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Introduction to 3D Programming with ShiVa

by Simon Harwood

Introduction to 3D Programming with ShiVa T able of Contents

CHAPTER 1 - Introduction CHAPTER 2 - 3D Programming A Beginners Guide LIST OF 3D TERMS AND BRIEF MEANINGS CHAPTER 3 - Introduction to ShiVa AIMODEL EDITOR AMBIENCE EDITOR ANIMBANK EDITOR ANIMCLIP EDITOR ATTRIBUTES EDITOR DATA EXPLORER GAME EDITOR HUD EDITOR LOG REPORTER MATERIAL EDITOR NAVMESH EDITOR PARTICLE EDITOR PERFORMANCE REPORTER POLYTRAIL EDITOR SCENE EXPLORER SCENE VIEWER SCRIPT EDITOR SOUNDBANK EDITOR TERRAIN EDITOR WEB NAVIGATOR SETTING UP YOUR WORKSPACE CHAPTER 4 - Your First ShiVa Application CREATE YOUR PROJECT CREATE YOUR GAME CREATING A SCENE (AND I MEAN THAT IN A 3D WAY!) CREATING A CAMERA CREATING YOUR SCRIPTS THE CAMERA SCRIPT MORE ABOUT SCRIPTING ON WITH THE SHOW.. CHAPTER 5 - Chasing the Egg 1 3 5 8 9 14 18 22 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 9 9 9 10 4

CHAPTER 6 - Particular Trails POLYGON TRAILS GENERAL POLYGON TRAIL Generation Misc Color Opacity POLYGON TRAIL DEMO AutoRotate onStart ( ) onStop ( ) Idle.onEnter ( ) Idle.onLeave ( ) Idle.onLoop ( ) PolyTrailDemoMain onInit ( ) onMouseButtonDown ( nButton, nPointX, nPointY, nRayPntX, nRayPntY, nRayPntZ, nRayDirX, nRayDirY, nRayDirZ ) onMouseMove ( nPointX, nPointY, nDeltaX, nDeltaY, nRayPntX, nRayPntY, nRayPntZ, nRayDirX, nRayDirY, nRayDirZ ) onPauseTrails ( ) onStartTrails ( ) onStopTrails ( ) PARTICLE SYSTEMS GENERAL EMITTER PARTICLES Generation Life Time Initial Speed Rotation Gravity Friction Time Color Opacity Size PARTICLE SYSTEM DEMO Fire_Main loadScene ( ) onInit ( ) CHAPTER 7 - Sounds Good SOUND BANK DEMO PunctualSound_Ball setupDynamics ( ) onEnterFrame ( ) onInit ( ) PunctualSound_Main 3 5 6 6 6 7 1 2 2 3 5 7 8 10 16 17 17 17 17 18 18 19 19 19 20 20 21 22 23 23 24 25 27 27 27 28 28 28 29 30 30 31 37 37 37

loadScene ( ) onInit ( ) CHAPTER 8 - Its a Material World GENERAL TEXTURING TEXTURE MAPPING MODIFIER Generation Mode Scrolling Modifier Scaling Modifier TEXTURE PARAMETERS Addressing Filtering Alpha mode LIGHTING Method Shadowing Colors ADVANCED EFFECTS BATCH PROCESSING CHAPTER 9 - Heads Up! HUD MENU GENERAL MENU COMPONENT MENU TIMER MENU ACTION MENU COMPONENTS General Appearance Events Label Edit Button Progress Bar DVInput Movie List List Items List Scrollbars Slider Render Map ACTIONS CallAction EnterModalMode InterpolateBackgroundColor InterpolateBorderColor InterpolateForegroundColor InterpolateOpacity

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InterpolatePosition InterpolateProgressValue InterpolateSize LeaveModalMode PauseMovie PauseTimer PlayMovie PlaySound SendEventToUser SetActive SetBackgroundColor SetBackgroundImage SetBorderColor SetButtonText SetCursorPosition SetCursorVisible SetEditText SetFocus SetForegroundColor SetLabelText SetOpacity SetPosition SetSize SetVisible Sleep StartTimer StopAction StopMovie StopTimer HUD DEMO MoviePlayer_Main onEnterFrame ( ) onInit ( ) CHAPTER 10 - Attributed to You ATTRIBUTES MENU CONTROLLERS MENU COMMON ATTRIBUTES CAMERA ATTRIBUTES REFLECTOR ATTRIBUTES LIGHT ATTRIBUTES SHAPE ATTRIBUTES SFX ATTRIBUTES SENSOR ATTRIBUTES AI CONTROLLER ANIMATION CONTROLLER DYNAMICS CONTROLLER COLOUR DIALOG

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CHAPTER 11 - Pure Ambience AMBIENT BACKGROUND SHADOW FOG SKYBOX POSTRE (POST RENDER EFFECTS) SATURATION BLOOM LIGHTING MUSIC AMBIENCE DEMO AmbientMusic_Main onInit ( ) loadScene ( ) startMusic ( ) CHAPTER 12 - Animating the Beast ANIMBANK AnimBank Menu Editing Menu ANIMCLIP Animation Clip menu Channel menu Track menu Selection menu Track toolbar Graph toolbar ANIMATION DEMO SimpleAnimation_Character onChangeAnim ( nIndex ) onEnterFrame ( ) onInit ( ) Main onChangeAnim ( nIndex ) onInit ( ) CHAPTER 13 - Getting from A to B ADDING NAVMESH TO TERRAIN ACCESSING THE NAVEMESH FROM SCRIPT navigation.setTargetNode navigation.setAcceleration navigation.setSpeedLimit navigation.setHeightOffset navigation.getNode navigation.getTargetNode navigation.getTargetNodeDistance navigation.getSpeed navigation.getVelocity 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 1 2 2 4 6 7 7 9 9 10 12 21 21 21 22 23 23 24 2 2 3 3 4 5 6 6 8 12 13 14 15 15 15

navigation.setRandomTargetNode navigation.setNearestTargetNode navigation.setNearestNode navigation.setPathMaxLength navigation.enableNodesInBox navigation.enableNode NAVIGATION DEMO Test_ClickAndGo onInit ( ) onMouseButtonDown ( nButton, nPointX, nPointY, nRayPntX, nRayPntY, nRayPntZ, nRayDirX, nRayDirY, nRayDirZ ) Test_ClickAndGo_Character setupAnimations ( ) setupDynamics ( ) setupNavigation ( ) updateAnimations ( ) updateDynamics ( ) onEnterFrame ( ) onGoto ( x, y, z ) onInit ( ) CHAPTER 14 - A Quick Intro to XML with ShiVa LOAD AN XML DOCUMENT SEND AN XML DOCUMENT PARSE AN XML DOCUMENT BUILD OR MODIFY AN XML DOCUMENT CHAPTER 15 - The HLDL Framework CREATING THE GAME CREATING OUR FIRST SCENE IMPORTING THE REST OF THE GAME ITEMS CHAPTER 16 - Creating a Terrain GEOMETRY ROLL-UP MATERIALS ROLL-UP ADDING VEGETATION TO OUR SCENE CHAPTER 17 - The Game Scripts ADDING THE HLD LIBRARY MODELS HLDMain onInit ( ) onEnterFrame ( ) onForwardEvent ( sObjectTag, sAIModel, sHandler, vParam0, vParam1, vParam2, vParam3 ) onKeyboardKeyDown ( kKeyCode ) onKeyboardKeyUp ( kKeyCode ) onMouseButtonDown ( nButton, nPointX, nPointY, nRayPntX, nRayPntY, nRayPntZ, nRayDirX, nRayDirY, nRayDirZ ) onMouseButtonUp ( nButton, nPointX, nPointY, nRayPntX, nRayPntY, nRayPntZ, nRayDirX, nRayDirY, nRayDirZ ) onMouseMove ( nButton, nPointX, nPointY, nRayPntX, nRayPntY, nRayPntZ, nRayDirX, nRayDirY, nRayDirZ )

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onRegisterHUD ( sInstanceID ) onRegisterObjectEvent ( hObject, sAIModel, sEvent ) onSetNextScene ( sScene ) onSwitchScene ( ) onUnregisterHUD ( sInstanceID ) onUnregisterObject ( hObject ) buildStartupSequence ( ) destroyRegisteredHUDInstances ( ) findAndUseStartupCamera ( ) findUnderCursorObject ( nRayPntX, nRayPntY, nRayPntZ, nRayDirX, nRayDirY, nRayDirZ ) sendMouseClickEventToObject ( hObject, nButton ) sendMouseEnterEventToObject ( hObject ) sendMouseLeaveEventToObject ( hObject ) switchScene ( ) HLDVisitCamera onInit ( ) onDinoCollision ( sTag ) onEnterFrame ( ) onEventKeyDown ( kKey ) onEventKeyUp ( kKey ) onMouseButtonDown ( nButton, nPointX, nPointY, nRayPntX, nRayPntY, nRayPntZ, nRayDirX, nRayDirY, nRayDirZ ) onMouseButtonUp ( nButton, nPointX, nPointY, nRayPntX, nRayPntY, nRayPntZ, nRayDirX, nRayDirY, nRayDirZ ) onUpdateScore ( n ) onWeaponChange ( sWeapon ) onWeaponShoot ( ) addDino ( n ) atan2 ( inZ, inX ) centerMouse ( ) createDynObect ( ) createHUD ( ) createIntroHUD ( ) gameOver ( sType ) registerTriggers ( ) updateRadar ( nDist, nDiff ) updateWeapon ( ) vector2Rotation ( V2R_OriginObject, V2R_TargetObject ) Weapon0 onEnterFrame ( ) onRotateHelix ( ) Weapon0Bullet explosionTest ( o ) onDestroy ( ) onSetup ( srcX, srcY, srcZ, dstX, dstY, dstZ ) Explode Explode_onEnter ( ) Fly Fly_onLoop ( ) HLDMainHUD

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createAmmo ( hUser ) createRadar ( hUser ) createOptionScreen ( ) createScore ( hUser ) createTime ( hUser ) createTitle ( hUser ) onAmmoSetValue ( n ) onClearRadar ( ) onInit ( ) onQuit ( ) onRadarUpdate ( sTag ) onRun ( ) onScoreSetValue ( n ) onTimeSetValue ( n ) DinoAI atan2 ( inZ, inX ) vector2Rotation (V2R_OriginObject, V2R_TargetObject) onInit ( ) onSetup (dinoType ) onSleep ( ) Eating Eating_onEnter ( ) Eating_onLeave ( ) Eating_onLoop ( ) Running Running_onEnter ( ) Running_onLoop ( ) Walking Walking_onEnter ( ) Walking_onLoop ( )

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