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Game Programming Using Qt: Beginner's Guide

By : Witold Wysota, Witold Wysota, Lorenz Haas
Book Image

Game Programming Using Qt: Beginner's Guide

By: Witold Wysota, Witold Wysota, Lorenz Haas

Overview of this book

Qt is the leading cross-platform toolkit for all significant desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms and is becoming more popular by the day, especially on mobile and embedded devices. Despite its simplicity, it's a powerful tool that perfectly fits game developers’ needs. Using Qt and Qt Quick, it is easy to build fun games or shiny user interfaces. You only need to create your game once and deploy it on all major platforms like iOS, Android, and WinRT without changing a single source file. The book begins with a brief introduction to creating an application and preparing a working environment for both desktop and mobile platforms. It then dives deeper into the basics of creating graphical interfaces and Qt core concepts of data processing and display before you try creating a game. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn to enrich your games by implementing network connectivity and employing scripting. We then delve into Qt Quick, OpenGL, and various other tools to add game logic, design animation, add game physics, and build astonishing UI for the games. Towards the final chapters, you’ll learn to exploit mobile device features such as accelerators and sensors to build engaging user experiences. If you are planning to learn about Qt and its associated toolsets to build apps and games, this book is a must have.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Game Programming Using Qt
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – running the Affine Transformations project


Let's try building and running the project to check whether the building environment is configured properly. First, click on the icon in the action bar directly over the green triangle icon to open the build configuration popup, as shown in the following screenshot:

The exact content that you get may vary depending on your installation, but in general, on the left-hand side you will see the list of kits configured for the project and on the right-hand side you will see the list of build configurations defined for that kit. Choose a kit for your desktop installation and any of the configurations defined for that kit. You can adjust configurations by switching Qt Creator to the project management mode by clicking on the Projects button in the working mode selector bar. There, you can add and remove kits from the project and manage build configurations for each of the kits, as shown in the following screenshot:

You can adjust, build...