- 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:
- Downloading a file from a server
- Using assets hosted on a server
- Sending high scores to a server
- Establishing a network connection
- Sending and receiving custom datagrams
- Synchronizing object state between server and client
Thanks to the adoption of networking features, today's video games provide a great deal of additional value. While you are reading this, millions of gamers across the globe are playing their favorite games against each other or cooperatively, submitting scores to online leaderboards or retrieving the latest package of downloadable bonus content. Without a doubt, games providing networking features are opening the doors for players to compete, communicate, and connect.
Panda3D, being the engine behind Disney Interactive's Pirates of the Caribbean Online, comes with a set of built-in features for developing features that make use of network connections. In this chapter you will learn how to access remote content and how to implement a very simple online leaderboard. You will also be introduced to the basics of writing a custom network protocol and replicating the state of an object across hosts.
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