You're reading from Going the Distance with Babylon.js Building extensible, maintainable, and attractive browser-based interactive applications using JavaScript

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801076586

Length 426 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Babylon.js

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Josh Elster

Preface

1. Part 1: Building the Application

2. Chapter 1: The Space-Truckers Operation Manual FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Ramping up on Babylon.js

4. Chapter 3: Establishing the Development Workflow

5. Chapter 4: Creating the Application

6. Chapter 5: Adding a Cut Scene and Handling Input

7. Part 2: Constructing the Game

8. Chapter 6: Implementing the Game Mechanics

9. Chapter 7: Processing Route Data

10. Chapter 8: Building the Driving Game

11. Chapter 9: Calculating and Displaying Scoring Results

12. Chapter 10: Improving the Environment with Lighting and Materials

13. Part 3: Going the Distance

14. Chapter 11: Scratching the Surface of Shaders

15. Chapter 12: Measuring and Optimizing Performance

16. Chapter 13: Converting the Application to a PWA

17. Chapter 14: Extended Topics, Extended

18. Index

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Extended Topics

Use an SW to do something other than fetch and cache data. Take your framerates to the ultimate by moving the Space-Trucker rendering into an offscreen canvas. Essentially, you’ll use SW to do the actual rendering work on a different execution thread from the single main thread JavaScript is normally stuck with. The Babylon.js docs go into more detail on this at https://doc.babylonjs.com/divingDeeper/scene/offscreenCanvas.
Add a button or key combination that clears all existing scores from the database. This is a two-part feature: the first task would be to add the ability to remove or clear the scores in SpaceTruckerDb and the second to provide a way for that to be invoked.
Animate the entrance of each individual score in the list. Bonus points for effects that change with the rank of the score. Even more bonus points for giving players a nice fireworks display when they get a top score.
Split the entry JavaScript module so that the landing...