Shows step-by-step how to make a shader-based graphics engine and how to tame the technology. This work covers the essential techniques of scene graph management, and methods for managing memory usage in game consoles and portable game players. It also includes shader programming, physics, and memory management for game consoles and portables.

This title is a major revision of the international best-seller on game programming! Graphics hardware has evolved enormously in the last decade. Hardware can now be directly controlled through techniques such as shader programming, which requires an entirely new thought process of a programmer. 3D Game Engine Design, Second Edition shows step-by-step how to make a shader-based graphics engine and how to tame the new technology. Much new material has been added, including more than twice the coverage of the essential techniques of scene graph management, as well as new methods for managing memory usage in the new generation of game consoles and portable game players. There are expanded discussions of collision detection, collision avoidance, and physics all challenging subjects for developers. It is the revision of the classic work on game engines the core of any game. It includes Wild Magic, a commercial quality game engine in source code that illustrates how to build a real-time rendering system from the lowest-level details all the way to a working game. It is fully revised and updated in 4 colors, including major new content on shader programming, physics, and memory management for the next generation game consoles and portables.

• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Graphics System
• 3 Renderers
• 4 Special Effects Using Shaders
• 5 Scene Graphs
• 6 Scene Graph Compilers
• 7 Memory Management
• 8 Controller-Based Animation
• 9 Spatial Sorting
• 10 Level of Detail
• 11 Terrain
• 12 Collision Detection
• 13 Physics
• 14 Object-Oriented Infrastructure
• 15 Mathematical Topics
• Bibliography
• Index