Hands On AppGameKit Studio Volume 2

Tweening

• Sprite Tweening
• Text and Character Tweening
• Custom Tweening
• Chaining Tweens

Skeletons

• Spine Models
• Animation Construction
• Manipulating Bones

Time and Date

• AGK2 Time Functions
• AGK2 Date Functions
• Unix Dates
• Creating New Date Functions

Creating GUI Controls

• Creating a GUI Button
• Creating a Dialog Box
• Creating a Checkbox
• Creating a Radiobutton
• Creating a Frame
• SCissor Commands
• Creating a Pop Up Menu
• Creating a Number Pad
• Creating a GUI Function Library

Memblocks

• Creating and Accessing Memblocks
• Creating a List Data Structure
• Image Memblocks
• Sound Memblocks

Memblock Images

• Creating an Image from a Memblock
• Programming a Mandelbrot Image
• Zooming In
• The Limitations of float Values

2D Physics

• Sprite Collisions
• Sprite Bounding Areas
• World Physics
• Attractive and Repulsive Forces
• Groups and Categories
• 2D Ray Casting
• The Scene Editor's 2D Physics

2D Physics: Joints

• Fixed Joint
• Weld Joint
• Distance Joint
• Mouse Joint
• Revolute Joint
• Prismatic Joint
• Gear Joint
• Pulley Joint
• Joint Motors

3D Graphics: The Basics

• 3D Axes
• The Left Hand Coordinate System
• Lines, Vectors and Planes
• Vertices, Edges, and Faces
• Front and Back Faces
• Model Resolution
• 3D Primitives
• Local and World Axes
• Overview of Lighting, Cameras and Textures
• Vertex and Face Normals
• Normal Mapping
• Overview of Shaders
• Perspective and Orthogonal Projections

3D Graphics: Objects

• AGK2 3D Primitives
• Transforming Objects
• Quaternion-Based Rotation
• Object Tweening

Cameras and Lighting

• Creating a Camera Controller
• First Person Perspective
• Billboarding
• Quaternion-Based Rotation
• Camera Tweening
• Ambient, Directional and Point Lights
• Object Reflectivity

Solitaire - The Board Game

• Rules of the Game
• Using a 3D Cursor
• Using Touch Control
• Creating Replayable Games

3D Advanced Models

• Multi-mesh Models
• Meshes and Memblocks
• Parent/Child Models
• Bones and Animated Models
• Quaternion-Related Bone Rotation

3D Extras

• Fog
• Sky Boxes
• Terrain
• 3D Vectors
• 3D Ray and Sphere Casts
• Shadows
• 3D Particles
• Shaders

3D Physics 1

• Setting Up a 3D Physics World
• Collision Shapes
• Collision Handling
• 3D Physics Ray and Sphere Casting

3D Physics 2

• Joints
• Joint Motors
• Creating Ragdoll Physics
• Using a Character Controller

Using a LAN

• Networking Basics
• Host and Clients
• Sending Messages
• Coding DIfferences between Host and Client
• Local Variables
• Network Broadcasts
• Network Timing
• Sockets

Accessing a Server

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• Transfering Files
• Using Server-Side PHP
• Security

A Multi-Player Game

• Tic Tac Toe
• Setting Up the Network
• Taking Turns
• Transferring Data

Artifical Intelligence in Games

• Artifical Intelligence Overview
• The Rules of Gomoku
• Implementing the Game
• Adding Artifical Intelligence
• Scanning Lines
• Weighting Possible Moves
• Detecting a Win

Data Structures

• Queue
• Stack
• Set