Panda3D 1.6 Game Engine Beginner's Guide

This is the A-Z of Panda3D for developers who have never used the engine before. Step-by-step, it takes you from first principles to ultimately creating a marketable game. You’ll learn through first-hand experience and clear explanations.

Key Features

• The first and only guide to building a finished game using Panda3D
• Learn about tasks that can be used to handle changes over time
• Respond to events like keyboard key presses, mouse clicks, and more
• Take advantage of Panda3D's built-in shaders and filters to decorate objects with gloss, glow, and bump effects
• Follow a step-by-step, tutorial-focused process that matches the development process of the game with plenty of screenshots and thoroughly explained code for easy pick up

Book Description

What you will learn

• Create and use tasks
• Respond to and handle events
• Implement texturing with built-in shaders
• Exercise collision detection
• Implement a graphical user interface
• Utilize the Panda3D animation system
• Master the power and purpose of intervals
• Add audio and use the OpenAL library
• Understand garbage collection
• Package the game into an installer
• Use Spacescape and explosion texture generator to create certain art assets

Who this book is for

If you are an independent developer interested in creating your own video games or other 3D applications using Panda3D for personal or commercial distribution at minimal expense, this book is definitely for you. A basic understanding of general programming, such as familiarity with the concept of a variable, is necessary. Some familiarity with object-oriented programming and the Python language is expected, but not essential.

This book does not cover the creation of three dimensional models or similar art assets, nor does it cover the creation of two dimensional art assets or audio assets.