JMonkeyEngine 3.0 Cookbook

JMonkeyEngine 3.0 Cookbook

By : Rickard Eden

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JMonkeyEngine 3.0 Cookbook

By: Rickard Eden

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Overview of this book

jMonkeyEngine 3.0 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Free Chapter

SDK Game Development Hub

Modifying heightmaps with Terrain Editor

Adding a sky box and lighting

Adding water using a filter

Adding some ambient audio

Creating bitmap fonts with Font Creator

Retrieving an attachment node

Using ParticleEmitter – Soaring Birds

An advanced ParticleEmitter class

Cameras and Game Controls

Introduction

Creating a reusable character control

Attaching an input AppState object

Firing in FPS

Firing non-instant bullets

Creating an RTS camera AppState object

Selecting units in RTS

Making the camera follow units

Following a character with ChaseCamera

Adding a game controller or joystick input

Leaning around corners

Detecting cover automatically in a third-person game

World Building

Introduction

Using noise to generate a terrain

Lighting your world and providing it with dynamic lights

Deforming a terrain in real time

Automating trees' distribution

Endless worlds and infinite space

Flowing water with cellular automata

The essentials of a cube-based world

Mastering Character Animations

Introduction

Previewing animations in SDK

Creating an animation manager control

Extending the animation control

Handling jump animations

Creating a custom animation - leaning

Creating a subanimation

Lip syncing and facial expressions

Eye movement

Location-dependent animation – edge check

Aligning feet with ground – inverse kinematics

Artificial Intelligence

Introduction

Creating a reusable AI control class

Sensing – vision

Sensing – hearing

Decision making – Finite State Machine

Creating the AI using cover

Generating NavMesh in SDK

Pathfinding – using NavMesh

Controlling groups of AI

Pathfinding – our own A* pathfinder

GUI with Nifty GUI

Introduction

Initializing Nifty and managing an options menu

Loading the screen

Creating an RPG dialog screen

Implementing a game console

Handling a game message queue

Creating an inventory screen

Customizing the input and settings page

Using offscreen rendering for a minimap

Networking with SpiderMonkey

Introduction

Setting up a server and client

Handling basic messaging

Making a networked game – Battleships

Implementing a network code for FPS

Loading a level

Interpolating between player positions

Firing over a network

Optimizing the bandwidth and avoiding cheating

Physics with Bullet

Introduction

Creating a pushable door

Building a rocket engine

Ballistic projectiles and arrows

Handling multiple gravity sources

Self-balancing using RotationalLimitMotors

The principles of a bridge-building game

Networked physics

Taking Our Game to the Next Level

Introduction

Creating a muzzle flash using ParticleEmitter

Creating a trigger system

Creating a timer trigger

Adding an interaction trigger

Controlling AI with triggers

Creating a dynamic skybox with a moving sun

Improving a scene with postprocessing filters

Performing complex movements with MotionPaths

Cutscenes using cinematics

Using a positional audio and environmental effects

Information Fragments

Introduction

Downloading the plugins

Enabling nightly builds

Adding Bullet physics to the application

Jaime animation frames for phonemes

The AnimationEvent patch

The ImageGenerator class

The CellUtil class

Index

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Chapter 2. Cameras and Game Controls

This chapter contains the following recipes:

Creating a reusable character control
Attaching an input AppState object
Firing in FPS
Firing non-instant bullets
Creating an RTS camera AppState object
Selecting units in RTS
Making the camera follow units
Following a character with ChaseCamera
Adding a game controller and joystick input
Leaning around corners
Detecting cover automatically in a third-person game

JMonkeyEngine 3.0 Cookbook

By : Rickard Eden

JMonkeyEngine 3.0 Cookbook

By: Rickard Eden

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