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Learning game AI programming with Lua : leverage the power of Lua programming to create game AI that focuses on motion, animation, and tactics /
If you are a game developer or a general programmer who wishes to focus on programming systems and techniques to build your game AI without creating low-level interfaces in a game engine, then this book is for you. Knowledge of C++ will come in handy to debug the entirety of the AI sandbox and expan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, UK :
Packt Publishing,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Community experience distilled.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with AI Sandbox; Introduction to AI sandbox; Understanding the sandbox; The project layout; The Premake build; Compiling the sandbox with Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012/2013; Open source libraries; Open source tools; Lua IDE
- Decoda; Running AI sandbox inside Decoda; Setting up a new Decoda project; Debugging Lua scripts; Decoda Watch window; Decoda Call Stack window; The Decoda Virtual Machines window; Simultaneous Lua and C++ debugging
- Visual Studio
- Attach to ProcessDecoda
- Attach to Process; Decoda
- Attach System Debugger; Associating Lua scripts from code with Decoda; The Lua virtual machine; The Lua stack; Lua primitives; Metatables; Metamethods; Userdata; C/C++ calling Lua functions; Lua calling C/C++ functions; Function binding; Creating custom userdata; Looking at the vector data type; The demo framework; Ogre; Object-Oriented Input System; SandboxApplication; Sandbox; Agent; Utility classes; Lua binding; Summary; Chapter 2: Creating and Moving Agents; Creating a new sandbox project; Setting up the file structure
- Extending the SandboxApplication classRunning your sandbox for the first time; Creating a new Decoda project; Configuring Decoda's run executable; Creating a sandbox Lua script; Creating a floor; Adding a light; Adding a skybox; Adding meshes to the sandbox; Creating sandbox objects; Shooting blocks; Creating an agent Lua script; Creating a visual representation; Updating an agent position; Updating an agent orientation; Agent properties; Orientation; The forward axis; The left axis; The up axis; Location; Position; Size; Height; Radius; Physics; Mass; The max force; The max speed; Speed
- VelocityKnowledge; Target; Target radius; Path; Agents' movement; Mass; Speed; Velocity; Acceleration; Force; Agent-steering forces; Seeking; Applying steering forces to an agent; Clamping the horizontal speed of an agent; Creating a seeking agent; Pursuit; Fleeing; Evasion; Wandering; The target speed; Path following; Creating a path following agent; Avoidance; Collision avoidance; Obstacle avoidance; Avoiding blocks and agents; Group steering; Alignment; Cohesion; Separation; Creating a group of followers; Summing steering forces; Weighted sums; Priority-based forces; Summary
- Chapter 3: Character AnimationsSkeletons and meshes; Mesh skeletons; Loading an animated mesh; Showing a skeleton; Attaching meshes to bones; Attaching a weapon to our soldier; Animation clips; Playing an animation on our soldier; Soldier animations; Crouching animations; Standing animations; Weapon animations; Soldier poses; Weapon poses; Manipulating animations; Enabling and disabling animations; Looping animations; The animation length; The animation time; Normalized time; Restarting an animation; Playing a non-looping animation; The animation rate; Animation blending; Animation weights