Start Your Engines

Developing Driving and Racing Games

Jim Parker

434 pages, parution le 23/08/2005

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Résumé

Provides everything you need to create your own driving and racing games!

Start Your Engines is the first hands-on programming guide that shows you how to build and customize driving and racing games. It features the graphics, physics, AI, user interface, collision detection, and 3D techniques used to create this popular genre of games. You'll learn how to set up different types of road conditions, create opponents, set up road hazards, generate weather conditions, manage collisions, create intelligent opponents, design unique terrains, and much more. Presented in a unique step-by-step, hands-on, construction-kit approach, this book will show you how to create games that you can play for hours of enjoyment. You'll develop live-action interactive driving and racing games with a unique three-part approach. In part 1, you'll learn how to build a model for a racing game and then apply the physics to create a simple 2D (flat) game. In part 2, you'll learn how to go from 2D to 3D with the same game concepts, and then use modeling tips and tricks to begin customizing features. In part 3, you'll apply the concepts of 3D driving games as you create an interactive dune buggy race that takes place on the bizarre and treacherous landscape of Mars.

In this book you will learn:

The nuts and bolts of creating driving and racing games
Tips and techniques from leading 3D game developers to create challenging driving and racing models
How to use a customizable driving and racing game engine
How to develop games that utilize varying driving conditions and challenging terrains
How to create a full-featured dune buggy racing game that takes place on the unique terrain of Mars, with all the physics and AI background presented in an interactive, step-by-step learning format

This book is written for:

Programmers who want to create their own high quality driving and racing games.
All programmers who want to learn how to create games.

L'auteur - Jim Parker

Dr. Jim Parker (Alberta, Canada), an expert on driving and racing games, has been a programmer and game designer for many years. In 2000, he pioneered Canada's first curriculum to train and educate aspiring game developers at the University of Calgary in conjunction with Radical Entertainment of Vancouver B.C.Jim has spent many years working in related areas, including graphics, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and computer audio. He has written two previous top-selling books on computer vision and image processing.

Sommaire

Essentials of Developing Driving and Racing Games
- Starting Your Engines-Basic Design Elements
- Game Architecture for Driving and Racing Games
- Basic Graphics for Driving and Racing Games
- Building a Basic 3D Driving Game
Building More Realistic Simulations
- Game AI and Collision Detection
- Incorporating Intelligent Opponents
- Audio for Driving and Racing Games
- Using Ambient Traffic
- Physics for Driving and Racing Games
- Simulating Continuous Time
Advanced Techniques
- Cinematography for Driving and Racing Games
- Creating Terrains
- Designing the Manic Man Racer Game
- Coding the Manic Mars Racer Game
- The Bonus Game-Charged!

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Paraglyph Press
Auteur(s)	Jim Parker
Parution	23/08/2005
Nb. de pages	434
Format	17,5 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	754g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781933097015
ISBN13	978-1-933097-01-5