Graphics and Game Gems Database

Game Programming Gems 4 Edited by Andrew Kirmse Charles River Media, 2004 ISBN 1-58450-205-9 See on Amazon

Contents The Science of Debugging Games Steve Rabin Pages 5–18 An HTML-Based Logging and Debugging System James Boer Pages 19–26 The Clock: Keeping Your Finger on the Pulse of the Game Noel Llopis Pages 27–34 Designing and Maintaining Large Cross-Platform Libraries David Etherton Pages 35–41 Fight Memory Fragmentation with Templated Freelists Paul Glinker Pages 43–49 A Generic Tree Container in C++ Bill Budge Pages 51–59 The Beauty of Weak References and Null Objects Noel Llopis Pages 61–68 A System for Managing Game Entities Matthew Harmon Pages 69–83 Address-Space Managed Dynamic Arrays for Windows and the Xbox Matt Pritchard Pages 85–93 Critically Damped Ease-In/Ease-Out Smoothing Thomas Lowe Pages 95–101 A Flexible On-the-Fly Object Manager Natalya Tatarchuk Pages 103–110 Using Custom RTTI Properties to Stream and Edit Objects Frederic My Pages 111–124 Using XML Without Sacrificing Speed Mark T. Price Pages 125–135 Zobrist Hash Using the Mersenne Twister Toby Jones Pages 141–146 Extracting Frustum and Camera Information Waldemar Celes Pages 147–156 Solving Accuracy Problems in Large World Coordinates Peter Freese Pages 157–170 Nonuniform Splines Thomas Lowe Pages 171–181 Using the Covariance Matrix for Better-Fitting Bounding Objects Jim Van Verth Pages 183–192 The Jacobian Transpose Method for Inverse Kinematics Marco Spoerl Pages 193–204 Ten Fingers of Death: Algorithms for Combat Killing Roger Smith, Don Stoner Pages 209–219 Vehicle Physics Simulation for CPU-Limited Systems Marcin Pancewicz, Paul Bragiel Pages 221–230 Writing a Vertlet-Based Physics Engine Nick Porcino Pages 231–240 Constraints in Rigid Body Dynamics Russ Smith Pages 241–251 Fast Contact Reduction for Dynamics Simulation Ádám Moravánszky, Pierre Terdiman Pages 253–263 Interactive Water Surfaces Jerry Tessendorf Pages 265–274 Fast Deformations with Multilayered Physics Thomas Di Giacomo Pages 275–285 Modal Analysis for Fast, Stable Deformation James F. O’Brien Pages 287–298 Third-Person Camera Navigation Jonathan Stone Pages 303–314 Narrative Combat: Using AI to Enhance Tension in an Action Game Borut Pfeifer Pages 315–324 NPC Decision Making: Dealing with Randomness Karén Pivazyan Pages 325–335 An Object-Oriented Utility-Based Decision Architecture John Hancock Pages 337–344 A Distributed-Reasoning Voting Architecture John Hancock Pages 345–354 Attractors and Repulsors John Olsen Pages 355–364 Advanced Wall Building for RTS Games Mario Grimani Pages 365–372 Artificial Neural Networks on Programmable Graphics Hardware Thomas Rolfes Pages 373–377 Poster Quality Screenshots Steve Rabin Pages 383–392 GPU Shadow Volume Construction for Nonclosed Meshes Warrick Buchanan Pages 393–398 Perspective Shadow Maps Marc Stamminger, George Drettakis, Carsten Dachsbacher Pages 399–410 Combined Depth and ID-Based Shadow Buffers Kurt Pelzer Pages 411–425 Carving Static Shadows into Geometry Alex Vlachos Pages 427–435 Adjusting Real-Time Lighting for Shadow Volumes and Optimized Meshes Alex Vlachos, Chris Oat Pages 437–441 Real-Time Halftoning: Fast and Simple Stylized Shading Bert Freudenberg, Maic Masuch, Thomas Strothotte Pages 443–449 Techniques to Apply Team Colors to 3D Models Greg Seegert Pages 451–459 Fast Sepia Tone Conversion Marwan Y. Ansari Pages 461–463 Dynamic Gamma Using Sampled Scene Luminance Michael Dougherty, Dave McCoy Pages 465–475 Heat and Haze Post-Processing Effects Chris Oat, Natalya Tatarchuk Pages 477–485 Hardware Skinning with Quaternions Jim Hejl Pages 487–495 Motion Capture Data Compression Søren Hannibal Pages 497–502 Fast Collision Detection for 3D Bones-Based Articulated Characters Oliver Heim, Carl Marshall, Adam Lake Pages 503–514 Terrain Occlusion Culling with Horizons Glenn Fiedler Pages 515–527 General Lobby Design and Development Shekhar Dhupelia Pages 533–539 Thousands of Clients per Server Adam Martin Pages 541–553 Efficient MMP Game State Storage Justin Quimby Pages 555–561 Practical Application of Parallel-State Machines in a Client-Server Environment Jay Lee Pages 563–570 Bit Packing: A Network Compression Technique Pete Isensee Pages 571–578 Time and Consistency Management for Multiserver-Based MMORPGs Larry Shi, Tao Zhang Pages 579–589 A Brief Introduction to OpenAL Joe Valenzuela Pages 595–606 A Simple Real-Time Lip Synching System Jake Simpson Pages 607–611 Dynamic Variables and Audio Programming James Boer Pages 613–619 Creating an Audio Scripting System Borut Pfeifer Pages 621–631 Implementing an Environmental Audio Solution Using EAX and ZoomFX Scott Velasquez Pages 633–647 Controlling Real-Time Sound Synthesis from Game Physics Frank Luchs Pages 649–656