You're reading from Mastering AndEngine Game Development Move beyond basic games and explore the limits of AndEngine

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783981144

Length 278 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Mobile Game Development

Author (1):

Maya Posch

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up the Project FREE CHAPTER

2. Replacing 2D Sprites with 3D Models

3. Physics Engine Integration

4. Frame-based Animation Sequences

5. Skeletal Animations

6. Creating 3D Effects in 2D

7. Static Lighting

8. Dynamic Lighting

9. User Interfaces

10. Shading, Aliasing, and Resolutions

11. Adding Sounds and Effects

12. Building Worlds for Our Project

13. Networking and Latency

14. Adding Custom Functionality

Index

Chapter 14. Adding Custom Functionality

In the preceding chapters, we used many ways to extending the existing functionality of AndEngine's framework. The goal of this chapter is to summarize and explain these techniques to allow you to pick up from where we left off so that you can develop your own extensions.

All of these techniques are meant to be noninvasive, which is to say that they do not modify or, in any way, alter AndEngine's code. Like the rather severe features we added in Chapter 2, Replacing 2D Sprites with 3D Models—which we accomplished without changing a single line of AndEngine code—we can even transform AndEngine to fit our whims without having to dive head-first into modifying its code.

In this chapter, we will cover these topics:

Extending Java and native C/C++ code
Adding a plugin system in Java and native code
Handling native libraries

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Authors (1)

Maya Posch

Maya Posch is a senior C++ developer with more than 15 years of experience. Discovering the joys of programming early on, and later the joys of electronics, she has always expressed a profound interest in technology, a passion that she gladly shares with others. Describing herself as a C developer who happens to like C++ and Ada, she likes to seek the limits of what can be done with the minimum of code and hardware to accomplish everything that is cool, new, and exciting. She also enjoys FPGA development, AI, and robotics research, in addition to creative writing, music, and drawing.

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