C++ Game Animation Programming - Second Edition

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Creating the Game Window

This is the start of your journey into the world of game character animation programming. In this book, you will open a window into a virtual world, enabling the user to take control and move around in it. The window will utilize hardware-accelerated graphics rendering to show detailed characters that have been loaded from a simple file on your system. You will be introduced to character animation, starting with basic steps such as how to show a single, static pose, and you will move on to more advanced topics such as Inverse Kinematics. By the end, the application will have a large crowd of animated people, who are the inhabitants of your virtual world. In addition, the window will have fancy UI elements that you ...