Graphics and Game Gems Database

Game Programming Gems 5 Edited by Kim Pallister Charles River Media, 2005 ISBN 1-58450-352-1 See on Amazon

Contents Context-Sensitive HUDs for Editors Adam Martin Pages 5–15 Parsing Text Data in Games Aurelio Reis Pages 17–24 Component Based Object Management Bjarne Rene Pages 25–37 Using Templates for Reflection in C++ Dominic Filion Pages 39–54 Sphere Trees for Speedy BSPs Dominic Filion Pages 55–63 Improved Frustum Culling Frank Puig Placeres Pages 65–77 Generic Pager Ignacio Incera Cruz Pages 79–92 Large-Scale Stack-Based State Machines James Boer Pages 93–101 CSG Construction Using BSP Trees Octavian Marius Chincisan Pages 103–113 Building Lua into Games Matthew Harmon Pages 115–128 Improving Freelists with Policy Based Design Nathan Mefford Pages 129–141 A Real-Time Remote Debug Message Logger Patrick Duquette Pages 143–148 A Transparent Class Saving and Loading Trick Patrick Meehan Pages 149–157 An Effective Cache-Oblivious Implementation of the ABT Tree Sébastien Schertenleib Pages 159–168 Visual Design of State Machines Scott Jacobs Pages 169–175 A Generic Component Library Warrick Buchanan Pages 177–187 Choose Your Path—A Menu System Wendy Jones Pages 189–196 Using Geometric Algebra for Computer Graphics Chris Lomont Pages 201–223 Minimal Acceleration Hermite Curves Tony Barrera, Anders Hast, Ewert Bengtsson Pages 225–231 Spline-Based Time Control for Animation Jim Van Verth Pages 233–246 Faster Quaternion Interpolation Using Approximations Andy Thomason Pages 247–267 Minimax Numerical Approximation Christopher Tremblay Pages 269–280 Oblique View Frustums for Mirrors and Portals Eric Lengyel Pages 281–294 Automatic Cover Finding with Navigation Meshes Borut Pfeifer Pages 299–305 Fast Target Ranking Using an Artificial Potential Field Markus Breyer Pages 307–315 Using Lanchester Attrition Models to Predict the Results of Combat John Bolton Pages 317–328 Implementing Practical Planning for Game AI Jamie Cheng, Finnegan Southey Pages 329–343 Optimizing a Decision Tree Query Algorithm for Multithreaded Architectures Chuck DeSylva Pages 345–352 Parallel AI Development with PVM Michael Ramsey Pages 353–366 Beyond A* Mario Grimani, Matthew Titelbaum Pages 367–382 Advanced Pathfinding with Minimal Replanning Cost: Dynamic A Star (D*) Marco Tombesi Pages 383–389 Back of the Envelope Aerodynamics for Game Physics Graham Rhodes Pages 395–409 Dynamic Grass Simulation and Other Natural Effects Rishi Ramraj Pages 411–419 Realistic Cloth Animation Using the Mass-Spring Model Juan M. Cordero Pages 421–433 Practical Animation of Soft Bodies for Game Development: The Pressurized Soft-Body Model Maciej Matyka Pages 435–448 Adding Life to Ragdoll Simulation Using Feedback Control Systems Michael Mandel Pages 449–455 Designing a Prescripted Physics System Daniel Higgins Pages 457–472 Prescripted Physics: Techniques and Applications Shawn Shoemaker Pages 473–481 Realistic Camera Movement in a 3D Car Simulator Barnabás Aszódi, Szabolcs Czuczor Pages 483–494 Realistic Cloud Rendering on Modern GPUs Jean-François Dubé Pages 499–505 Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (and Rain) Niniane Wang, Bretton Wade Pages 507–513 Widgets: Rendering Fast and Persistent Foliage Martin Brownlow Pages 515–526 2.5 Dimensional Impostors for Realistic Trees and Forests Gábor Szijártó Pages 527–538 Gridless Controllable Fire Neeharika Adabala, Charles E. Hughes Pages 539–549 Powerful Explosion Effects Using Billboard Particles Steve Rabin Pages 551–560 A Simple Method for Rendering Gemstones Thorsten Scheuermann Pages 561–570 Volumetric Post-Processing Dominic Filion, Sylvain Boissé Pages 571–577 Procedural Level Generation Timothy Roden, Ian Parberry Pages 579–588 Recombinant Shaders Dominic Filion Pages 589–597 Keeping a Massively Multiplayer Online Game Massive, Online, and Persistent Shea Street Pages 603–610 Implementing a Seamless World Server Patrick Duquette Pages 611–620 Designing a Vulgarity Filtering System Shekhar Dhupelia Pages 621–626 Fast and Efficient Implementation of a Remote Procedure Call System Hyun-jik Bae Pages 627–641 Overcoming Network Address Translation in Peer-to-Peer Communications Jon Watte Pages 643–664 A Reliable Messaging Protocol Martin Brownlow Pages 665–671 Safe Random Number Systems Shekhar Dhupelia Pages 673–679 Secure by Design Adam Martin Pages 681–691 Multithreaded Audio Programming Techniques James Boer Pages 697–711 Sound Management by Group Matthew Harmon Pages 713–719 Using 3D Surfaces as Audio Emitters Sami Hamlaoui Pages 721–728 Fast Environmental Reverb Based on Feedback Delay Networks Christian Schüler Pages 729–740 Introduction to Single-Speaker Speech Recognition Julien Hamaide Pages 741–750