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SFML Blueprints

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SFML Blueprints
May, 2015 | 298 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
SFML Blueprints
SFML Blueprints
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Preparing the Environment
Preparing the Environment
C++11
SFML
Installation of a C++11 compiler
Installing CMake
Installing SFML 2.2
Summary
2
General Game Architecture, User Inputs, and Resource Management
General Game Architecture, User Inputs, and Resource Management
General structure of a game
Managing user inputs
Keeping track of resources
Summary
3
Making an Entire 2D Game
Making an Entire 2D Game
Turning our application to an Asteroid clone
Modifying our application
Designing our game
Building a Tetris clone
Summary
4
Playing with Physics
Playing with Physics
A physics engine – késako?
Physics engine comparing game engine
Using Box2D
Pairing Box2D and SFML
Adding physics to a game
Summary
5
Playing with User Interfaces
Playing with User Interfaces
What is a GUI?
Adding a menu to the game
Using SFGUI
Summary
6
Boost Your Code Using Multithreading
Boost Your Code Using Multithreading
What is multithreading?
Thread functionality
Adding multithreading to our games
Summary
7
Building a Real-time Tower Defense Game from Scratch – Part 1
Building a Real-time Tower Defense Game from Scratch – Part 1
The goal of the game
Building animations
Building a generic Tile Map
Building an entity system
Building the game logic
Summary
8
Build a Real-time Tower Defense Game from Scratch – Part 2, Networking
Build a Real-time Tower Defense Game from Scratch – Part 2, Networking
Network architectures
Network communication using sockets
Creating a communication protocol
Modifying our game
Adding data persistence to the game
Summary
Index
Index

Chapter 4. Playing with Physics

In the previous chapter, we built several games, including a Tetris clone. In this chapter, we will add physics into this game and turn it into a new one. By doing this, we will learn:

  • What is a physics engine

  • How to install and use the Box2D library

  • How to pair the physics engine with SFML for the display

  • How to add physics in the game

In this chapter, we will learn the magic of physics. We will also do some mathematics but relax, it's for conversion only. Now, let's go!

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