3D Game and Graphics Programming using UNIGINE
3D Game and Graphics Programming using UNIGINE
C++, C#, and CG Artist perspective
About the Book
Begin your journey of 3D computer graphics for game programming, VFX development, virtual and mixed reality with C++ and C#. Whether you are discovering Unigine for the first time or refreshing your knowledge about Photo-realistic renderings, this book gives the definitive introduction to how to do it in 3D computer graphics?
You will Learn,
- Create virtual worlds, composite physically-based 3D scenes, spatial sound, tricks, and techniques.
- Atmospheric and camera models, Graphics and game patterns
- Virtual and Mixed Reality builds
- Game and graphics programming in C++ and C#
- Procedural rendering using UUSL (Direct3D and OpenGL)
- In-depth debugging and optimizations of the 3D scenes
About the Author
Table of Contents
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CHAPTER 1: Install and Setup UNIGINE-2
- UNIGINE and System Requirements
- Installing UNIGINE SDK Browser and Licenses
- Setup A Windows development environment
- Summary
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CHAPTER 2: Introduction of UNIGINE Engine
- Engine Features
- Engine Fundamentals and Build Platforms
- Logging, Start-up Options, Configuration files, and Console
- File Systems and Performance Analyzer
- Summary
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CHAPTER 3: Creating your first Project
- Create Project in SDK Browser
- UNIGINE SDK Browser Project Format
- Introduction to UNIGINE Editor
- Asset Workflow: GUID, Runtime files creation, and handling of assets.
- Run via Code
- Summary
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CHAPTER 4: Virtual Worlds: Nodes, Surfaces, and Players
- Coordinate System and 3D models and Export
- Importing 3D Models: Geometry, Animations, Textures, Lights, and materials
- Nodes and Surfaces: LOD’s, Nodes, Converted Engine Objects
- Players: Virtual Camera and properties, View Bitmasking
- Project: Sample Project with Models and Players (GitHub)
- Programming: Rotate the node continuously, Start the animation after a pre-defined time. (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 5: File System and Render Settings
- Unigine File System
- Asynchronous Data Streaming
- Render Settings: Environment, Camera Effects, Antialiasing, Textures, color correction, DOF.
- Project: Sample Project with render settings (GitHub)
- Programming: Change the rendering settings at run time (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 6: Paint the Surfaces: Textures and materials, Metalness Workflow
- Textures: Colors and transparencies, mipmaps
- Unigine materials and materials inheritance
- PBR workflow and creating new material
- Project: Material Mapping and material Inheritance (GitHub)
- Programming: Access material parameters and change them at run time. (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 7: Lightning and Reflections: Global Illumination, Lights, and Day of Time
- Types of lights
- Global Illumination
- Types of Reflections and settings
- Project: Different types of Lights and reflection implementation (GitHub)
- Programming: Add Lights programmatically and program the light settings and change the time of day. (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 8: Behaviors and Logic: Properties and Component Systems
- Unigine Properties: Files, structure and usage
- Component system
- Project: Add Components to existing nodes (GitHub)
- Programming: Program a component to jump if any other node comes into its vicinity. (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 9: Cinematics using tracker
- Introduction to Unigine Tracker
- Project: Cinematic using players and other tracks. (GitHub)
- Programming: Program a tracker using UnigineScript. (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 10: Exteriors: Terrain, Vegetation, Grass, roads, and Fields
- Introduction Terrain Objects in Unigine
- Vegetation Add-on and Grass Objects.
- Road Tool and Fields.
- Project: Exterior scene with the terrain. (GitHub)
- Programming: Roll the sphere on terrain.(GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 11: Decorate your world: Water, Volumes, Clouds, and Sky
- Water
- Volumes
- Clouds
- Sky
- Project: Scene with water and clouds. (GitHub)
- Programming: Float an object over water with waves. (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 12: Effects: Particles and Decals
- Particle System
- Decals
- Project: Decals on roads and smoke and fire particles. (GitHub)
- Programming: Shooting decals Example. (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 13: Making it responsive: Collisions, Intersections, Rigid Body Physics, and Physicals
- World Collisions, and intersections. Properties and API
- Physics: Rigid body physics, Shapes, and Joints.
- Project: World with Physicals and Rigid Body Physics. (GitHub)
- Programming: Physical callbacks and physics triggers. (GitHub)
- Programming: Intersection and collision detections. (GitHub)
- Programming: Object Picking. (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 14: Pathfinding and obstacles
- Navigation objects
- Obstacles
- Programming: Writing a simple implementation for the crowd. (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 15: Spatial Sound
- Sound Objects
- Project: 3D Sound effect world (GitHub)
- Programming: Playing sound on collisions and playing ambient sound. (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 16: User Interfaces: Unigine Widgets Graphics
- Programming GUI: Containers, Widgets, and Localisation
- RC Files and Skin Layouts
- Project: Small world with User interface and skins. (GitHub)
- Programming: Create User interface and handle the callbacks (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 17: Creating your build
- Create Build
- Summary
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CHAPTER 18: Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality
- Virtual Reality Support
- Mixed Reality Support
- Programming: Properties and component for Lens calibration for mixed reality (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 19: Debugging and Optimisations
- Debugging using micro profiler
- Techniques for Content Optimizations
- Programming: Microprofiler programming (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 20: Extending Unigine Functionality using Plugins
- Plugins
- Programming: Writing a simple Plugin (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 21: Procedural Shading
- UUSL
- Vertex, Pixel, and Compute shaders
- Programming: Write a custom material to change the scene to black and white. (GitHub)
- Summary
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CHAPTER 22: Boids Example
- Programming: BOIDS Program to simulate birds flock. (GitHub)
- Summary
- Acknowledgement
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