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Game Physics Cookbook

By : Gabor Szauer
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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

Point and AABB


If we think of an Axis Aligned Bounding Box (AABB) as a Min and Max point, a test point is only inside the AABB if it is greater than Min and less than Max. Similarly, to get the closest point to a test point on the surface of the AABB, we just have to clamp the test point to the min and max points of the AABB:

Getting ready

We are going to implement a function to test if a point is contained within an Axis Aligned Bounding Box. This test will compare the point component-wise to the min and max points of the AABB. We are also going to implement a function to find the point on the Axis Aligned Bounding Box closest to a given test point. To find the closest point, we will clamp the test point to the min and max points of the AABB, component-wise.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps to implement point tests for an AABB:

  1. Declare PointInAABB and ClosestPoint in Geometry3D.h:

    bool PointInAABB(const Point& point, const AABB& aabb);
    Point ClosestPoint(const AABB&aabb,...