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C++ Game Animation Programming - Second Edition

You're reading from C++ Game Animation Programming - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Dec 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803246529

Pages 480 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Authors (2):

Michael Dunsky

Gabor Szauer

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Building a Graphics Renderer

2. Chapter 1: Creating the Game Window

3. Chapter 2: Building an OpenGL 4 Renderer

4. Chapter 3: Building a Vulkan Renderer

5. Chapter 4: Working with Shaders

6. Chapter 5: Adding Dear ImGui to Show Valuable Information

7. Part 2: Mathematics Roundup

8. Chapter 6: Understanding Vector and Matrix

9. Chapter 7: A Primer on Quaternions and Splines

10. Part 3: Working with Models and Animations

11. Chapter 8: Loading Models in the glTF Format

12. Chapter 9: The Model Skeleton and Skin

13. Chapter 10: About Poses, Frames, and Clips

14. Chapter 11: Blending between Animations

15. Part 4: Advancing Your Code to the Next Level

16. Chapter 12: Cleaning Up the User Interface

17. Chapter 13: Implementing Inverse Kinematics

18. Chapter 14: Creating Instanced Crowds

19. Chapter 15: Measuring Performance and Optimizing the Code

20. Index

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21. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Cleaning Up the User Interface

Welcome to Chapter 12! In the previous chapter, we integrated three different kinds of animation blending into the existing code. We also added some control elements for easy manipulation of the blending types and properties.

In this chapter, we will clean up the user interface by using more ImGui elements. We will start with an overview of various types of UI controls and their intended usage. Then, two ImGui elements, a combo box and a radio button, will be introduced. The function of these two elements is well known, and we will look at how to use them in code.

Then, we will check the drawing of the so-called ImGui plots. Plots are graphical diagrams and are perfect for visualizing a short, graphical history of numerical values, such as the FPS counter or the timer values.

At the end of the chapter, we will have a cleaner user interface for our tool, using more appropriate elements to simplify the usage of the character animation program...

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Authors (2)

Michael Dunsky

Michael Dunsky is an educated electronics technician, game developer, and console porting programmer with more than 20 years of programming experience. He started at the age of 14 with BASIC, adding on his way Assembly language, C, C++, Java, Python, VHDL, OpenGL, GLSL, and Vulkan to his portfolio. During his career, he also gained extensive knowledge in virtual machines, server operation, infrastructure automation, and other DevOps topics. Michael holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the FernUniversität in Hagen, focused on computer graphics, parallel programming and software systems.

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Gabor Szauer

Gabor Szauer has been making games since 2010. He graduated from Full Sail University in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in game development. Gabor maintains an active Twitter presence, and maintains a programming-oriented game development blog. Gabor's previously published books are Game Physics Programming Cookbook and Lua Quick Start Guide, both published by Packt.

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