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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

Create dynamic 3D content for the iPhoneTake your design skills for the iPhoner and iPod touchr to new levels. Whether you're an iPhone application developer or a creative artist, this innovative guide shows you how to combine the best of both worlds using Blender, the SIO2 game engine, and the iPhone SDK. You'll create 3D animated characters, game environments, and physical collisions in a series of self-contained tutorials that you can move through at your own pace.Examine Blender's WYSIWYG approach; find helpful information on Xcoder and oth... MOREer iPhone SDK programming tools; learn physics simulation; and acquire the skills you need to create compelling, interactive, 3D apps and games.Explore 3D development for the iPhone and how to use the iPhone SDKMake your Blender designs interactive using the SIO2 game engineDiscover how to light moving objects realisticallyModel ground and sky with SIO2 and immerse your players in a 3D worldMaster billboarding, a practical way to use 2D images in 3D environmentsCreate invisible, low-poly collision maps to guide or control your character's movementAccess Bullet, Blender's physics simulation library, for advanced functionalityAnimate characters in Blender-and add buttons, icons, and more with widgetsFind complete code for all templates used in the bookCreate multi-touch interactive apps with 3D objects, textures, and real-time lightingRig and animate 3D characters for your iPhone appsProduce rich, immersive 3D environments with realistic physics for users to navigate

Learn to create 3D animated characters, game environments, and particle collisions to include inside your own game on the iPhone and iPod Touch using the open-source Blender and SIO2 game engine. 3D for iPhone Apps with Blender and SIO2 takes a narrow but deep approach for Mac users to carry out the tutorials on their own and create 3D content using the iPhone SDK.Whether you're an iPhone application developer wanting to create 3D content, or a Blender artist wanting to create a 3D game on the iPhone, this book is for you. It focuses on conveying just enough background information on Xcode and other iPhone SDK-specific material, and introduces the necessary concepts as they are needed to complete tutorials creating 3D interactive content. The book is the perfect bridge to iPhone development for people who are mainly interested in 3D.This book offers a pipeline for creating 3D assets for the iPhone and iPod Touch in a WYSIWYG manner using Blender, which can significantly simplify the creation of 3D interactive content. Use of Blender's physics simulation library, Bullet, is also enabled by this pipeline, giving users relatively easy access to advanced physics and collision functionality.

Create exciting, interactive 3D apps for the iPhone and iPod TouchWhat a combination-using free, open-source Blender software and the SI02 game engine to create very cool 3D characters and games for the very hot devices of the moment, the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Foreword
Introduction
Getting Started with 3D Development for the iPhone
Getting Started
Getting the Software
Setting Up Your Development Environment
Introducing Graphics Programming in SIO2
The SIO2 Template
A Simple OpenGL Demo
Introduction to Interactivity
The Complete Co... MOREde
Saying Hello to the Blender/SIO2/iPhone World
The Blender/SIO2/Xcode Workflow
An Overview of SIO2
Hello 3D World! Creating Your World in Blender
Exporting to the SIO2 File Format
Going Mobile with SIO2
Initializing SIO2 and Loading Assets
Rendering
Touch Screen Interaction
The Complete Code
Extending Interactive Feedback with Picking and Text
Object Picking
Working with Text and Fonts
Using Multi-touch Functionality
Packaging Your App
The Complete Code
Creating an Immersive Environment in SIO2
Modeling the Ground and the Sky
Creating an Immersive Environment in SIO2
Exploring the Environment with a Moving Camera
The Complete Code
Props and Physical Objects
Texture Face Objects and Transparency
Fast Foliage with Billboards
Physics for Interactive Objects
Pseudo-instancing for Efficient Object Handling
Working with Low-Poly Collision Maps
The Complete Code
Animating a Character
Animating a Character in Blender
Getting Action in SIO2
Taking a Walk
Quick and Dirty Real-Time Shadows
The Complete Code
Working with Widgets
Making a Splash with Widgets
Creating Active Widgets in SIO2
The Complete Code
Blender Basics
Interface and Navigation
Modeling
Materials and Textures
Animation 250
Key Concepts for Graphics Programming
Coordinate Systems, Matrices, and Transformations
Transformations by Matrix Multiplication
Matrices and OpenGL
SIO2 Reference
SIO2 Learning Resources
The .sio2 File Format
SIO2 Flag Values
SIO2 Functions
Index
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Tony Mullen is a 3D artist and programmer residing in Tokyo, where he lectures in computer science at Tsuda College. He has written numerous magazine articles on Blender and graphics programming on the Mac for the Japanese magazine MacPeople. He is also the author or coauthor of several Blender-related books, including Introducing Character Animation with Blender; Bounce, Tumble, and Splash!: Simulating the Physical World with Blender 3D; and Mastering Blender, all from Sybex.

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