Panda3D 1.6 Game Engine Beginner's Guide电子书

Panda3D 1.6 Game Engine

Table of Contents

Panda3D 1.6 Game Engine

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

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

Index