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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 – shaded objects


Let's convert our last program so that it uses shaders. To make the cube better, we will implement a smooth lighting model using the Phong algorithm. At the same time, we will learn to use some helper classes that Qt offers for use with OpenGL.

The basic goals for this mini-project are as follows:

  • Use vertex and fragment shaders for rendering a complex object

  • Handle model, view, and projection matrices

  • Use attribute arrays for faster drawing

Start by creating a new subclass of AbstractGLScene. Let's give it the following interface:

class ShaderGLScene : public QObject, public AbstractGLScene {
  Q_OBJECT
public:
  ShaderGLScene(SceneGLWindow *wnd);
  void initialize();
  void paint();
protected:
  void initializeObjectData();
private:
  struct ScenePoint {
    QVector3D coords;
    QVector3D normal;
    ScenePoint(const QVector3D &c, const QVector3D &n);
  };
  QOpenGLShaderProgram m_shader;
  QMatrix4x4 m_modelMatrix;
  QMatrix4x4 m_viewMatrix;
  QMatrix4x4...