Book Description
Over 70 recipes that will help you master the elements and best practices required to build a modern game engine using Lua
In Detail
The Lua language allows developers to create everything from simple to advanced applications and to create the games they want. Creating a good game is an art, and using the right tools and knowledge is essential in making game development easier.
This book will guide you through each part of building your game engine and will help you understand how computer games are built. The book starts with simple game concepts used mainly in 2D side-scroller games, and moves on to advanced 3D games. Plus, the scripting capabilities of the Lua language give you full control over game.
By the end of this book, you will have learned all about the components that go into a game, created a game, and solved the problems that may arise along the way.
What You Will Learn
- Set up OpenGL graphics along with GLSL shaders
- Use lighting and graphical effects
- Create animated game characters using Box2D library
- Load and use textures, fonts, and 3D models
- Design and implement a graphical user interface
- Integrate simple Artificial Intelligence for pathfinding
- Implement networking support
- Use data structures in programming
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Table of Contents
- Lua Game Development Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Lua Game Development Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Basics of the Game Engine
- Introduction
- Preparing a basic file structure for the game engine
- Making a stack
- Making a queue
- Making a prioritized queue
- Extending ipairs for use in sparse arrays
- Creating Lua modules
- Handling errors with pcall, xpcall, and assert
- Using Lua with existing projects written in C/C++
- Getting LuaSDL for libSDL 1.2
- Designing the main application loop with LuaSDL
- 2. Events
- 3. Graphics – Common Methods
- Introduction
- Creating a window in libSDL
- Creating surfaces
- Surfaces manipulation
- Using colors
- Cursor manipulation
- Initializing the graphics mode with OpenGL
- Getting OpenGL information
- Using OpenGL extensions with GLEW and Lua
- Loading images with SDL_image
- Creating textures
- Loading and using bitmap fonts
- Loading and using TrueType fonts
- Displaying the text
- Creating texture atlas with the rover-design pattern
- Using tiles and tilesets in the game
- 4. Graphics – Legacy Method with OpenGL 1.x–2.1
- 5. Graphics – Modern Method with OpenGL 3.0+
- 6. The User Interface
- 7. Physics and Game Mechanics
- Introduction
- Using Box2D with Lua
- Using vector math
- Choosing the correct vector scaling for the physics engine
- Creating static and dynamic objects
- Setting up object properties
- Moving objects
- Setting up bullets
- Running the physics simulation
- Detecting object collision
- Setting up object collision filtering
- Setting up object joints
- 8. Artificial Intelligence
- 9. Sounds and Networking
- Index