Client Programming Guide

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Client Programming Guide
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Overview
- 1.1. Client in context
- 1.2. Outline
- 1.3. Configuration files
Chapter 2. User Input
Chapter 3. Cameras
- 3.1. The Cursor Camera
- 3.2. The Free Camera
- 3.3. The FlexiCam
Chapter 4. Terrain
- 4.1. Advanced Terrain
- 4.2. Classic Terrain
- 4.3. Terrain specular lighting
Chapter 5. Cloud shadows
- 5.1. Requirements
- 5.2. Implementation
- 5.3. Effect File Implementation
- 5.4. Tweaking
Chapter 6. Chunks
- 6.1. Definitions
- 6.2. Implementation files
- 6.3. Details and notes
- 6.4. Loading and ejecting
- 6.5. Focus grid
  - 6.5.1. Hull tree
  - 6.5.2. Quad tree
- 6.6. Collisions
- 6.7. Sway items
Chapter 7. Entities
- 7.1. Entities are Python script objects
- 7.2. Exposing the client
- 7.3. Script entry points
  - 7.3.1. prerequisites()
- 7.4. Entity Manager
Chapter 8. User Data Objects
- 8.1. .1. User Data Objects are Python script objects
- 8.2. .2. Accessing from the Client
Chapter 9. Scripting
- 9.1. Functional components
- 9.2. Personality script
Chapter 10. Models
- 10.1. Performance
- 10.2. Hard Points
- 10.3. SuperModel
  - 10.3.1. Design
  - 10.3.2. SuperModel classes
    - 10.3.2.1. ChunkModel
    - 10.3.2.2. PyModel
Chapter 11. Animation System
- 11.1. Basic keyframed animations
- 11.2. Animation layering and blending
- 11.3. Animation data files
- 11.4. Animation data streaming
- 11.5. Actions
Chapter 12. Server Communications
- 12.1. Login
- 12.2. Online
- 12.3. Firewalls
Chapter 13. Particles
- 13.1. Particle Systems
- 13.2. Particle Actions
- 13.3. Particle types
- 13.4. Attaching particle systems to bones
Chapter 14. Detail Objects
- 14.1. Flora
Chapter 15. Water
- 15.1. Code overview
- 15.2. Scene generation
- 15.3. Render settings
  - 15.3.1. Setting the quality
- 15.4. Simulation
- 15.5. Rain
- 15.6. Water depth
- 15.7. Watchers
Chapter 16. BigWorld Umbra integration
- 16.1. Building BigWorld with Umbra enabled
- 16.2. Integration details
Chapter 17. Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- 17.1. C++ GUI support
- 17.2. Python GUI support
- 17.3. XML
- 17.4. XML and Python
- 17.5. Input events
- 17.6. Mouse cursor
- 17.7. Fonts
  - 17.7.1. Creating new fonts
    - 17.7.1.1. Example font file
Chapter 18. Sounds
- 18.1. Usage overview
- 18.2. Updating the FMOD libraries
Chapter 19. 3D Engine (Moo)
- 19.1. Features
- 19.2. Supported video cards
- 19.3. Hardware requirements for special effects
- 19.4. Visual
- 19.5. EffectMaterial
- 19.6. Visual channels
- 19.7. Textures
- 19.8. Vertex declaration
  - 19.8.1. File format
- 19.9. Graphics settings
  - 19.9.1. Customising options
  - 19.9.2. Using settings
- 19.10. High-resolution screenshots
Chapter 20. Full-screen Filters
- 20.1. Bloom
- 20.2. Heat shimmer
  - 20.2.1. How to use heat shimmer
  - 20.2.2. Tweaking heat shimmer
Chapter 21. Debugging
- 21.1. Build configuration — conditional feature inclusion
- 21.2. Watchers
- 21.3. Memory tracking
- 21.4. Scripts
- 21.5. Script interactive debugging
- 21.6. Client Access Tool (CAT)
- 21.7. Timing
Chapter 22. Releasing The Game
- 22.1. Compile the game executable
- 22.2. Prepare the assets
- 22.3. Zip assets and specify paths
Chapter 23. Simplified Server Usage
- 23.1. Setting up the windows share
- 23.2. Mounting the Windows share on Linux
- 23.3. Caveats

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