Hi

I am a new guy to game industry and will go to a online-game develop inc as a game developer, in order to promote myself, I have read <Tricks of the windows game programming gurus> & the "dragon book", I do most of all the examples in these books above by myself. so I have got some concept about game programming, directX and graphics theory.
but i encounter a big problem while reading< 3D Games Real-time Rendering and Software Technology>(I have read to chapter 9, the management of visibility of the complex scene) that the content is too [font=Arial]academic to understand and implement. I'm doubting whether i should give up this book and read another one more practical.[/font]
[font=Arial]so i will appreciate much someone can give me some advice.[/font]
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[font=Arial]ps: I prefer 3d game programming and engine programming to others. The company is engaged in the development of online games[/font][font="arial, sans-serif"][size=2].[/font]
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Hi

I am a new guy to game industry and will go to a online-game develop inc as a game developer, in order to promote myself, I have read <Tricks of the windows game programming gurus> & the "dragon book", I do most of all the examples in these books above by myself. so I have got some concept about game programming, directX and graphics theory.
but i encounter a big problem while reading< 3D Games Real-time Rendering and Software Technology>(I have read to chapter 9, the management of visibility of the complex scene) that the content is too [font="Arial"]academic to understand and implement. I'm doubting whether i should give up this book and read another one more practical.[/font]
[font="Arial"]so i will appreciate much someone can give me some advice.[/font]

[font="Arial"]Thanks very much.;-)[/font]

[font="Arial"]ps: I prefer 3d game programming and engine programming to others. The company is engaged in the development of online games[/font][font="arial, sans-serif"].[/font]

I'm not the most experienced games developer and I haven't read any of these books but I find that by making my own games or applications that interest me (my first two were a society simulator-using console and a binary clock-using SDL) I gain more experience and learn far more than I do by looking at examples in a book. Maybe if you come back to that chapter after you have more of a practical knowledge base, it will become clearer.

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Hi

I am a new guy to game industry and will go to a online-game develop inc as a game developer, in order to promote myself, I have read <Tricks of the windows game programming gurus> & the "dragon book", I do most of all the examples in these books above by myself. so I have got some concept about game programming, directX and graphics theory.
but i encounter a big problem while reading< 3D Games Real-time Rendering and Software Technology>(I have read to chapter 9, the management of visibility of the complex scene) that the content is too [font="Arial"]academic to understand and implement. I'm doubting whether i should give up this book and read another one more practical.[/font]
[font="Arial"]so i will appreciate much someone can give me some advice.[/font]

[font="Arial"]Thanks very much.;-)[/font]

[font="Arial"]ps: I prefer 3d game programming and engine programming to others. The company is engaged in the development of online games[/font][font="arial, sans-serif"].[/font]

I'm not the most experienced games developer and I haven't read any of these books but I find that by making my own games or applications that interest me (my first two were a society simulator-using console and a binary clock-using SDL) I gain more experience and learn far more than I do by looking at examples in a book. Maybe if you come back to that chapter after you have more of a practical knowledge base, it will become clearer.


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yeah, what i know are always from the book, and i have not done a actual project. someone advise me to make a deep in STL and take a look at lua ,CEGUI and some game examples opened on net. those are on the way, and i want to gain more techniques on 3d programming so that i can join to the 3d developing team in a short time. I just can't ensure whether it's a good plan.
en,feeling a little puzzle:-(.
thanks any way~~

Knowing more techniques is far inferior to being able to successfully utilise a few techniques. As for joining a development team, you won't be hired unless you have a degree and/or good examples of work you have done as part of a indie group or on your own.

Knowing more techniques is far inferior to being able to successfully utilise a few techniques. As for joining a development team, you won't be hired unless you have a degree and/or good examples of work you have done as part of a indie group or on your own.

there is a proverb in china that if you gain more of the base theory, you can stretch it easily(in chinese :????). I always follow it. If you can't got the word, please excuse my poor english, aha:-(
only two months remained, maybe i should aim at extending my eyes but not got all the theory by reading these book.
alas, less bodies have a interest in the topic- -