Real Time Rendering Tricks and Techniques in DirectX by Kelly Dempski
Published April 2002
List Price: $59.99, Your Amazon.com Price: $40.79
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Amazon Sales Rank: 219,646
Excellent book - starting to get a bit dated (DirectX 8), but easily transportable to DX 9... very well laid out and in logical order and covers most of everything you need.
Great book for learning about vertex- and pixelshaders. Everything is well explained and the source code is easy to follow. You don´t have to read every chapter in order, instead you can use it almost like a reference book. It only gets 8/10 because the usual "how to open up a window in windows" takes up a large part of the book. Why have Premier Press decided to use these chapters (or very similar) in EVERY book they release? The rest of the book is great (the first chapters are great too i guess, if you don´t own any of the other books in the series...)
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