GAME

PROGRAMMING
GEMS 8
Edited by Adam Lake

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 Contents
Preface ix
Contributors xiv

Section 1 Graphics 1

Introduction 1
Jason Mitchell, Valve

1.1 Fast Font Rendering with Instancing 3

Aurelio Reis, id Software

1.2 Principles and Practice of Screen Space Ambient Occlusion 12

Dominic Filion, Blizzard Entertainment

1.3 Multi-Resolution Deferred Shading 32

Hyunwoo Ki, INNOACE Co., Ltd

1.4 View Frustum Culling of Catmull-Clark Patches in DirectX 11 39

Rahul P. Sathe, Intel Advanced Visual Computing (AVC)

1.5 Ambient Occlusion Using DirectX Compute Shader 50

Jason Zink

1.6 Eye-View Pixel Anti-Aliasing for Irregular Shadow Mapping 74

Nico Galoppo, Intel Advanced Visual Computing (AVC)

1.7 Overlapped Execution on Programmable Graphics Hardware . . . . . . . 90

Allen Hux, Intel Advanced Visual Computing (AVC)

1.8 Techniques for Effective Vertex and Fragment Shading on the SPUs. . 101
Steven Tovey, Bizarre Creations Ltd.

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Section 2 Physics and Animation 119

Introduction 119
Jeff Lander, Darwin 3D, LLC

2.1 A Versatile and Interactive Anatomical Human Face Model 121

Marco Fratarcangeli

2.2 Curved Paths for Seamless Character Animation 132

Michael Lewin

2.3 Non-Iterative, Closed-Form, Inverse Kinematic Chain Solver (NCF IK) . 141
Philip Taylor

2.4 Particle Swarm Optimization for Game Programming 152

Dario L. Sancho-Pradel

2.5 Improved Numerical Integration with Analytical Techniques 168

Eric Brown

2.6 What a Drag: Modeling Realistic Three-Dimensional

Air and Fluid Resistance. . 183
B. Charles Rasco, Ph.D., President, Smarter Than You Software

2.7 Application of Quasi-Fluid Dynamics for Arbitrary Closed Meshes . . . 1 9 4

KrzysztofMieloszyk, Gdansk University of Technology

2.8 Approximate Convex Decomposition for

Real-Time Collision Detection 202
KhaledMamou

Section 3 AS 211
Introduction 211
Borut Pfeifer

3.1 Al Level of Detail for Really Large Worlds 213

Cyril Brom, Charles University in Prague
Tomds Poch, Ondrej Sery

3.2 A Pattern-Based Approach to Modular Al for Games 232

Kevin Dill, Boston University
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3.3 Automated Navigation Mesh Generation Using

Advanced Growth-Based Techniques 244
D. Hunter Hale

3.4 A Practical Spatial Architecture for Animal and Agent Navigation . . . 256
Michael Ramsey—Blue Fang Games, LLC

3.5 Applying Control Theory to Game Al and Physics 264

Brian Pickrell

3.6 Adaptive Tactic Selection in First-Person Shooter (FPS) Games . . . . 279

Thomas Hartley, Institute of Gaming and Animation (IGA), University ofWolverhampton
Quasim Mehdi, Institute of Gaming and Animation (IGA), University ofWolverhampton

3.7 Embracing Chaos Theory: Generating Apparent

Unpredictability through Deterministic Systems 288
Dave Mark, Intrinsic Algorithm LLC

3.8 Needs-Based Al 302

Robert Zubek

3.9 A Framework for Emotional Digital Actors 312

Phil Carlisle

3.10 Scalable Dialog Authoring 323

Baylor Wetzel, Shikigami Games

3.11 Graph-Based Data Mining for Player Trace Analysis in MMORPGs. . . 335
Nikhil S. Ketkar and G. Michael Youngblood

Section 4 General Programming 353

Introduction 353
Doug Binks, Intel Semiconductors AG

4.1 Fast-lsA 355

Joshua Grass, PhD

4.2 Registered Variables 363

Peter Dalton, Smart Bomb Interactive

4.3 Efficient and Scalable Multi-Core Programming 373

Jean-Francois Dubi, Ubisoft Montreal
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4.4 Game Optimization through the Lens of Memory and Data Access . . 385
Steve Rabin, Nintendo of America Inc.

4.5 Stack Allocation 393

Michael Dailly

4.6 Design and Implementation of an In-Game Memory Profiler 402

Ricky Lung

4.7 A More Informative Error Log Generator 409

J.L. Raza and Peter Iliev Jr.

4.8 Code Coverage for QA 416

Matthew Jack

4.9 Domain-Specific Languages in Game Engines 428

Gabriel Ware

4.10 A Flexible User Interface Layout System for Divergent Environments . . 442
Gero Gerber, Electronic Arts (EA Phenomic)

4.11 Road Creation for Projectable Terrain Meshes 453

Igor Borovikov, Aleksey Kadukin

4.12 Developing for Digital Drawing Tablets 462

Neil Gower

4.13 Creating a Multi-Threaded Actor-Based

Architecture Using Intel® Threading Building Blocks 473
Robert Jay Gould, Square-Enix

Section 5 Networking and Multiplayer 485

Introduction 485
Craig Tiller and Adam Lake

5.1 Secure Channel Communication 487

Chris Lomont

5.2 Social Networks i n Games: Playing w i t h Your Facebook Friends . . . . 4 9 8

Claus Hofele, Team Bondi
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5.3 Asynchronous I/O for Scalable Game Servers 506

Neil Gower

5.4 Introduction to 3D Streaming Technology in

Massively Multiplayer Online Games 514
Kevin Kaichuan He

Section 6 Audio 539

Introduction 539
Brian Schmidt, Founder and Executive Director, GameSoundCon;
President, Brian Schmidt Studios

6.1 A Practical DSP Radio Effect 542

Ian Ni-Lewis

6.2 Empowering Your Audio Team with a Great Engine 553

Mat Noguchi, Bungie

6.3 Real-Time Sound Synthesis for Rigid Bodies 563

Zhimin Ren and Ming Lin

Section 7 General Purpose Computing on GPUs 573

Introduction 573
Adam Lake, Sr. Graphics Software Architect, Advanced Visual Computing, Intel

7.1 Using Heterogeneous Parallel Architectures with OpenCL 575

Udeepta Bordoloi, Benedict R. Gaster, and Marc Romankewicz, Advanced Micro Devices

7.2 PhysX GPU Rigid Bodies in Batman: Arkham Asylum 590

Richard Tonge, NVIDIA Corporation
Ben Wyatt and Ben Nicholson, Rocksteady Studios

7.3 Fast GPU Fluid Simulation in PhysX 602

Simon Schirm and Mark Harris, NVIDIA Corporation

Index 616