3D Programming Techniques

To give you some ideas about the possibilities provided by SDL, we have included explanations of complex 3D effects that you can create using SDL:

• Creating Rendered Cubic Environment Maps - create your own accurate cubic environment map to fit a scene.
• Creating projectile movement - generate accurate motion for projectiles like cannon balls and roman candles.
• Programming Movement with Constraints - program inverse kinematics.
• An Introduction to Dynamics - create movement that follows the laws of physics.
• Creating Fiery Smoke - generate realistic looking smoke and flame without a lot of geometry.
• Animating a Sunrise - create a naturalistic sunrise (or sunset).
• Creating a Tree - create a complex fir tree without modeling each needle and branch.
• Creating Rendered Stereo Pairs - create accurate stereo pairs of images.