Graphics and Game Gems Database

Game Engine Gems 1 Edited by Eric Lengyel Jones and Bartlett, 2010 ISBN 978-0-7637-7888-0 See on Amazon • Official book website

Contents What to Look for When Evaluating Middleware for Integration Jason Hughes Pages 3–10 The Game Asset Pipeline Rémi Arnaud Pages 11–38 Volumetric Representation of Virtual Environments David Williams Pages 39–60 High-Level Pathfinding Daniel Higgins Pages 61–78 Environment Sound Culling Simon Franco Pages 79–90 A GUI Framework and Presentation Layer Adrian Hirst Pages 91–105 World's Best Palettizer Jason Hughes Pages 107–122 3D Stereoscopic Rendering: An Overview of Implementation Issues Anders Hast Pages 123–137 A Multithreaded 3D Renderer Sébastien Schertenleib Pages 139–147 Camera-Centric Engine Design for Multithreaded Rendering Colt McAnlis Pages 149–165 A GPU-Managed Memory Pool Jeremy Moore Pages 167–176 Precomputed 3D Velocity Field for Simulating Fluid Dynamics Khalid Djado, Richard Egli Pages 177–186 Mesh Partitioning for Fun and Profit Jason Hughes Pages 187–196 Moments of Inertia for Common Shapes Eric Lengyel Pages 197–216 Physically-Based Outdoor Scene Lighting Frank Kane Pages 219–227 Rendering Physically-Based Skyboxes Frank Kane Pages 229–234 Motion Blur and the Velocity-Depth-Gradient Buffer Eric Lengyel Pages 235–247 Fast Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion and Indirect Lighting László Szirmay-Kalos, Balázs Tóth, Tamás Umenhoffer Pages 249–262 Real-Time Character Dismemberment Aurelio Reis Pages 263–269 A Deferred Decal Rendering Technique Jan Krassnigg Pages 271–280 Multithreaded Object Models Jon Parise Pages 283–288 Holistic Task Parallelism for Common Game Architecture Patterns Brad Werth Pages 289–296 Dynamic Code Execution Hierarchies Martin Linklater Pages 297–304 Key-Value Dictionary Martin Linklater Pages 305–310 A Basic Scheduler John Bolton Pages 311–314 The Game State Observer Pattern Ron Barbosa Pages 315–328 Fast Trigonometric Operations Using CORDIC Methods John Bolton Pages 329–337 Inter-Process Communication Based on Your Own RPC Subsystem Kurt Pelzer Pages 339–349