Game Engine Gems

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Contents
Preface
Part I: Graphics and Rendering
	1: The Open Game Engine Exchange Format
	2: Realistic Blending of Skies, Water, and Terrain
	3: Fog with a Linear Density Function
	4: Vegetation Management in Leadwerks Game Engine 4
	5: Smooth Horizon Mapping
	6: Buffer-Free Generation of Triangle Strip Cube Vertices
	7: Edge-Preserving Smoothing Filter for Particle Based Rendering
	8: Variable Precision Pixel Shading for Improved Power Efficiency
	9: A Fast and High-Quality Texture Atlasing Algorithm
Part II: Physics
	10: Rotational Joint Limits in Quaternion Space
	11: Volumetric Hierarchical Approximate Convex Decomposition
	12: Simulating Soft Bodies Using Strain Based Dynamics
Part III: General Programming
	13: Generic, Lightweight, and Fast Delegates in C++
	14: Compile-Time String Hashing in C++
	15: Static Reflection in C++ Using Tuples
	16: Portable SIMD Programs Using ISPC
	17: Shared Network Arrays as an Abstraction of Network Code from Game Code Logic
Part IV: Character Control and Artificial Intelligence
	18: Vision Based Local Collision Avoidance
	19: A Programming Framework for Autonomous NPCs
	20: Beyond Smart Objects: Behavior-Oriented Programming for NPCs in Large Open Worlds
	21: A Control System for Enhancing Entity Behavior
	22: A Control System Based Approach to Entity Behavior
Contributor Biographies
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