SFML Game Development -- Table of Contents -- SFML Game Development -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Making a Game Tick -- Introducing SFML -- Downloading and installation -- A minimal example -- A few notes on C++ -- Developing the first game -- The Game class -- Game loops and frames -- Input over several frames -- Vector algebra -- Frame-independent movement -- Fixed time steps -- Other techniques related to frame rates -- Displaying sprites on the screen -- File paths and working directories -- Real-time rendering -- Adapting the code -- Summary -- 2. Keeping Track of Your Textures - Resource Management -- Defining resources -- Resources in SFML -- Textures -- Images -- Fonts -- Shaders -- Sound buffers -- Music -- A typical use case -- Graphics -- Audio -- Acquiring, releasing, and accessing resources -- An automated approach -- Finding an appropriate container -- Loading from files -- Accessing the textures -- Error handling -- Boolean return values -- Throwing exceptions -- Assertions -- Generalizing the approach -- Compatibility with sf::Music -- A special case - sf::Shader -- Summary -- 3. Forge of the Gods - Shaping Our World -- Entities -- Aircraft -- Alternative entity designs -- Rendering the scene -- Relative coordinates -- SFML and transforms -- Scene graphs -- Scene nodes -- Node insertion and removal -- Making scene nodes drawable -- Drawing entities -- Connecting entities with resources -- Aligning the origin -- Scene layers -- Updating the scene.

One step back - absolute transforms -- The view -- Viewport -- View optimizations -- Resolution and aspect ratio -- View scrolling -- Zoom and rotation -- Landscape rendering -- SpriteNode -- Landscape texture -- Texture repeating -- Composing our world -- World initialization -- Loading the textures -- Building the scene -- Update and draw -- Integrating the Game class -- The run() method -- Summary -- 4. Command and Control - Input Handling -- Polling events -- Window events -- Joystick events -- Keyboard events -- Mouse events -- Getting the input state in real time -- Events and real-time input - when to use which -- Delta movement from the mouse -- Playing nice with your application neighborhood -- A command-based communication system -- Introducing commands -- Receiver categories -- Command execution -- Command queues -- Handling player input -- Commands in a nutshell -- Implementing the game logic -- A general-purpose communication mechanism -- Customizing key bindings -- Why a player is not an entity -- Summary -- 5. Diverting the Game Flow - State Stack -- Defining a state -- The state stack -- Adding states to StateStack -- Handling updates, input, and drawing -- Input -- Update -- Draw -- Delayed pop/push operations -- The state context -- Integrating the stack in the Application class -- Navigating between states -- Creating the game state -- The title screen -- Main menu -- Pausing the game -- The loading screen - sample -- Progress bar -- ParallelTask -- Thread -- Concurrency -- Task implementation -- Summary -- 6. Waiting and Maintenance Area - Menus -- The GUI hierarchy, the Java way -- Updating the menu -- The promised key bindings -- Summary -- 7. Warfare Unleashed - Implementing Gameplay -- Equipping the entities -- Introducing hitpoints -- Storing entity attributes in data tables -- Displaying text -- Creating enemies.

Movement patterns -- Spawning enemies -- Adding projectiles -- Firing bullets and missiles -- Homing missiles -- Picking up some goodies -- Collision detection and response -- Finding the collision pairs -- Reacting to collisions -- An outlook on optimizations -- An interacting world -- Cleaning everything up -- Out of view, out of the world -- The final update -- Victory and defeat -- Summary -- 8. Every Pixel Counts - Adding Visual Effects -- Defining texture atlases -- Adapting the game code -- Low-level rendering -- OpenGL and graphics cards -- Understanding render targets -- Texture mapping -- Vertex arrays -- Particle systems -- Particles and particle types -- Particle nodes -- Emitter nodes -- Affectors -- Embedding particles in the world -- Animated sprites -- The Eagle has rolled! -- Post effects and shaders -- Fullscreen post effects -- Shaders -- The bloom effect -- Summary -- 9. Cranking Up the Bass - Music and Sound Effects -- Music themes -- Loading and playing -- Use case - In-game themes -- Sound effects -- Loading, inserting, and playing -- Removing sounds -- Use case - GUI sounds -- Sounds in 3D space -- The listener -- Attenuation factor and minimum distance -- Positioning the listener -- Playing spatial sounds -- Use case - In-game sound effects -- Summary -- 10. Company Atop the Clouds - Co-op Multiplayer -- Playing multiplayer games -- Interacting with sockets -- TCP -- UDP -- Socket selectors -- Custom protocols -- Data transport -- Network architectures -- Peer-to-peer -- Client-server architecture -- Authoritative servers -- Creating the structure for multiplayer -- Working with the Server -- Server thread -- Server loop -- Peers and aircraft -- Hot Seat -- Accepting new clients -- Handling disconnections -- Incoming packets -- Studying our protocol -- Understanding the ticks and updates -- Synchronization issues.

Taking a peek in the other end - the client -- Client packets -- Transmitting game actions via network nodes -- The new pause state -- Settings -- The new Player class -- Latency -- Latency versus bandwidth -- View scrolling compensation -- Aircraft interpolation -- Cheating prevention -- Summary -- Index.