Game Engine Gems, Volume 2

Eric Lengyel, Series Editor
ISBN-13: 978-1-5688-1437-7
Hardcover · Full Color · 532 Pages
A K Peters / CRC Press © 2011

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This book, the second volume in the popular Game Engine Gems series, is composed of short articles that focus on a particular technique, describe a clever trick, or offer practical advice within the subject of game engine development. The 31 chapters cover three broad categories—graphics and rendering, game engine design, and systems programming. Professional game developers, students of game development and computer science, and anyone interested in learning how the pros tackle specific problems that arise during game engine development will find useful gems in this collection.

TABLE OF CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Part I — Graphics and Rendering

1. Fast Computation of Tight-Fitting Oriented Bounding Boxes
Thomas Larsson (Senior Lecturer at Mälardalen University)
Linus Källberg (Lecturer at Mälardalen University)
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2. Modeling, Lighting, and Rendering Techniques for Volumetric Clouds
Frank Kane (Founder of Sundog Software, LLC)
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3. Simulation of Night-Vision and Infrared Sensors
Frank Kane (Founder of Sundog Software, LLC)

4. Screen-Space Classification for Efficient Deferred Shading
Balor Knight (Senior Principal Programmer at Black Rock Studio)
Matthew Ritchie (Principal Programmer at Black Rock Studio)
George Parrish (Senior Programmer at Black Rock Studio)

5. Delaying OpenGL Calls
Patrick Cozzi (Software Engineer at Analytical Graphics, Inc.)
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6. A Framework for GLSL Engine Uniforms
Patrick Cozzi (Software Engineer at Analytical Graphics, Inc.)
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7. A Spatial and Temporal Coherence Framework for Real-Time Graphics
Michał Drobot (Reality Pump Game Development Studios)

8. Implementing a Fast Diffusion DOF Solver
Holger Grün (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.)

9. Automatic Dynamic Stereoscopic 3D
Jason Hughes (Founder of Steel Penny Games)

10. Practical Stereo Rendering
Matthew Johnson (Software Engineer at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.)

11. Making 3D Stereoscopic Games
Sébastien Schertenleib (Principal Engineer at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)

12. A Generic Multi-View Rendering Engine Architecture
M. Adil Yalçın (M.Sc. Graduate at Bilkent University)
Tolga Çapın (Assistant Professor at Bilkent University)
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13. 3D in a Web Browser
Rémi Arnaud (Chief Software Engineer at Screampoint Inc.)

14. 2D Magic
Daniel Higgins (Owner and Manager of Lunchtime Studios, LLC)
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Part II — Game Engine Design

15. High-Performance Programming with Data-Oriented Design
Noel Llopis (Founder of Snappy Touch)

16. Game Tuning Infrastructure
Wessam Bahnassi (Software Engineer at Electronic Arts, Inc.)

17. Placeholders Beyond Static Art Replacement
Olivier Vaillancourt (Centre MOIVRE, Université de Sherbrooke)
Richard Egli (Centre MOIVRE, Université de Sherbrooke)
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18. Believable Dead Reckoning for Networked Games
Curtiss Murphy (Senior Project Engineer at Alion Science and Technology)
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19. An Egocentric Motion Management System
Michael Ramsey (Ramsey Research, LLC)

20. Pointer Patching Assets
Jason Hughes (Founder of Steel Penny Games)
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21. Data-Driven Sound Pack Loading and Organization
Simon Franco (The Creative Assembly)

22. GPGPU Cloth simulation using GLSL, OpenCL, and CUDA
Marco Fratarcangeli (Senior Software Engineer at Taitus Software Italia)
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23. A Jitter-Tolerant Rigid Body Sleep Condition
Eric Lengyel (Series Editor and Founder of Terathon Software LLC)

Part III — Systems Programming

24. Bit Hacks for Games
Eric Lengyel (Series Editor and Founder of Terathon Software LLC)

25. Introspection for C++ Game Engines
Jon Watte (Technical Director at IMVU, Inc.)
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26. A Highly Optimized Portable Memory Manager
Jason Hughes (Founder of Steel Penny Games)
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27. Simple Remote Heaps
Jason Hughes (Founder of Steel Penny Games)
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28. A Cache-Aware Hybrid Sorter
Manny Ko (R&D Engineer at Naughty Dog, Inc. and Dreamworks Animation)
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29. Thread Communication Techniques
Julien Hamaide (Founder of Fishing Cactus)

30. A Cross-Platform Multithreading Framework
Martin Fleisz (Chief Development Officer at Thinstuff s.r.o.)
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31. Producer-Consumer Queues
Matthew Johnson (Software Engineer at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.)