- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1. Graphics
- Introduction
- 1.1. Fast Font Rendering with Instancing
- 1.2. Principles and Practice of Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
- 1.3. Multi-Resolution Deferred Shading
- 1.4. View Frustum Culling of Catmull-Clark Patches in DirectX 11
- 1.5. Ambient Occlusion Using DirectX Compute Shader
- 1.6. Eye-View Pixel Anti-Aliasing for Irregular Shadow Mapping
- 1.7. Overlapped Execution on Programmable Graphics Hardware
- 1.8. Techniques for Effective Vertex and Fragment Shading on the SPUs
- 2. Physics and Animation
- Introduction
- 2.1. A Versatile and Interactive Anatomical Human Face Model
- 2.2. Curved Paths for Seamless Character Animation
- 2.3. Non-Iterative, Closed-Form, Inverse Kinematic Chain Solver (NCF IK)
- 2.4. Particle Swarm Optimization for Game Programming
- A Few Words on Optimization
- The PSO Paradigm and Its Canonical Formulation
- Add-Ons to the Classical Formulation
- A Note on Randomness
- Case Study 1: Typical Benchmarking Functions
- Case Study 2: Optimization of Physical Parameters for In-Game Vehicle Simulation
- Case Study 3: Physics-Based Animation of Mechanical Systems
- Conclusion
- References
- 2.5. Improved Numerical Integration with Analytical Techniques
- Classifying Errors
- Kinematics of Constant Acceleration
- The Kinematic Integrator
- Integral Contributions Due to a Spring Force
- Multiple Forces
- Integral Contributions of a Pulse
- Integral Contributions of Collision Forces
- Integral Contributions of Viscous Forces
- Integral Contributions of Constraint Forces
- Summary
- Conclusion
- 2.6. What a Drag: Modeling Realistic Three-Dimensional Air and Fluid Resistance
- 2.7. Application of Quasi-Fluid Dynamics for Arbitrary Closed Meshes
- 2.8. Approximate Convex Decomposition for Real-Time Collision Detection
- 3. AI
- Introduction
- 3.1. AI Level of Detail for Really Large Worlds
- 3.2. A Pattern-Based Approach to Modular AI for Games
- 3.3. Automated Navigation Mesh Generation Using Advanced Growth-Based Techniques
- 3.4. A Practical Spatial Architecture for Animal and Agent Navigation
- 3.5. Applying Control Theory to Game AI and Physics
- 3.6. Adaptive Tactic Selection in First-Person Shooter (FPS) Games
- 3.7. Embracing Chaos Theory: Generating Apparent Unpredictability through Deterministic Systems
- 3.8. Needs-Based AI
- 3.9. A Framework for Emotional Digital Actors
- 3.10. Scalable Dialog Authoring
- 3.11. Graph-Based Data Mining for Player Trace Analysis in MMORPGs
- 4. General Programming
- Introduction
- 4.1. Fast-IsA
- 4.2. Registered Variables
- 4.3. Efficient and Scalable Multi-Core Programming
- 4.4. Game Optimization through the Lens of Memory and Data Access
- 4.5. Stack Allocation
- 4.6. Design and Implementation of an In-Game Memory Profiler
- 4.7. A More Informative Error Log Generator
- 4.8. Code Coverage for QA
- 4.9. Domain-Specific Languages in Game Engines
- 4.10. A Flexible User Interface Layout System for Divergent Environments
- 4.11. Road Creation for Projectable Terrain Meshes
- 4.12. Developing for Digital Drawing Tablets
- 4.13. Creating a Multi-Threaded Actor-Based Architecture Using Intel® Threading Building Blocks
- 5. Networking and Multiplayer
- Introduction
- 5.1. Secure Channel Communication
- 5.2. Social Networks in Games: Playing with Your Facebook Friends
- 5.3. Asynchronous I/O for Scalable Game Servers
- 5.4. Introduction to 3D Streaming Technology in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
- 6. Audio
- 7. General Purpose Computing on GPUs
- Introduction
- 7.1. Using Heterogeneous Parallel Architectures with OpenCL
- 7.2. PhysX GPU Rigid Bodies in Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Requirements
- Shape Representation
- Dynamics Algorithm
- Pipeline
- Transform Spheres into World Space
- Sphere-Sphere Collision Detection
- Sphere-Mesh Collision Detection
- Evaluate Force Fields
- Calculate Unconstrained Velocities
- Generate Constraints
- Solver
- Update Positions
- GPU Implementation
- CUDA Voxelizer
- Spatial Data Structures
- Solver
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 7.3. Fast GPU Fluid Simulation in PhysX
- Color Plate
Full bios for those contributors who submitted one can be found at www.courseptr.com/ downloads. Contributors to this book include:
Dr. Doug Binks, D.Phil.
Udeepta Bordoloi
Igor Borovikov
Cyril Brom
Eric Brown
Phil Carlisle
Michael Dailly
Peter Dalton
Kevin Dill
Jean-Francois Dube
Dominic Filion
Marco Fratarcangeli
Nico Galoppo
Benedict R. Gaster
Gero Gerber
Robert Jay Gould
Neil Gower
Joshua Grass, Ph.D.
Hunter Hale
Mark Harris
Thomas Hartley
Kevin He
Claus Höfele
Allen Hux
Peter Iliev
Matthew Jack
Aleksey Kadukin
Nikhil S. Ketkar
Hyunwoo Ki
Adam Lake
Michael Lewin
Chris Lomont, Ph.D.
Ricky Lung
Khaled Mamou
Dave Mark
Quasim Mehdi
Krzysztof Mieloszyk
Jason Mitchell
Ben Nicholson
Ian Ni-Lewis
Mat Noguchi
Borut Pfeifer
Brian Pickrell
Tomas Poch
Steve Rabin
Mike Ramsey
B. Charles Rasco, Ph.D.
João Lucas G. Raza
Aurelio Reis
Zhimin Ren
Marc Romankewicz
Dario Sancho
Rahul Sathe
Simon Schirm
Brian Schmidt
Ondřej Šerý
Philip Taylor
Richard Tonge
Steven Tovey
Gabriel Ware
Ben Wyatt
G. Michael Youngblood
Jason Zink
Robert Zubek
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