Real-time 3D Character Animation with Visual C++ (Paperback)

Introduction; 3D Basics; Drawing Points and Polygons the hard way; Drawing Points and Polygons the easy way with OpenGL; OpenGL lighting; Creating low polygon characters; Texture mapping; Setting up a single mesh character; Key frame animation; Inverse kinematics; Importing geometry and animation from Lightwave 3D; Importing geometry and animation from 3DS Max; Motion capture techniques; Collision detection; Using morph objects; Using sub division surfaces; Using multi resolution meshes; The scene graph; Wed3D, compression and streaming. Appendix A - Using Toon3D Creator; Appendix B - MFC Document view architecture; Appendix C - Further information. Free CD-ROM.