14: Intermediate Collision Detection......... 235
Chapter 15: Motion Control........................................ 254
Section IV: Advanced Scene Kit ................................. 270
Chapter 16: Transitions................................................ 272
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Chapter 17: Advanced Scene Creation ................... 296
Chapter 18: Actions...................................................... 318
Chapter 19: Advanced Collision Detection.............. 345
Chapter 20: Audio........................................................ 368
Conclusion ............................................................................... 382
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Table of Contents: Extended
Introduction................................................................................ 13
A History of SceneKit........................................................................................................ 14
What you need.................................................................................................................. 14
Who this book is for.......................................................................................................... 15
How to use this book......................................................................................................... 15
What's ahead: an overview............................................................................................ 16
Section I: Hello, SceneKit!................................................................................................. 16
Section II: The SceneKit Editor......................................................................................... 17
Section III: Intermediate SceneKit................................................................................... 18
Section IV: Advanced SceneKit........................................................................................ 19
Book source code and forums......................................................................................... 20
Book updates...................................................................................................................... 20
License.................................................................................................................................. 20
Acknowledgements............................................................................................................ 21
Section I: Hello, Scene Kit!............................................ 22
Chapter 1: Scenes ................................................................... 24
Getting started.................................................................................................................. 24
Working with your game project.................................................................................... 25
Cleaning up your game project...................................................................................... 28
Setting up Scene Kit.......................................................................................................... 29
Chapter 2: Nodes.................................................................... 33
Getting Started.................................................................................................................. 35
The Scene Kit coordinate system.................................................................................... 40
Working with cameras...................................................................................................... 42
Adding the camera........................................................................................................... 43
Working with geometry.................................................................................................... 43
Using built-in view features............................................................................................. 47
Challenges........................................................................................................................... 50
Chapter 3: Physics................................................................... 52
Getting started.................................................................................................................. 52
Introducing physics............................................................................................................. 54
Adding physics................................................................................................................... 55
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Working with forces.......................................................................................................... 57
Working with torque......................................................................................................... 60
Adding some flair.............................................................................................................. 61
Where to go from here?.................................................................................................. 63
Chapter 4: Render Loop......................................................... 64
Adding the renderer delegate....................................................................................... 66
Adding a spawn timer...................................................................................................... 68
Cleaning up your scene.................................................................................................... 69
Where to go from here?.................................................................................................. 71
Chapter 5: Particle Systems................................................... 73
SCNParticleSystem............................................................................................................ 73
Getting started.................................................................................................................. 74
Configuring the trail particle system.............................................................................. 76
Adding the trail particles................................................................................................. 82
Adding a heads-up display............................................................................................. 84
Adding touch handling...................................................................................................... 85
Challenge............................................................................................................................ 89
Shaping particle explosions............................................................................................. 90
Juice...................................................................................................................................... 92
Where to go from here?.................................................................................................. 93
Section II: The Scene Kit Editor..................................... 94
Chapter 6: Scene Editor......................................................... 95
Getting started.................................................................................................................. 95
Scene Kit editor............................................................................................................... 101
Loading and presenting a scene file........................................................................... 107
Cleaning up the scene.................................................................................................... 108
Where to go from here?................................................................................................ 109
Chapter 7: Cameras............................................................. 110
Getting started................................................................................................................ 111
Heads Up Display (HUD)............................................................................................... 113
Camera nodes................................................................................................................. 114
Node binding................................................................................................................... 119
Device Orientation.......................................................................................................... 120
Where to go from here?................................................................................................ 123
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Chapter 8: Lights................................................................... 124
Getting Started............................................................................................................... 125
Sphere nodes................................................................................................................... 127
Light nodes........................................................................................................................ 130
Three point lighting......................................................................................................... 131
Where to go from here?................................................................................................ 138
Chapter 9: Primitives............................................................ 139
Getting started................................................................................................................ 139
Build barriers................................................................................................................... 140
Build the paddle.............................................................................................................. 153
Challenge.......................................................................................................................... 159
Where to go from here?................................................................................................ 161
Chapter 10: Basic Collision Detection............................... 162
Add physics...................................................................................................................... 162
Handling collision detection........................................................................................... 169
Add touch controls........................................................................................................... 175
Camera tracking............................................................................................................. 176
Add a trailing effect...................................................................................................... 178
Challenge.......................................................................................................................... 181
Where to go from here?................................................................................................ 182
Section III: Intermediate SceneKit............................... 183
Chapter 11: Materials ......................................................... 184
Getting started................................................................................................................ 185
Lighting models................................................................................................................ 185
Materials........................................................................................................................... 186
Creating the game project............................................................................................ 194
Creating a skybox.......................................................................................................... 196
Where to go from here?................................................................................................ 197
Chapter 12: Reference Nodes ........................................... 199
Getting started................................................................................................................ 199
Materials........................................................................................................................... 202
Texture filtering............................................................................................................... 206
Challenge.......................................................................................................................... 208
Where to go from here?................................................................................................ 212
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