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C++ Game Animation Programming - Second Edition

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Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246529
Pages 480 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Michael Dunsky Michael Dunsky
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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
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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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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 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

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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 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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