You're reading from Mastering C++ Game Animation Programming Enhance your skills with advanced game animation techniques in C++, OpenGL, and Vulkan

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835881927

Length 544 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Concepts

Game Design Animation

Author (1):

Michael Dunsky

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Populating the World with the Game Character Models

2. Working with Open Asset Import Library FREE CHAPTER

3. Moving Animation Calculations from CPU to GPU

4. Adding a Visual Selection

5. Part 2: Transforming the Model Viewer into an Animation Editor

6. Enhancing Application Handling

7. Saving and Loading the Configuration

8. Extending Camera Handling

9. Part 3: Tuning Character Animations

10. Enhancing Animation Controls

11. An Introduction to Collision Detection

12. Adding Behavior and Interaction

13. Advanced Animation Blending

14. Part 4: Enhancing Your Virtual World

15. Loading a Game Map

16. Advanced Collision Detection

17. Adding Simple Navigation

18. Creating Immersive Interactive Worlds

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

20. Index

Linking states and animations

We start with the connections between the three states (idle, walk, and run), and map the corresponding model animation clips to these three states. The IdleWalkRunBlending struct and the msIWRBlendings member variable in the ModelSettings struct are already in place, so we only have to take care of the UI.

Mapping idle/walk/run animations

Figure 7.1 shows the mapping section of the Control window for the three states: idle, walk, and run:

Figure 7.1: Mapping between move direction, move state, and animation clip

We will step through the control elements from top to bottom and explore the new code in the createSettingsWindow() method of the UserInterface class:

The Dir combo box shows the names of the available entries of the moveDirection enum class. The combo box is filled by using the micMoveDirectionMap map from the ModelInstanceCamData struct. We store the selected entry in a static moveDirection type variable to retain...