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| 'Advanced Lighting and Materials with Shaders' has anyone read it? |
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rick_appleton Member since: 8/29/2002 From: Delft, Netherlands |
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 Posted - 3/17/2005 7:38:56 AM |
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| I was browsing Amazon when I came across this book. It seems interesing, but noone has commented on the book yet here on GameDev. Has anyone got/read it? If so, what did you think of it? |
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paulc Member since: 11/16/2002 From: United Kingdom |
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 Posted - 3/17/2005 11:46:46 AM |
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| I've got it and read probably about 2/5 (and haven't got round to getting back to it yet.) My impression so far was very good, although opinions can vary, YMMV, etc. It starts off with a grounding in light theory, goes over the terminology and physics aspects. It also recommends some further reading that includes material by Richard Feynman which gives a ever so slightly higher opinion of the book. Just slightly though :) . Probably best I stop here, and continue once I've had another look at the book as its been a while since I lasted picked it up, but I definitely found the content to be interesting. It takes you through the implementation of different types of lights, and then continues with material details including BRDF and variations. Which I think was about as far as I got. Its only recently I've had time to get shaders up and running in my framework so I haven't had the impetus to go back and read the rest of the book yet, but I will definitely do so as its the only book I've found so far that seemed to cover this topic in detail and with relevant examples. |
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aboeing Member since: 1/11/2003 From: Perth, Australia |
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Posted - 3/19/2005 1:30:44 AM |
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| Yeah I've only started flicking through it too, but I think its a really good book, covers the basics of pritty much everything (including raytracing, texture generation, radiosity etc), and goes into some of the more advanced stuff too (eg: spherical harmonics). Unlike other books which cover this kind of theoretical material, there are also code snippets and examples all throught it. Diagrams are neat too. Its one of the best all-round-graphics books I've come across, definately recommended if you dont already have any books covering these areas. |
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rick_appleton Member since: 8/29/2002 From: Delft, Netherlands |
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Posted - 3/19/2005 3:01:53 AM |
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| Thank you for the comments. I've ordered it. |
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Khaos Dragon GDNet+ Member since: 12/13/2002 From: Santa Monica, CA, United States |
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Posted - 3/19/2005 11:58:24 AM |
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| Does it use any specific shading languages? |
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paulc Member since: 11/16/2002 From: United Kingdom |
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Posted - 3/19/2005 4:07:28 PM |
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| It uses all 3 different shading languages in variuous places, and has frameworks for all of them (HLSL, Cg and GLSL) on the disk. The most important things is that the book teaches the techniques and theory well enough so that it doesn't matter which language you use, it should be easy to implement it in any of them. The chaper list is: 1) The Physics of Light 2) Modeling Real-World Lights 3) Raytracing and Related Techniques 4) Objects and Materials (how different surfaces reflect light, purely descriptive of the appearance of objects by the way the reflect/absorb/transmit light). 5) Lighting and Reflectance Models (including BRDFs and variations) 6) Implementing Lights in Shaders 7) Implementing BRDFs in Shaders 8) Spherical Harmonic Lighting 9) Spherical Harmonics in DirectX 10) Toward Real-Time Radiosity Appendix A) Building the Source Code Appendix B) Sample Raytracer Implementation Appendix C) The Lighting and Shading Frameworks |
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phantom Moderator Member since: 12/15/2001 |
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 Posted - 3/19/2005 5:22:02 PM |
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damn you! you've just become the cause of more money leaving my bank account  |
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Mezz Member since: 12/12/1999 |
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Posted - 3/19/2005 6:15:52 PM |
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| Yeah I just ordered it too (along with ShaderX3). 9-10 days from Amazon damnit :( -Mezz |
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phantom Moderator Member since: 12/15/2001 |
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Posted - 3/19/2005 6:39:23 PM |
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| yeah, i noticed that, however i already had an order with Game Programing Gems 5 and a couple of DVDs which were due to be delivered around 9-10 days from now as well so i just bundled it in with that, gives me a chance to finish reading one of my other books, heh |
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rick_appleton Member since: 8/29/2002 From: Delft, Netherlands |
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Posted - 3/20/2005 3:37:12 AM |
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| Yes I got ShaderX3 with it as well. |
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