- 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
Author
Mário Kašuba
Reviewers
Victor Andrade de Oliveira
Anthony Zhang
Commissioning Editor
Sarah Cullington
Acquisition Editor
Kevin Colaco
Content Development Editor
Govindan K
Technical Editor
Vivek Arora
Copy Editors
Merilyn Pereira
Laxmi Subramanian
Project Coordinator
Sanjeet Rao
Proofreader
Safis Editing
Indexer
Rekha Nair
Graphics
Jason Monteiro
Abhinash Sahu
Production Coordinator
Manu Joseph
Cover Work
Manu Joseph
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