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Game Physics Cookbook

By : Gabor Szauer
Book Image

Game Physics Cookbook

By: Gabor Szauer

Overview of this book

Physics is really important for game programmers who want to add realism and functionality to their games. Collision detection in particular is a problem that affects all game developers, regardless of the platform, engine, or toolkit they use. This book will teach you the concepts and formulas behind collision detection. You will also be taught how to build a simple physics engine, where Rigid Body physics is the main focus, and learn about intersection algorithms for primitive shapes. You’ll begin by building a strong foundation in mathematics that will be used throughout the book. We’ll guide you through implementing 2D and 3D primitives and show you how to perform effective collision tests for them. We then pivot to one of the harder areas of game development—collision detection and resolution. Further on, you will learn what a Physics engine is, how to set up a game window, and how to implement rendering. We’ll explore advanced physics topics such as constraint solving. You’ll also find out how to implement a rudimentary physics engine, which you can use to build an Angry Birds type of game or a more advanced game. By the end of the book, you will have implemented all primitive and some advanced collision tests, and you will be able to read on geometry and linear Algebra formulas to take forward to your own games!
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Game Physics Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgements
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Adjugate matrix


The adjugate of any order matrix is the transpose of its cofactor matrix. The adjugate is sometimes referred to as adjoint:

Getting ready

We already know how to take the cofactor of a matrix and how to transpose the matrix. Implementing the adjugate function is as easy as calling our existing cofactor and transpose functions.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to implement functions which return the adjugate matrix of two, three and four dimensional square matrices:

  1. Add the declaration for adjugate for all three matrices to matrices.h:

    mat2 Adjugate(const mat2& mat);
    mat3 Adjugate(const mat3& mat);
    mat4 Adjugate(const mat4& mat);
  2. Implement all three of the adjugate functions in matrices.cpp:

    mat2 Adjugate(const mat2& mat) {
        return Transpose(Cofactor(mat));
    }
    mat3 Adjugate(const mat3& mat) {
        return Transpose(Cofactor(mat));
    }
    mat4 Adjugate(const mat4& mat) {
        return Transpose(Cofactor(mat));
    }

How it works…

The adjugate matrix utilizes two functions...