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Hillar Gastón C |
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3D game development with Microsoft Silverlight 3 [[electronic resource] ] : beginner's guide : a practical guide to creating real-time responsive online 3D games in Silverlight 3 using C#, XBAP WPF, XAML, Balder, and Farseer Physics Engine / / Gastón C. Hillar |
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Birmingham, U.K., : Packt Pub., 2009 |
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1-282-30505-0 |
9786612305054 |
1-84719-893-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (452 p.) |
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Learn by doing : less theory, more results |
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Computer games - Programming |
Three-dimensional display systems |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Lights, Camera, and Action!; UFOs in the sky!: Invaders; Time for action - preparing the development environment; Time for action - recognizing digital art assets; Time for action - creating the raster digital content; Digital Content Creation tools; Basic elements of a 2D and/or 3D real-time game; Programming responsibilities; Time for action - installing tools to manipulate; scalable digital content; XAML works fine with Silverlight 3; Time for action - creating the scalable digital content in XAML; Previewing and scaling XAML vector graphics |
Time for action - testing the scalable digital contentusing XamlPad; Editing vector illustrations using Expression Design; Preparing a gaming framework; Time for action - creating Silverlight applications; Time for action - building and running Silverlight applications; Programming event handlers in the main page; Time for action - creating XBAP WPF applications; Time for action - building and running the; XBAP WPF applications; Summary; Chapter 2: Working with 2D Characters; Creating an accelerated graphics viewport; Time for action |
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- enabling hardware acceleration |
Time for action - transforming media using the GPUCaching rendered content; Scaling and rotating a vector-based illustration; Time for action - shaking many illustrations at the same time; Running loops faster; Accelerating transforms and blends; Using 2D vectors; Time for action - detecting GPU-acceleration problems; Understanding GPU acceleration limitations; Creating encapsulated object-oriented characters; Time for action - creating User Control classes to hold images; Time for action - displaying images and sprites; Showing a sprite on the screen; Defining the behavior |
Understanding dimensionsManaging resolutions; Screen resolutions; Summary; Chapter 3: Combining Sprites with Backgrounds; The first remake assignment; Time for action - creating sprites based on XAML; vector-based graphics; Defining the relative center point; Time for action - creating a specialized sprite; management class; Taking full advantage of object-oriented capabilities; Preparing the classes for inheritance; Wrapping a UserControl to manage it; Time for action - creating a superclass for some characters; Time for action - creating the subclasses for the characters |
Time for action - creating methods for the game loopCreating objects on the fly; Managing dynamic objects; Time for action - writing the game loop; Animating multiple sprites; Managing a complex game loop; Time for action - detecting collisions between 2D characters; Using colors to paint sprites; Summary; Chapter 4: Working with 3D Characters; The second remake assignment; Time for Action - exporting a 3D model without; considering textures; XAML 3D models; Time for action - from DCC tools to WPF; XBAP WPF applications with 3D content; Time for action - displaying a 3D model in a 2D screen |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A practical guide to creating real-time responsive online 3D games in Silverlight 3 using C#, XBAP WPF, XAML, Balder, and Farseer Physics Engine |
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