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Suggest me a good book on game development in general and game development using directx. I have seen most of the books on directx that focuss more on sprites. I want a book that can help me in 3d game development and 3d concepts used in games.
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I don't want the book on directx specifically. Actually I want a book that can explain the 3d concepts used in games or a book that explains the problems of 3d game and their solutions. If any book can address these issues using directx that will be great.
maybe you should check out www.gamasutra.com as well as www.gamedev.net - its free and there is so much there.
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Hi,
I bought this book a while back and it seems to be getting quite good press of late. It's one of the new Prima books that has been coming out, which are edited by Andre Lamothe.
Beginning Direct3D Game Programming
by Wolfgang F. Engel, Andre' Lamothe (Editor), Amir Geva
Good thing about this book is that it deals with the latest features of DirectX8(DX8). For a long while there were books claiming to use this version of DirectX but focused on the old API DirectX7.
The reason why I think it's important to get a well written DX8 book though is because this version was a complete re-write of the API.
Anyway, hope this helps you.
I bought this book a while back and it seems to be getting quite good press of late. It's one of the new Prima books that has been coming out, which are edited by Andre Lamothe.
Beginning Direct3D Game Programming
by Wolfgang F. Engel, Andre' Lamothe (Editor), Amir Geva
Good thing about this book is that it deals with the latest features of DirectX8(DX8). For a long while there were books claiming to use this version of DirectX but focused on the old API DirectX7.
The reason why I think it's important to get a well written DX8 book though is because this version was a complete re-write of the API.
Anyway, hope this helps you.
Zawar.