Download or read book Advanced 3D Game Programming Using DirectX 8 0 written by Peter Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced 3D Game Programming with DirectX 10 0 written by Peter Walsh and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced 3D Game Programming with DirectX 10.0 provides a guide to developing cutting-edge games using DirectX 10.0. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.
Download or read book Advanced 3D Game Programming with DirectX 10 0 written by Peter Walsh and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced 3D Game Programming with DirectX 10.0 provides a guide to developing cutting-edge games using DirectX 10.0. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.
Download or read book Advanced 3 D Game Programming Using DirectX 8 0 written by Peter Walsh and published by Wordware Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume targets experienced game programmers and those interested in game programming. Detailed coverage is given to the substantial implementation changes in DirectX.
Download or read book ADVANCED 3D GAME PROGRAMMING USING DIRECTX 8 X CD ROM 1 written by PETER WALSH and published by . This book was released on 2002-05-06 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Visual Effects with Direct 3d written by Peter Walsh and published by Course Technology. This book was released on 2006 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to take your game development skills to the cutting edge? Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D takes you on an incredible journey through the world of advanced game development. Learn the hottest topics and newest techniques to make your games a step above the rest. Using the Direct3D programming language, Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D combines production-quality and fully optimized code with simple language so that you can quickly and easily expand your game development knowledge without being bogged down in confusing jargon or game development basics. This book covers the high-level skills that you are required to know in the competitive game development industry. You will learn everything from how to implement HLSL shaders into an engine to how to write an advanced particle system, how to use volumetric shadowing, and how to develop advanced vertex skinned animations - and everything in between! A sample application at the end of this book shows you the incredible results that come from combining these advanced level game development skills and techniques. Are you ready to be unstoppable?
Download or read book Advanced 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9 written by Peter Walsh and published by Wordware Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Targets experienced computer game programmers as well as those interested in computer game development.
Download or read book Introduction to Computer Game Programming with DirectX 8 0 written by Ian Parberry and published by Wordware Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides would-be computer game programmers with the foundations of game programming using Microsoft Direct X 8.0 software, the leading development environment of computer games.
Download or read book Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 12 written by Frank Luna and published by Mercury Learning and Information. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated bestseller provides an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development using DirectX 12. The book is divided into three main parts: basic mathematical tools, fundamental tasks in Direct3D, and techniques and special effects. It shows how to use new Direct12 features such as command lists, pipeline state objects, descriptor heaps and tables, and explicit resource management to reduce CPU overhead and increase scalability across multiple CPU cores. The book covers modern special effects and techniques such as hardware tessellation, writing compute shaders, ambient occlusion, reflections, normal and displacement mapping, shadow rendering, and character animation. Includes a companion DVD with code and figures. eBook Customers: Companion files are available for downloading with order number/proof of purchase by writing to the publisher at [email protected]. FEATURES: • Provides an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development using DirectX 12 • Uses new Direct3D 12 features to reduce CPU overhead and take advantage of multiple CPU cores • Contains detailed explanations of popular real-time game effects • Includes a DVD with source code and all the images (including 4-color) from the book • Learn advance rendering techniques such as ambient occlusion, real-time reflections, normal and displacement mapping, shadow rendering, programming the geometry shader, and character animation • Covers a mathematics review and 3D rendering fundamentals such as lighting, texturing, blending and stenciling • Use the end-of-chapter exercises to test understanding and provide experience with DirectX 12
Download or read book Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9 0c written by Frank Luna and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0c: A Shader Approach presents an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development, using real-time shaders with DirectX 9.0. The book is divided into three parts that explain basic mathematical and 3D concepts, show how to describe 3D worlds and implement fundamental 3D rendering techniques, and demonstrate the application of Direct3D to create a variety of special effects. With this book understand basic mathematical tools used in video game creation such as vectors, matrices, and transformations; discover how to describe and draw interactive 3D scenes using Direct3D and the D3DX library; learn how to implement lighting, texture mapping, alpha blending, and stenciling using shaders and the high-level shading language (HLSL); explore a variety of techniques for creating special effects, including vertex blending, character animation, terrain rendering, multi-texturing, particle systems, reflections, shadows, and normal mapping;f ind out how to work with meshes, load and render .X files, program terrain/camera collision detection, and implement 3D object picking; review key ideas, gain programming experience, and explore new topics with the end-of-chapter exercises.
Download or read book Advanced 3 D Game Programming Using DirectX 7 0 written by Adrian Perez and published by Wordware Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest addition to the Wordware Game Developer's Library describes how to create computer games with cutting-edge 3-D algorithms and effects. "Advanced 3-D Game Programming Using DirectX 7.0" is intended specifically for those who know how to program with C++ but have not yet explored game or graphics programming. The authors include coverage of artificial intelligence, client-server networking using UDP, multi-texture effects, multi-resolution surface techniques, alpha blending, and more. Along with several sample applications that target specific algorithms, full source code is provided for a client-server networked 3-D first-person game that demonstrates many of the techniques discussed in the book, while giving the reader the opportunity to make their own additions. The CD includes: Full source code in C++, including a complete game demonstrating techniques covered in the bookMicrosoft's DirectX 7a SDKSource code to other 3-D engines, including Quake, GL Quake, Quakeworld, Descent 1, Descent 2, Golgotha, and Crystal SpaceSelect articles on advanced gaming topics contributed by members of the graphics and game programming industryPaint Shop Pro evaluation edition for making texturesAdrian Perez, also known as [Cuban] in the computer game industry, has worked on the Direct3D team at Microsoft and in the graphics department at Lucent. He is a computer science major at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and a contributor to Game Developer magazine. Dan Royer is a developer at 3D Ion, a 3-D graphics company in Israel, and a contributor to flipcode.com, an online game programming news site.
Download or read book Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9 0c A Shader Approach written by Frank Luna and published by Wordware Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0c: A Shader Approach presents an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development, using real-time shaders with DirectX 9.0. The book is divided into three parts that explain basic mathematical and 3D concepts, show how to describe 3D worlds and implement fundamental 3D rendering techniques, and demonstrate the application of Direct3D to create a variety of special effects. With this book understand basic mathematical tools used in video game creation such as vectors, matrices, and transformations; discover how to describe and draw interactive 3D scenes using Direct3D and the D3DX library; learn how to implement lighting, texture mapping, alpha blending, and stenciling using shaders and the high-level shading language (HLSL); explore a variety of techniques for creating special effects, including vertex blending, character animation, terrain rendering, multi-texturing, particle systems, reflections, shadows, and normal mapping;f ind out how to work with meshes, load and render .X files, program terrain/camera collision detection, and implement 3D object picking; review key ideas, gain programming experience, and explore new topics with the end-of-chapter exercises.
Download or read book Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 11 written by Frank Luna and published by Mercury Learning and Information. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 1029 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated bestseller provides an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development using DirectX 11. The book is divided into three main parts: basic mathematical tools, fundamental tasks in Direct3D, and techniques and special effects. It includes new Direct3D 11 features such as hardware tessellation, the compute shader, dynamic shader linkage and covers advanced rendering techniques such as screen-space ambient occlusion, level-of-detail handling, cascading shadow maps, volume rendering, and character animation. Includes a companion CD-ROM with code and figures. eBook Customers: Companion files are available for downloading with order number/proof of purchase by writing to the publisher at [email protected].
Download or read book Administrator s Guide to Sybase ASE 15 written by Jeffrey Garbus and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Administrator's Guide to Sybase ASE 15 is a practical systems administration guide for the newest release of the ASE product. Designed to provide all administrators with an authoritative guide, topics include installation, defining physical and Sybase-mirrored devices, transaction logging and modes, security, auditing, database backup and restoration, troubleshooting, maintenance, and more. After reading this book, you should be able to perform any task that encompasses the creation or maintenance of a server. With this book any administrator will understand the responsibilities of a system administrator; find out how to set limits on server resources using the Resource Governor; learn how to prioritize tasks with the Logical Process Manager; use data partitioning to enable finer control over data placement, maintenance, and management.
Download or read book Essential Lightwave V9 written by Steve Warner and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer Graphics & Graphics Applications
Download or read book The 8th International Conference on Robotic Vision Signal Processing Power Applications written by Harsa Amylia Mat Sakim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceeding is a collection of research papers presented, at the 8th International Conference on Robotics, Vision, Signal Processing and Power Applications (ROVISP 2013), by researchers, scientists, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all around the globe. The topics of interest are as follows but are not limited to: • Robotics, Control, Mechatronics and Automation • Vision, Image, and Signal Processing • Artificial Intelligence and Computer Applications • Electronic Design and Applications • Telecommunication Systems and Applications • Power System and Industrial Applications
Download or read book Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 10 written by Frank D. Luna and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduction to 3D Game Programming with Direct X 10 provides an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development, using DirectX 10. The book is divided into three main parts. Part I explores basic mathematical tools, Part II shows how to implement fundamental tasks in Direct3D, and Part III demonstrates a variety of techniques and special effects."--BOOK JACKET.
