Killer Game Programming In Java

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ISBN: 9780596007300 | 0596007302
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/30/2005

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3D is all the rage with game and graphics programmers. This is the first book to thoroughly cover Java's 3D capabilities for all types of graphics and game development projects. Java developers new to graphics and game programming, and game developers new to Java 3D will all benefit from this practical introduction to the latest Java graphics and game programming technologies and techniques. Beginning with an overview of the older, better known 2D capabilities, then moving on to thoroughly cover Java 3D, this is a comprehensive guide with both breadth and depth of coverage. Features chapters on 3D Sprites, Animated 3D sprites, first- person shooter programming, fractals, networked games and mobile 3D games.

Preface

Why Java for Games Programming?

(12)

Java Is Too Slow for Games Programming

(1)

Java Has Memory Leaks

(1)

Java Is Too High-level

(1)

Java Application Installation Is a Nightmare

(1)

Java Isn't Supported on Games Consoles

(2)

No One Uses Java to Write Real Games

(3)

Sun Microsystems Isn't Interested in Supporting Java Gaming

(3)

An Animation Framework

(33)

Animation as a Threaded Canvas

(6)

Adding User Interaction

(1)

Converting to Active Rendering

(1)

FPS and Sleeping for Varying Times

(9)

Sleeping Better

(3)

FPS and UPS

(3)

Pausing and Resuming

(2)

Other Animation Approaches

(7)

Worms in Windows and Applets

(30)

Preliminary Considerations

(1)

Class Diagrams for the WormChase Application

(1)

The Worm-Chasing Application

(2)

The Game Panel

(9)

Storing Worm Information

(8)

Worm Obstacles

(1)

Application Timing Results

(2)

WormChase as an Applet

(3)

Compilation in J2SE 5.0

(3)

Full-Screen Worms

(29)

An Almost Full-Screen (AFS) Worm

(5)

An Undecorated Full-Screen (UFS) Worm

(7)

A Full-Screen Exclusive Mode (FSEM) Worm

(14)

Timings at 80 to 85 FPS

103

(2)

An Introduction to Java Imaging

105

(19)

Image Formats

105

(1)

The AWT Imaging Model

106

(4)

An Overview of Java 2D

110

(3)

Buffering an Image

113

(7)

Managed Images

120

(1)

VolatileImage

121

(1)

Java 2D Speed

122

(1)

Portability and Java 2D

122

(1)

JAI

123

(1)

Image Loading, Visual Effects, and Animation

124

(54)

Loading Images

126

(8)

Applying Image Effects

134

(10)

Displaying Image Sequences

144

(3)

Visual Effects for `o' Images

147

(28)

Packaging the Application as a JAR

175

(3)

Introducing Java Sound

178

(27)

Applet Playing

178

(1)

The AudioClip Class

179

(3)

The Sound Player

182

(3)

The Java Sound API

185

(1)

Sampled Audio

185

(12)

MIDI

197

(5)

Java Sound API Compared with JMF and JOAL

202

(1)

Java Sound API Resources

202

(2)

Audio Resources

204

(1)

Loading and Playing Sounds

205

(21)

Loader Design and Implementation Issues

207

(2)

Testing the Loaders

209

(4)

The Sounds Panel

213

(1)

The Clips Loader

214

(2)

Storing Clip Information

216

(3)

The Midi Sequences Loader

219

(4)

Storing Midi Information

223

(2)

LoadersTests as a JAR File

225

(1)

Audio Effects

226

(23)

Audio Effects on Sampled Audio

226

(10)

Audio Effects on MIDI Sequences

236

(13)

Audio Synthesis

249

(21)

Sampled Audio Synthesis

249

(6)

MIDI Synthesis

255

(13)

Audio Synthesis Libraries

268

(2)

Sprites

270

(28)

Bats, Balls, and Sprites

270

(2)

Class Diagrams for BugRunner

272

(1)

The Bug Starts Running

273

(1)

The Animation Framework

274

(5)

Defining a Sprite

279

(1)

Coding a Sprite

280

(4)

Specifying a Sprite with a Statechart

284

(3)

The Ball Sprite

287

(6)

Defining the Bat

293

(5)

A Side-Scroller

298

(47)

JumpingJack in Layers

299

(1)

Class Diagrams for JumpingJack

300

(3)

Start Jack Jumping

303

(1)

The Animation Framework

303

(10)

Managing the Ribbons

313

(1)

Wraparound Ribbons

314

(6)

Managing the Bricks

320

(13)

Storing Brick Information

333

(1)

The Fireball

334

(2)

The Jumping Sprite

336

(7)

Other Side-Scroller Examples

343

(1)

Tiling Software

344

(1)

An Isometric Tile Game

345

(42)

Isometric Tiles

346

(4)

Class Diagrams for Alien Tiles

350

(2)

The Animation Framework

352

(4)

Managing the World

356

(7)

Managing WorldItems

363

(3)

The Tile Occupier

366

(2)

A Sprite on a Tile

368

(2)

The Player Sprite

370

(3)

The Alien Sprite

373

(3)

The Quadrant-Based Alien Sprite

376

(2)

The A*-Based Alien Sprite

378

(5)

Storing Tile Details

383

(1)

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