OGRE 3D 1.7 Beginner's Guide

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Installing Ogre 3D
  • Downloading and installing Ogre 3D
  • Time for action – downloading and installing Ogre 3D
    • Different versions of the Ogre 3D SDK
    • Exploring the SDK
  • The Ogre 3D samples
  • Time for action – building the Ogre 3D samples
  • The first application with Ogre 3D
  • Time for action – starting the project and configuring the IDE
    • ExampleApplication
  • Loading the first model
  • Time for action – loading a model
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: The Ogre Scene Graph
  • Creating a scene node
  • Time for action – creating a scene node with Ogre 3D
    • How to work with the RootSceneNode
    • 3D space
    • Scene graph
  • Setting the position of a scene node
  • Time for action – setting the position of a scene node
  • Rotating a scene node
  • Time for action – rotating a scene node
  • Scaling a scene node
  • Time for action – scaling a scene node
  • Using a scene graph the clever way
  • Time for action – building a tree using scene nodes
  • Have a go hero – adding a following ninja
  • Different spaces in a scene
  • Time for action – translating in World space
    • Different spaces in a 3D scene
  • Translating in local space
  • Time for action – translating in local and parent space
  • Rotating in different spaces
  • Time for action – rotating in different spaces
  • Scaling in different spaces
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Camera, Light, and Shadow
  • Creating a plane
  • Time for action – creating a plane
    • Representing models in 3D
  • Adding a point light
  • Time for action – adding a point light
  • Adding a spotlight
  • Time for action – creating a spotlight
    • Spotlights
  • Directional lights
  • Time for action – creating a directional light
  • The missing thing
  • Time for action – finding out what's missing
  • Adding shadows
  • Time for action – adding shadows
  • Creating a camera
  • Time for action – creating a camera
  • Creating a viewport
  • Time for action – doing something that illustrates the thing "in action"
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Getting User Input and Using the Frame Listener
  • Preparing a scene
  • Time for action – preparing a scene
  • Adding movement to the scene
  • Time for action – adding movement to the scene
    • FrameListener
  • Modifying the code to be time based rather than frame based
  • Time for action – adding time-based movement
  • Adding input support
  • Time for action – adding input support
    • Window handle
  • Adding movement to the model
  • Time for action – controlling Sinbad
  • Adding a camera
  • Time for action – making the camera work again
    • Mouse state
  • Adding wireframe and point render mode
  • Time for action – adding wireframe and point render mode
  • Adding a timer
  • Time for action – adding a timer
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Animating models with Ogre 3D
  • Adding animations
  • Time for action – adding animations
  • Playing two animations at the same time
  • Time for action – adding a second animation
  • Let's walk a bit
  • Time for action – combining user control and animation
  • Adding swords
  • Time for action – adding swords
    • Animations
  • Printing all the animations a model has
  • Time for action – printing all animations
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Scene Managers
  • Starting with a blank sheet
  • Time for action – creating a blank sheet
  • Getting the scene manager's type
  • Time for action – printing the scene manager's type
    • What does a scene manger do?
    • Octree
  • Another scene manager type
  • Time for action – using another scene manager
    • ResourceManager
    • setWorldGeometry
  • Creating our own model
  • Time for action – creating a model for displaying blades of grass
    • Manual object
    • Texture mapping
  • Adding volume to the blades of grass
  • Time for action – using more triangles for volume
  • Creating a field of grass
  • Time for action – building a field of grass
  • Exploring the name scheme
  • Time for action – printing the names
  • Static geometry
  • Time for action – using static geometry
    • Rendering pipeline
    • Indices
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Materials with Ogre 3D
  • Creating a white quad
  • Time for action – creating the quad
  • Creating our own material
  • Time for action – creating a material
    • Materials
  • Texture coordinates take two
  • Time for action – preparing our quad
  • Using the wrapping mode with another texture
  • Time for action – adding a rock texture
  • Using another texture mode
  • Time for action – adding a rock texture
  • Using the mirror mode
  • Time for action – using the mirror mode
  • Using the border mode
  • Time for action – using the border mode
  • Changing the border color
  • Time for action – changing the border color
  • Scrolling a texture
  • Time for action – preparing to scroll a texture
  • Time for action – scrolling a texture
  • Animated scrolling
  • Time for action – adding animated scrolling
  • Inheriting materials
  • Time for action – inheriting from a material
  • Fixed Function Pipeline and shaders
    • Render Pipeline
  • Time for action – our first shader application
    • Writing a shader
  • Texturing with shaders
  • Time for action – using textures in shaders
    • What happens in the render pipeline?
  • Interpolating color values
  • Time for action – using colors to see interpolation
  • Replacing the quad with a model
  • Time for action – replacing the quad with a model
  • Making the model pulse on the x-axis
  • Time for action – adding a pulse
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: The Compositor Framework
  • Preparing a scene
  • Time for action – preparing the scene
  • Adding the first compositor
  • Time for action – adding a compositor
    • How the compositor works
  • Modifying the texture
  • Time for action – modifying the texture
  • Inverting the image
  • Time for action – inverting the image
  • Combining compositors
  • Time for action – combining two compositor effects
  • Decreasing the texture count
  • Time for action – decreasing the texture count
  • Combining compositors in code
  • Time for action – combing two compositors in code
  • Something more complex
  • Time for action – complex compositor
  • Changing the number of pixels
  • Time for action – putting the number of pixels in the material
  • Setting the variable in code
  • Time for action – setting the variable from the application
  • Changing the number of pixels while running the application
  • Time for action – modifying the number of pixels with user input
  • Adding a split screen
  • Time for action – adding a split screen
  • Putting it all together
  • Time for action – selecting a color channel
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: The Ogre 3D Startup Sequence
  • Starting Ogre 3D
  • Time for action – starting Ogre 3D
  • Adding resources
  • Time for action – loading the Sinbad mesh
  • Using resources.cfg
  • Time for action – using resources.cfg to load our models
    • Structure of a configuration file
  • Creating an application class
  • Time for action – creating a class
  • Adding a FrameListener
  • Time for action – adding a FrameListener
  • Investigating the FrameListener functionality
  • Time for action – experimenting with the FrameListener implementation
  • Time for action – returning true in the frameStarted function
    • Double buffering
  • Time for action – returning true in the frameRenderingQueued function
  • Time for action – returning true in the frameEnded function
  • Adding input
  • Time for action – adding input
  • Our own main loop
  • Time for action – using our own rendering loop
  • Adding a camera (again)
  • Time for action – adding a frame listener
  • Adding compositors
  • Time for action – adding compositors
  • Adding a plane
  • Time for action – adding a plane and a light
  • Adding user control
  • Time for action – controlling the model with the arrow keys
  • Adding animation
  • Time for action – adding animation
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Particle Systems and Extending Ogre 3D
  • Adding a particle system
  • Time for action – adding a particle system
    • What is a particle system?
  • Creating a simple particle system
  • Time for action – creating a particle system
  • Some more parameters
  • Time for action – some new parameters
  • Other parameters
  • Time for action – time to live and color range
  • Turning it on and off again
  • Time for action – adding intervals to a particle system
  • Adding affectors
  • Time for action – adding a scaler affector
  • Changing colors
  • Time for action – changing the color
  • Two-way changing
  • Time for action – change depending on the lifetime of a particle
  • Even more complex color manipulations
  • Time for action – using complex color manipulation
  • Adding randomness
  • Time for action – adding randomness
  • Deflector
  • Time for action – using the deflector plane
  • Other emitter types
  • Time for action – using a box emitter
  • Emitting with a ring
  • Time for action – using a ring to emit particles
  • At the end, we would like some fireworks
  • Time for action – adding fireworks
  • Extending Ogre 3D
    • Speedtree
    • Hydrax
    • Caelum
    • Particle Universe
    • GUIs
    • CEGUI
    • BetaGUI
    • QuickGUI
    • Berkelium
  • Summary
  • The end

• Appendix: Pop Quiz Answers
  • Chapter 1
    • Installing Ogre 3D
  • Chapter 2
    • Setting up the Environment
  • Chapter 3
    • Felix Gogo
  • Chapter 4
    • Felix Gogo
  • Chapter 5
    • The Book Inventory Bundle
  • Chapter 7
  • The Bookshelf: First Stab
  • Chapter 9
    • The Ogre 3D Startup Sequence
  • Chapter 10
    • How About a Graphical Interface?

• Index

Felix Kerger

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