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Pro Java 6 3D Game Development

Java 3D, JOGL, JInput and JOAL APIs

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Andrew Davison
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  • This is the first and only book that covers 3D games programming on PCs using Java 3D and JOGL

  • The book utilizes gaming features offered by the new Java 6 platform, and will be the first to market on Java 6 game development

  • Author, Andrew Davison, is very well-recognized as a Java gaming developer guru from his first book, Killer Game Programming in Java and its Web site and more

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Java 3D

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introducing Java 3D

      Pages 3-14

    3. Get a Life (in 3D)

      Pages 15-48

    4. Get a Life (the Java 6 Way)

      Pages 49-82

    5. The Colliding Grabbers

      Pages 83-120

    6. When Worlds Collide

      Pages 121-144

    7. A Multitextured Landscape

      Pages 145-177

    8. Walking Around the Models

      Pages 179-201

    9. More Backgrounds and Overlays

      Pages 203-229

  3. Nonstandard Input Devices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
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    2. More Backgrounds and Overlays

      Pages 233-249

    3. Navigating a 3D Scene by Waving Your Arm

      Pages 251-271

    4. Building a Gamepad Controller with JInput

      Pages 273-301

    5. Gamepad Grabbers

      Pages 303-326

    6. 3D Sound with JOAL

      Pages 327-347

    7. The P5 Glove

      Pages 349-373

  4. JOGL

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 375-375
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    2. Two JOGL Programming Frameworks

      Pages 377-407

    3. Touring the World

      Pages 409-438
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About this book

Create strange lands filled with mysterious objects (cows frozen in blocks of ice, chirping penguins, golden globes with wavering eyes) and throw away your keyboard and mouse, to go exploring armed only with a gamepad, power glove, or just your bare hands!

Java gaming expert Andrew Davison will show you how to develop and program 3D games in Java technology on a PC, with an emphasis on the construction of 3D landscapes. It's assumed you have a reasonable knowledge of Java—the sort of thing picked up in a first Java course at school.

Topics are split into three sections: Java 3D API, non-standard input devices for game playing, and JOGL. Java 3D is a high-level 3D graphics API, and JOGL is a lower-level Java wrapper around the popular OpenGL graphics API.

You'll look at three non-standard input devices: the webcam, the game pad, and the P5 data glove.

Along the way, you'll utilize several other games-related libraries including: JInput, JOAL, JMF, and Odejava.

Learn all the latest Java SE 6 features relevant to gaming, including: splash screens, JavaScript scripting as well as the desktop and system tray interfaces.

Unique coverage of Java game development using both the Java 3D API and Java for OpenGL, as well as invaluable experience from a recognized Java gaming guru, will provide you with a distinct advantage after reading this book.

About the author

Andrew Davison received his Ph.D. from Imperial College in London in 1989. He was a lecturer at the University of Melbourne for six years before moving to Prince of Songkla University in Thailand in 1996. He has also taught in Bangkok, Khon Kaen, and Hanoi. His research interests include scripting languages, logic programming, visualization, and teaching methodologies. This latter topic led to an interest in teaching games programming in 1999. His O'Reilly book, iKiller Game Programming in Java/i, was published in 2005.

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