WebGL Game Development

Content: Cover
 Copyright
 Credits
 About the Author
 About the Reviewers
 www.PacktPub.com
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Chapter 1: Getting Started with WebGL Game Development
 Understanding WebGL
 Differentiating WebGL from the game engine
 Understanding basic 3D mathematics
 Vectors
 Matrices
 Understanding transformations
 Classifying into linear and affine transformations
 Understanding transformations required to render 3D objects
 Learning the basics of 3D graphics
 Understanding mesh, polygon, and vertices
 Using indices to save memory
 Understanding WebGL\'s rendering pipeline
 Framebuffers. A walkthrough of the WebGL APIInitializing the WebGL context
 Vertex buffer objects --
uploading data to GPU
 Index buffer objects
 Shaders
 The vertex shader
 The fragment shader
 Shader variable qualifiers
 Attributes
 Uniforms
 The Varying qualifier
 Compiling and linking shaders
 Associating buffer objects with shader attributes
 Drawing our primitive
 Drawing using vertex buffer objects
 Drawing using index buffer objects
 Debugging a WebGL application
 Summary
 Chapter 2: Colors and Shading Languages
 Understanding colors
 Coloring our square
 Coloring using the vertex color. Learning more about colorsUnderstanding surface normals for lighting calculations
 Different types of lights used in games
 Understanding object materials
 Rendering 3D objects
 Exporting a 3D object from Blender
 Understanding and loading the Wavefront (OBJ) format
 Understanding the material file format (MTL)
 Converting the OBJ file to the JSON file format
 Loading the JSON model
 Rendering without light
 Understanding the illumination/reflection model
 Lambertian reflectance/diffuse reflection
 The Blinn-Phong model
 Understanding shading/interpolation models
 Flat shading. Gouraud shadingPhong shading
 Differentiating the shading models
 Implementing Gouraud shading on a Lambertian reflection model
 Implementing Gouraud shading --
Blinn-Phong reflection
 Implementing Phong shading --
Blinn-Phong reflection
 Summary
 Chapter 3: Loading the Game Scene
 Supporting multiple objects
 Implementing Face.js
 Implementing Geometry.js
 Implementing parseJSON.js
 Implementing StageObject.js
 Implementing Stage.js
 Using the architectural updates
 Understanding the main code
 Understanding WebGL --
a state machine
 Using mvMatrix states
 Understanding request animation frames. Loading the sceneUnderstanding positional lights
 Lighting up the scene with lamps
 The vertex shader
 The fragment shader
 Understanding the main code
 Multiple lights and shaders
 Adding multiple lamps
 The vertex shader
 The fragment shader
 Implementing Light.js
 Applying Lights.js
 Understanding the main code
 Summary
 Chapter 4: Applying Textures
 Texturing basics
 Understanding 2D textures and texture mapping
 Comprehending texture filtering
 Loading textures
 New data type --
sampler
 Applying a texture to the square
 The vertex shader
 The fragment shader
 Texture wrapping.