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Building a 3D Game with LibGDX

Building a 3D Game with LibGDX

Credits

About the Author

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Setting Up Your Development Environment

LibGDX 3D API overview

Downloading IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition

LibGDX project setup

Basic use of IntelliJ IDEA with LibGDX

Running the Android app

Running the desktop app

Summary

2. An Extra Dimension

Camera techniques

Drawing a cube

Translation

Rotation

Scaling

Summary

3. Working toward a Prototype

Creating our world

Creating our structure

Game screen

A simple playground

Game world

Adding visuals

Introduction to Ashley

Components

Model component

Systems and Ashley's engine

Render system

Adding physics and collisions

Bullet Physics and Bullet system

Creating a scene

Movable characters

Player component

Player system

Adding enemies

Enemy component

Status component

Enemy system

Enemy collision

Making our player able to shoot

Scene2D

Default skin for Scene2D

Health bar

Crosshair

Displaying scores

Pausing the game

Game over widget

Screens

Main menu screen

Leaderboards screen and the Settings class

Summary

4. Preparing Visuals

Setting up Blender

Downloading and installing Blender

Blender's (very) basics

Move gizmo

Scale gizmo

Rotation gizmo

Sketching

Game asset pipeline in Blender

Modeling

UV mapping

Texturing

First steps to animation - rigging

Animation

Exporting

Summary

5. Starting to Look Like an Actual Game

Models usable and ready to deploy with LibGDX

Downloading Fbx-Conv

Command-line usage

Options/flags:

Adding our own gun model

Converting our gun model file

Importing the model, finally!

Adding our own static arena

Creating our model

Importing to our game and getting the collision bounds

Enemy models!

Getting models from the Internet

Preparing for more than one animation

Run animation

Death animation and system

Improving the spawn function

Adding a SkyDome

Getting the model

Implementing

Shadows and lights

Adding a directional shadow with a light

Summary

6. Spicing Up the Game

3D particles and LibGDX 3D particle editor

Particle effect types

Emitter properties

Saving and importing

Adding the particle effect and a material attribute

Mobile performance

Testing on Android

Performance improvements on the enemy model

Performance improvements and frustum culling

UI tweening

Online leaderboards and the .NET API

Analog sticks on mobile and platform recognition

Summary

7. Final Words

Deploying to platforms

Running and deploying on desktop

Running and deploying on Android

Troubleshooting common problems

Gradle

Antivirus

IntelliJ

What's missing from our game?

More platforms

Loading screen and loading feature

About section

Splash screen

UI customization and screen transitions

Game design

Attack system

Shaders and shadows across all platforms

Shooting lasers

Positional audio

Publishing

Ads

Social networks

Summary