OpenGL Game Development By Example

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "As usual, change the middle line in update to call drawQuad."

A block of code is set as follows:

void CheckCollisions()
{
  if (player->IntersectsRect(pickup))
  {
    pickup->IsVisible(false);
    pickup->IsActive(false);
    player->SetValue(player->GetValue() + pickup->GetValue());
    pickupSpawnTimer = 0.0f;
  }
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items ...