OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook

OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook

By : Ilya Grinblat, Alex Peterson

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OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook

By: Ilya Grinblat, Alex Peterson

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Overview of this book

OGRE (Object-oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) 3D is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce applications utilizing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. Graphics application development with OGRE 3D may start small, but may soon balloon into monstrously complex beasts, which just can't be all understood at once. This book will help you to easily develop applications using OGRE 3D. OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook will help solve common problems you may face while developing 3D graphics applications using OGRE 3D. You will learn to create various types of Windows applications, scene querying, and visibility analysis among other things from this book. This book includes some advanced recipes involved in developing applications with OGRE 3D. Each recipe deals with adding some specific feature to your application. The book first covers creating various types of Windows applications available for the OGRE developer, creating plugins for customization, and OGRE resources management. You will then learn to efficiently implement various input methods for OGRE applications followed by managing scenes and objects impressively. Lights, special effects, and materials that provide enhancing effects are covered next. Further, character motion and collision detection are included followed by animations and multimedia, which help in producing a thorough professional look. Finally, we wrap it up with scene queries and views. OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook provides a great reference for your OGRE 3D application development needs and helps you to deliver impressive results more quickly and with greater ease.

OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Delving Deep into Application Design

Introduction

Creating a Win32 Ogre application

Creating an MFC Ogre application

Creating an MFC Ogre application with a ribbon

Creating a Windows Forms Ogre application

Creating an Ogre plugin

Creating a custom resource manager

Let Us Be Multimodal

Introduction

Using the keyboard input to navigate an Ogre scene

Using the mouse input to navigate an Ogre scene

Using voice input with static grammar

Using voice input with dynamic grammar

Using text-to-speech to make the application speak

Managing Objects and Scenes

Introduction

Creating terrain from a LandXML file

Creating Delaunay triangulation

Creating manual objects

Creating parametric superellipsoids

Adding meshes on terrain

Adding trees as billboards

Creating and editing a scene

Saving a scene to an XML file

Loading a scene from an XML file

Let There Be Light

Introduction

Creating weather controls

Creating lights

Creating dynamic effects

Managing particle system

Managing shadows

Playing with Materials

Introduction

Using geoimages as terrain textures

Creating transparent materials

Creating dynamic textures

Creating movable text

2D image manipulation

Learning to Move

Introduction

Walking between points

Walking along a path

Collision detection

Converting a 2D path into a 3D path

Walking on terrain

Linked movement

Implementing Animations

Introduction

Creating skeletal animations

Creating morph animations

Creating pose animations

Creating SceneNode animations

Creating numeric value animations

Creating linked animation

Animation using controllers

Creating linked controllers

Blending animations

Creating animated light

Flashy Multimedia

Queries and Views

Zooming to a selected object

Orbiting an object

Selecting objects

Object visibility

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Creating manual objects

In this recipe, we'll show you how to create a Mebius mesh with multiple sections, using a ManualObject. We'll also add menu items to our application's user interface, so that the user can change the material used by each section at runtime.

Getting ready

To follow along with this recipe, open the solution located in the Recipes/Chapter03/ManualObject folder in the code bundle available on the Packt website.

How to do it...

1. First, we create an MFC Ogre application named ManualObject.
2. Next, we create a Mebius mesh with multiple sections using code similar to what we used in the Creating a custom resource manager recipe, from Chapter 1, Delving Deep into Application Design. The Materials array contains the names of all the materials we will be using.
```
Ogre::String Materials[] = 
{
  "Examples/SphereMappedRustySteel",
  "Examples/OgreLogo",
  "Examples/BeachStones",
  "Examples/TrippySkyBox",
  "Examples/SpaceSkyBox",
  "Examples/DynamicCubeMap",
  "Examples/RustySteel...
```

OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook

By : Ilya Grinblat, Alex Peterson

OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook

By: Ilya Grinblat, Alex Peterson

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