Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide: Create amazing games with Qt 5, C++, and Qt Quick

Qt is the leading cross-platform toolkit for all significant desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms and is becoming popular by the day, especially on mobile and embedded devices. It's a powerful tool that perfectly fits the needs of game developers. This book will help you learn the basics of Qt and will equip you with the necessary toolsets to build apps and games.
The book begins by how to create an application and prepare a working environment for both desktop and mobile platforms. You will learn how to use built-in Qt widgets and Form Editor to create a GUI application and then learn the basics of creating graphical interfaces and Qt's core concepts.
Further, you'll learn to enrich your games by implementing network connectivity and employing scripting. You will learn about Qt's capabilities for handling strings and files, data storage, and serialization.
Moving on, you will learn about the new Qt Gamepad module and how to add it in your game and then delve into OpenGL and Vulcan, and how it can be used in Qt applications to implement hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics. You will then explore various facets of Qt Quick: how it can be used in games to add game logic, add game physics, and build astonishing UIs for your games.
By the end of this book, you will have developed the skillset to develop interesting games with Qt.

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Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide: Create amazing games with Qt 5, C++, and Qt Quick

Qt is the leading cross-platform toolkit for all significant desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms and is becoming popular by the day, especially on mobile and embedded devices. It's a powerful tool that perfectly fits the needs of game developers. This book will help you learn the basics of Qt and will equip you with the necessary toolsets to build apps and games.
The book begins by how to create an application and prepare a working environment for both desktop and mobile platforms. You will learn how to use built-in Qt widgets and Form Editor to create a GUI application and then learn the basics of creating graphical interfaces and Qt's core concepts.
Further, you'll learn to enrich your games by implementing network connectivity and employing scripting. You will learn about Qt's capabilities for handling strings and files, data storage, and serialization.
Moving on, you will learn about the new Qt Gamepad module and how to add it in your game and then delve into OpenGL and Vulcan, and how it can be used in Qt applications to implement hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics. You will then explore various facets of Qt Quick: how it can be used in games to add game logic, add game physics, and build astonishing UIs for your games.
By the end of this book, you will have developed the skillset to develop interesting games with Qt.

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Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide: Create amazing games with Qt 5, C++, and Qt Quick

Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide: Create amazing games with Qt 5, C++, and Qt Quick

Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide: Create amazing games with Qt 5, C++, and Qt Quick

Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide: Create amazing games with Qt 5, C++, and Qt Quick

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Overview

Qt is the leading cross-platform toolkit for all significant desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms and is becoming popular by the day, especially on mobile and embedded devices. It's a powerful tool that perfectly fits the needs of game developers. This book will help you learn the basics of Qt and will equip you with the necessary toolsets to build apps and games.
The book begins by how to create an application and prepare a working environment for both desktop and mobile platforms. You will learn how to use built-in Qt widgets and Form Editor to create a GUI application and then learn the basics of creating graphical interfaces and Qt's core concepts.
Further, you'll learn to enrich your games by implementing network connectivity and employing scripting. You will learn about Qt's capabilities for handling strings and files, data storage, and serialization.
Moving on, you will learn about the new Qt Gamepad module and how to add it in your game and then delve into OpenGL and Vulcan, and how it can be used in Qt applications to implement hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics. You will then explore various facets of Qt Quick: how it can be used in games to add game logic, add game physics, and build astonishing UIs for your games.
By the end of this book, you will have developed the skillset to develop interesting games with Qt.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781788390651
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication date: 04/30/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 697
File size: 10 MB

About the Author

Pavel Strakhov is a software architect and developer from Russia. He started working with Qt in 2011 in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where it was used to build scientific image processing software. During 2012-2015, he was highly active in the Qt section of StackOverflow, helping people learn Qt and solve issues. In 2016, he started working on Qt bindings for Rust language.

Witold Wysota is a software architect and developer living in Poland. He started his adventure with Qt in 2004 and, since then, it has become his main area of expertise.
He is an active trainer and consultant in Qt, C++, and related technologies in both commercial and academic environments.
In real life, he is a passionate adept of Seven Star Praying Mantis, a traditional style of Chinese martial arts.

Lorenz Haas, a passionate programmer, started his Qt career with Qt 3. He immersed himself in this framework, became one of the first certified Qt developers and specialists, and turned his love for Qt into his profession.
Lorenz is now working as a lead software architect. He mainly develops machine controls and their user interfaces as well as general solutions for the industry sector.
Years ago, he started contributing to Qt Creator and Qt. He added a couple of refactoring options that you probably rely on regularly if you use Qt Creator. He is also the author of the Beautifier plugin.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
  1. Introduction to Qt
  2. Installation
  3. Qt GUI Programming
  4. Custom 2D graphics with Graphics View
  5. Animations in Graphics View
  6. Qt Core Essentials
  7. Networking
  8. Custom Widgets
  9. Using OpenGL in Qt
  10. Scripting
  11. Introduction to Qt Quick
  12. Customization in Qt Quick
  13. Animations in Qt Quick games
  14. Advanced visual effects in Qt Quick
  15. 3D graphics with Qt
  16. Miscellaneous and Advanced Concepts
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