Game Development ToolsThis book brings the insights of game professionals, DCC creators, hardware vendors, and current researchers together into a collection that focuses on the most underrepresented and critical part of game production: tools development. The first gems-type book dedicated to game tools, this volume focuses on practical, implementable tools for game de |
Contents
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A Planned Approach | 19 |
Chapter 3 Workflow Improvement via Automatic Asset Tracking | 29 |
Chapter 4 Continuous Integration for Games | 39 |
Chapter 5 Persistence Management of Asset Metadata and Tags | 53 |
Chapter 6 RealTime Tool Communication | 63 |
Chapter 7 Robust File IO | 71 |
Chapter 14 ObjectOriented Data | 203 |
Chapter 15 Improving Remote Perforce Usage | 211 |
Part III ThirdParty Tools | 217 |
Chapter 16 Vector Displacement in the Sculpting Workflow | 219 |
Chapter 17 Optimizing a TaskBased Game Engine | 231 |
Chapter 18 Efficient Texture Creation with Genetica | 249 |
Chapter 19 Reducing Video Game Creation Effort with Eberos GML2D | 267 |
Applied DataDriven Design | 279 |
Part II Buildable Tools | 77 |
Chapter 8 RealTime Constructive Solid Geometry | 79 |
Chapter 9 A COLLADA Toolbox | 97 |
Chapter 10 ShapePreserving Terrain Decimation and Associated Tools | 127 |
Chapter 11 InGame Audio Debugging Tools | 145 |
Chapter 12 Pragmatic XML Use in Tools | 169 |
Chapter 13 Low Coupling Command System | 193 |
Chapter 21 GPU Debugging and Profiling with NVIDIA Parallel Nsight | 287 |
Chapter 22 FBX Games Development Tools | 309 |
About the Contributors | 319 |
Color Insert | 325 |
Back cover | 341 |
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