Game Physics Engine Development

Veteran game programmer/consultant/author Ian Millington brings us a newly revamped and updated edition to a KEY game text that covers the full process of building a physics engine from start to finish--including NEW coverage on casual games and collision detection.

Physics is really important to game programmers who need to know how to add physical realism to their games. In video games, the physics engine uses real-time physics to improve realism. This book aims to take readers through the process of building a complete game-ready physics engine from scratch.

Praise for 1st edition: "The first game physics book to emphasize building an actual engine...his book fills a gap by demonstrating how you actually build a physics engine." - Dave Eberly, President, Geometric Tools. "A competent programmer with sufficient mathematical sophistication could build a physics engine just from the text and equations--even without the accompanying source code. You can't say this about a lot of books!" - Philip J. Schneider, Industrial Light & Magic.

Autorentext
Ian Millington is a partner of IPR Ventures, a consulting company developing next-generation AI technologies for entertainment, modeling, and simulation. Previously he founded Mindlathe Ltd, the largest specialist AI middleware company in computer games, working with on a huge range of game genres and technologies. He has a long background in AI, including PhD research in complexity theory and natural computing. He has published academic and professional papers and articles on topics ranging from paleontology to hypertext.

Zusammenfassung
Veteran game programmer/consultant/author Ian Millington brings us a newly revamped and updated edition to a KEY game text that covers the full process of building a physics engine from start to finish--including NEW coverage on casual games and collision detection.

Inhalt

Introduction. Particle Physics: The Mathematics of Particles. The Laws of Motion. The Particle Physics Engine. Mass Aggregate Physics: Adding General Forces. Springs and Spring-Like Things. Hard Constraints. The Mass Aggregate Physics Engine. Rigid-Body Physics: The Mathematics of Rotations. Laws of Motion for Rigid Bodies. The Rigid-Body Physics Engine. Collision Detection: Collision Detection. Generating Contacts. Contact Physics: Collision Resolution. Resting Contacts and Friction. Stability and Optimization. Putting It All Together. Further Topics in Physics: Physics in Two Dimensions. Other Programming Languages. Other Types of Physics. Appendices: Useful Inertia Tensors. Useful Friction Coefficients. Mathematics Summary