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SFML Game Development

SFML Game Development

By : Artur Moreira, Henrik Vogelius Hansson, Jan Haller, Henrik Valter Vogelius, SFML
3.8 (31)
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SFML Game Development

SFML Game Development

3.8 (31)
By: Artur Moreira, Henrik Vogelius Hansson, Jan Haller, Henrik Valter Vogelius, SFML

Overview of this book

Game development comprises the combination of many different aspects such as game logics, graphics, audio, user input, physics and much more. SFML is an Open Source C++ library designed to make game development more accessible, exposing multimedia components to the user through a simple, yet powerful interface. If you are a C++ programmer with a stack of ideas in your head and seeking a platform for implementation, your search ends here.Starting with nothing more than a blank screen, SFML Game Development will provide you with all the guidance you need to create your first fully featured 2D game using SFML 2.0. By the end, you'll have learned the basic principles of game development, including advanced topics such as how to network your game, how to utilize particle systems and much more.SFML Game Development starts with an overview of windows, graphics, and user inputs. After this brief introduction, you will start to get to grips with SFML by building up a world of different game objects, and implementing more and more gameplay features. Eventually, you'll be handling advanced visual effects, audio effects and network programming like an old pro. New concepts are discussed, while the code steadily develops.SFML Game Development will get you started with animations, particle effects and shaders. As well as these fundamental game aspects, we're also covering network programming to the extent where you'll be able to support the game running from two different machines. The most important part, the gameplay implementation with enemies and missiles, will make up the core of our top-scrolling airplane shoot' em-up game!You will learn everything you need in SFML Game Development in order to start with game development and come closer to creating your own game.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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SFML Game Development
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Error handling


The basic steps are done, the main functionality is implemented. However, there may be errors which we have to recognize and handle meaningfully. The first error can occur during the loading of the texture. For example, the specified file might not exist, or the file might have an invalid image format, or be too big for the video memory of the graphics card. To handle such errors, the method sf::Texture::loadFromFile() returns a Boolean value that is true in case of success, and false in case of failure.

There are several strategies to react to resource loading errors. In our case, we have to consider that the texture is later needed by sprites that are rendered on the screen—if such a sprite requests the texture, we must give something back. One possibility would be to provide a default texture (for example, plain white), so the sprites are just drawn as a white rectangle. However, we do not want the player of our game to fiddle around with rectangles; he should either have...

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