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Building a 3D Game with LibGDX

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Building a 3D Game with LibGDX

Overview of this book

LibGDX is a hugely popular open source, cross-platform, Java-based game development framework built for the demands of cross-platform game development. This book will teach readers how the LibGDX framework uses its 3D rendering API with the OpenGL wrapper, in combination with Bullet Physics, 3D Particles, and Shaders to develop and deploy a game application to different platforms You will start off with the basic Intellij environment, workflow and set up a LibGDX project with necessary APIs for 3D development. You will then go through LibGDX’s 3D rendering API main features and talk about the camera used for 3D. Our next step is to put everything together to build a basic 3D game with Shapes, including basic gameplay mechanics and basic UI. Next you will go through modeling, rigging, and animation in Blender. We will then talk about refining mechanics, new input implementations, implementing enemy 3D models, mechanics, and gameplay balancing. The later part of this title will help you to manage secondary resources like audio, music and add 3D particles in the game to make the game more realistic. You will finally test and deploy the app on a multitude of different platforms, ready to start developing your own titles how you want!
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Performance improvements on the enemy model


We now want to work a bit on performance. Though there's quite a lot of performance work we can do for our game, there's one big improvement we can do with the enemy model, and another small improvement that can be useful for bigger games, frustum culling.

Fire up EntityFactory: 
public class EntityFactory { 
   private static Model playerModel, enemyModel; 
   private static Texture playerTexture; 
   private static ModelBuilder modelBuilder; 
   private static ModelData enemyModelData; 
   private static ModelComponent enemyModelComponent; 
   ... 
   public static Entity createEnemy(BulletSystem bulletSystem,
       float x, float y, float z) { 
       Entity entity = new Entity(); 
       ModelLoader<?> modelLoader = new G3dModelLoader(new 
       JsonReader()); 
       if (enemyModel == null) { 
           enemyModelData =
           modelLoader.loadModelData(Gdx...