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Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 10
Contributors......Page 15
Introduction......Page 16
1.1 Fast Font Rendering with Instancing......Page 18
1.2 Principles and Practice of Screen Space Ambient Occlusion......Page 27
1.3 Multi-Resolution Deferred Shading......Page 47
1.4 View Frustum Culling of Catmull-Clark Patches in DirectX 11......Page 54
1.5 Ambient Occlusion Using DirectX Compute Shader......Page 65
1.6 Eye-View Pixel Anti-Aliasing for Irregular Shadow Mapping......Page 89
1.7 Overlapped Execution on Programmable Graphics Hardware......Page 105
1.8 Techniques for Effective Vertex and Fragment Shading on the SPUs......Page 116
Introduction......Page 134
2.1 A Versatile and Interactive Anatomical Human Face Model......Page 136
2.2 Curved Paths for Seamless Character Animation......Page 147
2.3 Non-Iterative, Closed-Form, Inverse Kinematic Chain Solver (NCF IK)......Page 156
2.4 Particle Swarm Optimization for Game Programming......Page 167
2.5 Improved Numerical Integration with Analytical Techniques......Page 183
2.6 What a Drag: Modeling Realistic Three-Dimensional Air and Fluid Resistance......Page 198
2.7 Application of Quasi-Fluid Dynamics for Arbitrary Closed Meshes......Page 209
2.8 Approximate Convex Decomposition for Real-Time Collision Detection......Page 217
Introduction......Page 226
3.1 AI Level of Detail for Really Large Worlds......Page 228
3.2 A Pattern-Based Approach to Modular AI for Games......Page 247
3.3 Automated Navigation Mesh Generation Using Advanced Growth-Based Techniques......Page 259
3.4 A Practical Spatial Architecture for Animal and Agent Navigation......Page 271
3.5 Applying Control Theory to Game AI and Physics......Page 279
3.6 Adaptive Tactic Selection in First-Person Shooter (FPS) Games......Page 294
3.7 Embracing Chaos Theory: Generating Apparent Unpredictability through Deterministic Systems......Page 303
3.8 Needs-Based AI......Page 317
3.9 A Framework for Emotional Digital Actors......Page 327
3.10 Scalable Dialog Authoring......Page 338
3.11 Graph-Based Data Mining for Player Trace Analysis in MMORPGs......Page 350
Introduction......Page 368
4.1 Fast-IsA......Page 370
4.2 Registered Variables......Page 378
4.3 Efficient and Scalable Multi-Core Programming......Page 388
4.4 Game Optimization through the Lens of Memory and Data Access......Page 400
4.5 Stack Allocation......Page 408
4.6 Design and Implementation of an In-Game Memory Profiler......Page 417
4.7 A More Informative Error Log Generator......Page 424
4.8 Code Coverage for QA......Page 431
4.9 Domain-Specific Languages in Game Engines......Page 443
4.10 A Flexible User Interface Layout System for Divergent Environments......Page 457
4.11 Road Creation for Projectable Terrain Meshes......Page 468
4.12 Developing for Digital Drawing Tablets......Page 477
4.13 Creating a Multi-Threaded Actor-Based Architecture Using Intel® Threading Building Blocks......Page 488
Introduction......Page 500
5.1 Secure Channel Communication......Page 502
5.2 Social Networks in Games: Playing with Your Facebook Friends......Page 513
5.3 Asynchronous I/O for Scalable Game Servers......Page 521
5.4 Introduction to 3D Streaming Technology in Massively Multiplayer Online Games......Page 529
Introduction......Page 554
6.1 A Practical DSP Radio Effect......Page 557
6.2 Empowering Your Audio Team with a Great Engine......Page 568
6.3 Real-Time Sound Synthesis for Rigid Bodies......Page 578
Introduction......Page 588
7.1 Using Heterogeneous Parallel Architectures with OpenCL......Page 590
7.2 PhysX GPU Rigid Bodies in Batman: Arkham Asylum......Page 605
7.3 Fast GPU Fluid Simulation in PhysX......Page 617
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