- Panda3D 1.7 Game Developer's Cookbook
- Copyright
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Setting Up Panda3D and Configuring Development Tools
- 2. Creating and Building Scenes
- Introduction
- Loading terrain
- Loading and attaching sounds to objects
- Creating a scene using C++
- Adding an additional camera
- Inspecting and modifying the scene
- Modifying the scene graph
- Moving objects based on time
- Controlling actions using intervals
- Making animations fit to intervals
- 3. Controlling the Renderer
- 4. Scene Effects and Shaders
- 5. Post-Processing and Screen Space Effects
- 6. 2D Elements and User Interfaces
- 7. Application Control
- 8. Collision Detection and Physics
- 9. Networking
- 10. Debugging and Performance
- 11. Input Handling
- Introduction
- Handling keyboard and mouse input
- Implementing an abstraction layer for supporting multiple input methods
- Handling input from an Xbox 360 controller
- Recording and simulating user input
- Reading audio data from a microphone
- Reading video data from a webcam
- Reading input data from a network
- 12. Packaging and Distribution
- 13. Connecting Panda3D with Content Creation Tools
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Adding lights and shadows
- Using light ramps
- Creating particle effects
- Animating textures
- Adding ribbon trails to an object
- Creating a flashlight effect
- Making objects reflect the scene
- Adding a custom shader generator
- Applying a custom Cg shader
While brilliant gameplay is the key to a fun and successful game, it is essential to deliver beautiful visuals to provide a pleasing experience and immerse the player in the game world. The looks of many modern productions are massively dominated by all sorts of visual magic to create the jaw-dropping visual density that is soaked up by players with joy and makes them feel connected to the action and the gameplay they are experiencing.
The appearance of your game matters a lot to its reception by players. Therefore it is important to know how to leverage your technology to get the best possible looks out of it. This is why this chapter will show you how Panda3D allows you to create great looking games using lights, shaders, and particles.
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