Real-Time Visual Effects for Game Programming

This book introduces the latest visual effects (VFX) techniques that can be applied to game programming. The usefulness of the physicality-based VFX techniques, such as water, fire, smoke, and wind, has been proven through active involvement and utilization in movies and images. However, they have yet to be extensively applied in the game industry, due to the high technical barriers. Readers of this book can learn not only the theories about the latest VFX techniques, but also the methodology of game programming, step by step. The practical VFX processing techniques introduced in this book will provide very helpful information to game programmers. Due to the lack of instructional books about VFX-related game programming, the demand for knowledge regarding these high-tech VFXs might be very high.

List of contents

Basic Concepts of Visual Effects.- Water and Bubbles.- Smoke.- Fire and Ice.- Fluid Interaction.- Real-Time Visual Effects Programming.

Summary

This book introduces the latest visual effects (VFX) techniques that can be applied to game programming. The usefulness of the physicality-based VFX techniques, such as water, fire, smoke, and wind, has been proven through active involvement and utilization in movies and images. However, they have yet to be extensively applied in the game industry, due to the high technical barriers. Readers of this book can learn not only the theories about the latest VFX techniques, but also the methodology of game programming, step by step. The practical VFX processing techniques introduced in this book will provide very helpful information to game programmers. Due to the lack of instructional books about VFX-related game programming, the demand for knowledge regarding these high-tech VFXs might be very high.

Product details

• Authors: Shin-Jin Kang, Chang-Hu Kim, Chang-Hun Kim, Soo-Kyun Kim, Soo-Kyun et al Kim, Sun-Jeon Kim, Sun-Jeong Kim
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9789811013485
• ISBN: 978-981-10-1348-5
• No. of pages: 227
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 373 g
• Illustrations: XII, 227 p. 166 illus., 85 illus. in color.
• Series: Gaming Media and Social Effects; Gaming Media and Social Effect; Gaming Media and Social Effects
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; B, Mathematics, engineering, Physics, Visualization, Programming Techniques, Computer programming, Mathematical physics, Combinatorics & graph theory, Data and Information Visualization, Computational Intelligence, Computer programming / software engineering, Mathematical Methods in Physics