- jMonkeyEngine 3.0 Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- jMonkeyEngine 3.0 Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. SDK Game Development Hub
- Introduction
- Setting up a project
- Importing a model
- Using Scene Composer
- Modifying heightmaps with Terrain Editor
- Adding a sky box and lighting
- Adding water using a filter
- Adding some ambient audio
- Creating bitmap fonts with Font Creator
- Retrieving an attachment node
- Using ParticleEmitter – Soaring Birds
- An advanced ParticleEmitter class
- 2. Cameras and Game Controls
- Introduction
- Creating a reusable character control
- Attaching an input AppState object
- Firing in FPS
- Firing non-instant bullets
- Creating an RTS camera AppState object
- Selecting units in RTS
- Making the camera follow units
- Following a character with ChaseCamera
- Adding a game controller or joystick input
- Leaning around corners
- Detecting cover automatically in a third-person game
- 3. World Building
- 4. Mastering Character Animations
- Introduction
- Previewing animations in SDK
- Creating an animation manager control
- Extending the animation control
- Handling jump animations
- Creating a custom animation - leaning
- Creating a subanimation
- Lip syncing and facial expressions
- Eye movement
- Location-dependent animation – edge check
- Aligning feet with ground – inverse kinematics
- 5. Artificial Intelligence
- 6. GUI with Nifty GUI
- 7. Networking with SpiderMonkey
- 8. Physics with Bullet
- 9. Taking Our Game to the Next Level
- Introduction
- Creating a muzzle flash using ParticleEmitter
- Creating a trigger system
- Creating a timer trigger
- Adding an interaction trigger
- Controlling AI with triggers
- Creating a dynamic skybox with a moving sun
- Improving a scene with postprocessing filters
- Performing complex movements with MotionPaths
- Cutscenes using cinematics
- Using a positional audio and environmental effects
- A. Information Fragments
- Index
Rickard Edén is a Java and Android development consultant, game developer, and lifelong game enthusiast, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Having worked in the past as a designer in the gaming industry, Rickard has worked on a number of different genres and picked up tricks of the trade from many disciplines. He has a pragmatic approach to programming and has developed games for many years using jMonkeyEngine.
It is now his intention to help other developers by sharing what he's learned so far with this book.
Writing this book has been a tremendous experience, and it certainly could not have been possible without other people clearing the way.
If I have been the storyteller, the heroes of the book are the people who have created jMonkeyEngine. From its first incarnation until now, the third, when it's a fully fledged game development environment.
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