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Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide

Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Pavel Strakhov, Lorenz Haas, Witold Wysota
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Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide

Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide

By: Pavel Strakhov, Lorenz Haas, Witold Wysota
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Overview of this book

Qt is the leading cross-platform toolkit for all significant desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms and is becoming popular by the day, especially on mobile and embedded devices. It's a powerful tool that perfectly fits the needs of game developers. This book will help you learn the basics of Qt and will equip you with the necessary toolsets to build apps and games. The book begins by how to create an application and prepare a working environment for both desktop and mobile platforms. You will learn how to use built-in Qt widgets and Form Editor to create a GUI application and then learn the basics of creating graphical interfaces and Qt's core concepts. Further, you'll learn to enrich your games by implementing network connectivity and employing scripting. You will learn about Qt's capabilities for handling strings and files, data storage, and serialization. Moving on, you will learn about the new Qt Gamepad module and how to add it in your game and then delve into OpenGL and Vulcan, and how it can be used in Qt applications to implement hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics. You will then explore various facets of Qt Quick: how it can be used in games to add game logic, add game physics, and build astonishing UIs for your games. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skillset to develop interesting games with Qt.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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Introduction to Qt
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Introduction to Qt
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A journey through time
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The cross-platform programming
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Qt versions
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Structure of Qt framework
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Choosing the right license
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Summary
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Installation
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Installation
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Installing the Qt SDK
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Qt Creator
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Summary
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Qt GUI Programming
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Qt GUI Programming
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Creating GUI in Qt
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Layouts
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Signals and slots
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Creating a widget for the tic-tac-toe board
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Advanced form editor usage
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Polishing the application
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Summary
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Custom 2D Graphics with Graphics View
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Custom 2D Graphics with Graphics View
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Graphics View architecture
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Coordinate systems
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Overview of functionality
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Custom items
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Widgets inside Graphics View
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Optimization
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Animations in Graphics View
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Animations in Graphics View
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The jumping elephant or how to animate the scene
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The Animation framework
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Property animations
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Adding gamepad support
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Item collision detection
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Finishing the game
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Summary
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Qt Core Essentials
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Qt Core Essentials
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Text handling
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Containers
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Data storage
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Networking
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Networking
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QNetworkAccessManager
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Connecting to Google, Facebook, Twitter, and co.
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Controlling the connectivity state
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Communicating between games
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Using UDP
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Custom Widgets
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Custom Widgets
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Raster and vector graphics
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Raster painting
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Creating a custom widget
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Working with images
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Painting text
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Optimizing widget painting
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Implementing a chess game
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OpenGL and Vulkan in Qt applications
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OpenGL and Vulkan in Qt applications
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Introduction to OpenGL with Qt
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Using OpenGL in immediate mode
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Modern OpenGL with Qt
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Vulkan in Qt applications
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Combining OpenGL or Vulkan with Qt Widgets
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Scripting
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Scripting
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Why script?
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Evaluating JavaScript expressions
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Exposing C++ objects and functions to JavaScript code
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Creating a JavaScript scripting game
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Python scripting
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Introduction to Qt Quick
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Introduction to Qt Quick
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Declarative UI programming
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Overview of QML types provided by Qt
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Qt Quick Designer
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Qt Quick and C++
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Bringing life into static user interfaces
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Customization in Qt Quick
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Customization in Qt Quick
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Creating a custom QML component
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Event handlers
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Creating advanced QML components
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Dynamic and lazy loading of QML objects
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Imperative painting on Canvas using JavaScript
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Using C++ classes as QML components
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Animations in Qt Quick Games
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Animations in Qt Quick Games
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Animation framework in Qt Quick
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Quick game programming
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Advanced Visual Effects in Qt Quick
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Advanced Visual Effects in Qt Quick
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Making the game more attractive
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Custom OpenGL-based Qt Quick items
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Using QPainter interface in Qt Quick
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3D Graphics with Qt
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3D Graphics with Qt
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Qt 3D overview
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Rendering 3D objects
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Handling user input
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Performing animations
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Integration with 3D modeling software
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Working with Qt 3D using C++
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Integration with Qt Widgets and Qt Quick
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Python scripting

Qt QML is an environment that is designed to be part of the Qt world. Since not everyone knows or likes JavaScript, we will present another language that can easily be used to provide scripting environments for games that are created with Qt. Just be aware that this will not be an in-depth description of the environment—we will just show you the basics that can provide foundations for your own research.

A popular language used for scripting is Python. There are two variants of Qt bindings that are available for Python: PySide2 and PyQt. PySide2 is the official binding that is available under LGPL. PyQt is a third-party library that is available under GPL v3 and a commercial license.

PyQt is not available under LGPL, so for commercial closed-source products, you need to obtain a commercial license from Riverbank computing!

These bindings allow you to use...

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