Oh No
June 30th 2007 12:59
Most of what I'm basing my games programming on uses the concepts I learned from Frank Luna's excellent book 'Introduction to 3D Game Programming With DirectX 9.0' published during 2003. I have nothing but praise for the book, it's amazing on all fronts (though the title is misleading, it's just rendering, no games are actually programmed).
However, my problems with my work is that it had things not included in the book, no information on animations, no information on advanced texturing, nothing to do with 2D stuff, all that seemed to be the next level, not for an introduction book.
Nothing up until now has made me more frustrated than what has not been mentioned in that book, tutorials and sample source codes all over the internet simply weren't cutting it. To that end I'd often struggle with the simplest things, took me ages to get animations working (for instance).
But hey what the hey, guess what? Looks like Mr. Luna had a second edition published, 2006, yeah, about the same YEAR I bought the first edition. What really irks me is that it has chapters on animations and 2D sprites. Bleh.
In conclusion: WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF A SECOND EDITION? Oh right, I didn't ask.
Damn of damn.
Now excuse me as I rework my animation, texturing and non-existant sprite system as I read the *new* book.
However, my problems with my work is that it had things not included in the book, no information on animations, no information on advanced texturing, nothing to do with 2D stuff, all that seemed to be the next level, not for an introduction book.
But hey what the hey, guess what? Looks like Mr. Luna had a second edition published, 2006, yeah, about the same YEAR I bought the first edition. What really irks me is that it has chapters on animations and 2D sprites. Bleh.
In conclusion: WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF A SECOND EDITION? Oh right, I didn't ask.
Damn of damn.
Now excuse me as I rework my animation, texturing and non-existant sprite system as I read the *new* book.
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