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Panda3D 1.6 Game Engine Beginner's Guide
Panda3D 1.6 Game Engine Beginner's Guide
Credits
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Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Conventions
Time for action - heading
What just happened?
Pop quiz - heading
Have a go hero - heading
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Installing Panda3D and Preparing a Workspace
Getting started with Panda3D installation packages
Time for action - downloading and installing Panda3D
What just happened?
Switching to an advanced text editor
Time for action - downloading and installing Notepad++
What just happened?
Installing the game content
Time for action - demoing Suicide Jockeys
What just happened?
Installing optional tools
Blender and Chicken
Spacescape
Explosion Texture Generator
Summary
2. Creating the Universe: Loading Terrain
Notepad++
Setting up a new file in Notepad++
Time for action - setting up a new file in Notepad++
What just happened?
Importing Panda3D components
Time for action - importing DirectStart
What just happened?
Creating a World Object
Time for action - creating a World Object
What just happened?
Loading the terrain
Time for action - loading the terrain
What just happened?
Loading files into Panda3D
The model path
Eggs
Bams
Pop quiz - starting Panda3D and loading models
NodePaths and nodes
Time for action - introducing NodePaths and nodes
What just happened?
Manipulating NodePaths
Time for action - manipulating NodePaths
What just happened?
Have a go hero - more NodePath manipulation
The Scene Graph
Time for action - understanding parent child inheritance
What just happened?
Time for action - explaining relative coordinate systems
What just happened?
Have a go hero - parenting and relative coordinate systems
Loading a file multiple times
Render attributes
Time for action - demonstrating render attributes
What just happened?
Pop quiz - using NodePaths and understanding Scene Graph inheritance
Have a go hero - render attributes
Summary
3. Managing Tasks Over Time
The task manager
Time for action - printing the task list from the task manager
What just happened?
Avoiding multiple task managers
Adding tasks to the task manager
Time for action - creating a task and adding it to the task manager
What just happened?
Time for action - looking at task statistics
What just happened?
Adding a delay to tasks
Time for action - using doMethodLater
What just happened?
Pop quiz - the task manager
Using delta time
Time for action - using delta time
What just happened?
Pop quiz - delta time
Over viewing task return options
About the None type object
Time for action - exploring task return options
What just happened?
Pop quiz - task return options
Have a go hero - creating more tasks
Prioritizing tasks
Removing tasks from the task manager
Time for action - removing tasks by name
What just happened?
Dissecting task objects
Summary
4. Taking Control: Events and User Input
Working with events
Time for action - registering and responding to events
What just happened?
Pop quiz - working with events
Using keyboard events
Using a key map
Time for action - creating and using a key map
What just happened?
Pop quiz - using keyboard input
Implementing advanced cycle controls
Time for action - implementing acceleration
What just happened?
Time for action - implementing throttle control
What just happened?
Time for action - implementing turning
What just happened?
Utilizing mouse input and creating camera control
Time for action - tying the camera to the cycle
What just happened?
Reacting to mouse movement
Time for action - turning the camera with the mouse position
What just happened?
Pop quiz - utilizing mouse input
Have a go hero - creating more tasks
Ending event response
Summary
5. Handling Large Programs with Custom Classes
Importing custom classes
Time for action - making and importing a custom class
What just happened?
Pop quiz - importing custom classes
Adding NodePath functionality to a custom class
Time for action - defining the Cycle class
What just happened?
Simulating drift
Time for action - simulating drift
What just happened?
Pop quiz - using custom classes with NodePaths
Accessing classes from within another class
Time for action - adding an input manager
What just happened?
Have a go hero - Adding AI to the cycle
Pop quiz - accessing custom classes from other custom classes
Summary
6. The World in Action: Handling Collisions
Collision basics: Our first collision system
Time for action - creating a simple collision detection system
What just happened?
Pop quiz - regarding basic collision detection
Creating inter-cycle collisions
Time for action - inter-cycle collisions
What just happened?
Pop quiz - understanding handlers that generate events
Have a go hero - using collision events
Using BitMasks to organize collisions
Time for action - implementing BitMasks
What just happened?
Time for action - setting a range of bits with BitMask.range
What just happened?
Pop quiz - understanding BitMasks
Using Python tags to get colliding objects
Time for action - setting and getting PythonTags
What just happened?
Have a go hero - gaining experience with BitMasks and PythonTags
Pop quiz - using Python Tags
Setting up ground collision
Time for action - creating a ground collision system
What just happened?
Pop quiz - complex collision detection
Overview of additional collision solids and handlers
Collision solids
Collision handlers
Summary
7. Making it Fancy: Lighting, Textures, Filters, and Shaders
Adding lighting
Time for action - adding lights to the game
What just happened?
Types of lights
Have a go hero - adding more lights to the scene
Pop quiz - using lights
Applying textures to models
Time for action - creating a bam writer
What just happened?
Have a go hero - loading the bam file
Texture stages
Time for action - using TextureStages
What just happened?
Have a go hero - apply textures
Pop quiz - understanding textures and TextureStages
Creating filters
Time for action - adding a bloom filter
What just happened?
Using a sky sphere
Time for action - adding a sky sphere
What just happened?
Pop quiz - setting up a sky sphere
Summary
8. GUI Goodness: All About the Graphic User Interface
Creating a menu system
About DirectGUI
Time for action - creating a menu system
What just happened?
Pop quiz - understanding DirectGUI
Have a go hero - performing additional actions with new menus
Putting menus to use
Time for action - using menus
What just happened?
In-game HUD
Time for action - creating a basic HUD
What just happened?
Pop quiz - creating a Heads Up Display
Have-a-go hero proper order of images
Summary
9. Animating in Panda3D
Actors and Animations
Time for action - loading Actors and Animations
What just happened?
Pop quiz - animation basics
Controlling animations
Have a go hero - basic animation controls
Animation blending
Time for action - blending two animations
What just happened?
Creating and using Actor subparts
Time for action - playing animations on subparts
What just happened?
Pop quiz - advanced animation
Exposing joints
Time for action - animating our cycles
What just happened?
Summary
10. Creating Weaponry: Using Mouse Picking and Intervals
Using mouse picking
Time for action - setting up mouse aim
What just happened?
Pop quiz - mouse picking
Understanding Intervals, Sequences, and Parallels
Sequences and Parallels
Creating machine guns
Time for action - using Intervals in Sequences and Parallels
What just happened?
Time for action - adding collision detection to the MachineGun
What just happened?
Implementing the main cannon
Time for action - creating the main cannon
What just happened?
Adding weapon information to the HUD
Time for action - adding a new HUD section
What just happened?
Handling damage response
Time for action - finalizing weapons with damage response
What just happened?
Pop quiz - Intervals
Summary
11. What's that Noise? Using Sound
Editing Config.prc
Time for action - selecting an audio library
What just happened?
Adding music
AudioSound objects
AudioManager objects
Time for action - creating background music
What just happened?
Pop quiz - making music
Adding sound effects
Time for action - generating 3D audio with Audio3DManager
What just happened?
About sound intervals
Pop quiz - sounding off
Summary
12. Finishing Touches: Getting the Game Ready for the Customer
Collecting garbage
Time for action - collecting garbage from the Explosion classes
What just happened?
Time for action - collecting garbage from the Gun classes
What just happened?
Time for action - collecting garbage from the Cycle class
What just happened?
Time for action - collecting garbage from the Track class
What just happened?
Pop quiz - garbage collection
Creating a preloader
Time for action - creating a preloader to load models
What just happened?
File handling
Time for action - reading data from a file
What just happened?
Customizing the mouse cursor
Time for action - customizing the mouse cursor
What just happened?
Have a go hero - the end of the race
Pop quiz - using a custom mouse cursor
Creating an Installer
Time for action - packing a Panda3D game
What just happened?
Have a go hero - improving load times
Pop quiz - building an installer
Summary
A. Creating a Sky Sphere with Spacescape
Learning Spacescape basics
Time for action - getting started with Spacescape
What just happened?
Blending layers
Time for action - blending layers to create nebulas
What just happened?
Using point stars and billboard stars
Time for action - populating the sky with stars
What just happened?
Creating a sky sphere from a skybox made with Spacescape
Time for action - populating the sky with stars
What just happened?
Time for action - creating the sky sphere in Panda3D
What just happened?
Summary
B. Using Egg-Texture-Cards and ExploTexGen
Using ExploTexGen
Time for action - reading the ExploTexGen documentation
What just happened?
Time for action - designing an explosion
What just happened?
Creating flipbook animations with egg-texture-cards
Time for action - using egg-texture-cards
What just happened?
Additional egg-texture-card options
Summary
C. Pop quiz - Answers
Chapter 2: Creating the Universe: Loading Terrain
Starting Panda3D and loading models
Using NodePath and understanding scene graph inheritance
Chapter 3: Managing Tasks Over Time
The task manager
Delta time
Delta time Task return options
Chapter 4: Taking Control: Events and User Input
Working with events
Using keyboard input
Utilizing mouse input
Chapter 5: Handling Large Programs with Custom Classes
Importing custom classes
Accessing custom classes from other classes
Chapter 6: The World in Action: Handling Collisions
Regarding basic collision detection
Understanding handlers that generate events
Understanding BitMasks
Using Python tags
Complex collision detection
Chapter 7: Making it Fancy: Lighting, Textures, Filters, and Shaders
Using lights
Understanding textures and TextureStages
Setting up a sky sphere
Chapter 8: GUI Goodness: All About the Graphic User Interface
Understanding DirectGUI
Creating a Heads Up Display
Chapter 9: Animating in Panda3D
Animation basics
Advanced animation
Chapter 10: Creating Weaponry: Using Mouse Picking and Intervals
Mouse picking
Intervals
Chapter 11: What's that Noise? Using Sound
Making music
Sounding off
Chapter 12: Finishing Touches: Getting the Game Ready for the Customer
Garbage collection
Using a custom mouse cursor
Building an installer
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