Sean: Thanks, I'll check out the demos. I'm sure that at least a few of them will fit in.

AP: Yes, the demos will be in C++. Basic STL is fine. My main goal is to have the demo code be easily understandable.

As for the detail level... with a book this size covering this many topics, you obviously can't go into excruciating detail. What I've tried to do in my own writing is provide just enough theory for the reader to have a decent understanding of how things really work, and have the main focus be on practice and application, without focusing on too much on one particular implementation. So, for example, with particle systems, I'd probably discuss what problems they are meant to solve, what attributes they might have, etc., and then discuss some different design choices for implementing them, accompanied by a simple implementation that can be extended by the reader.

Btw, I'll post an update later about which topics have been spoken for.

Dave, I assume you got my email re:glsl section... just checking it didnt get eatten [grin]

Yeah, sorry, I still need to respond to everyone who has emailed me, but to be brief: you're pretty much spot on with what I'm looking for in that chapter. I'll send a more detailed response later, but I'm late picking up my daughter [grin]

heh, fair play [grin]

some good ideas there Prozak, the MT stuff definately, however kinda out of the scope of this book I feel [smile]

Prozak: I agree as well, but _the_phantom_ is right, both are outside the scope of this book.

Anyway, I just updated the ToC. Most topics have at least one tentative author at this point, but there are still a few topics that need to be covered:

1.6 - Disabling VSync (I'll probably just write about this)
1.7 – Framebuffer Objects (will probably be included in the render-to-texture section anyway - either way I can write about it as well)
3.0 - ARB_vertex_program and ARB_fragment_program
5.7 - Dynamic Light Mapping
5.8 - Detail Maps
6.8 - HDR lighting
6.9 – Explosions
7.1 – Skies
7.1.1 – Skyboxes
7.1.2 – Skyplanes
7.1.3 – Skydomes
7.1.4 – Dynamic methods
7.3 - Clouds

Originally, the skies topic was marked as taken because I have an article that I wrote for another book a couple of years ago that I was going to update, but the article was pretty basic (focusing on static skyboxes), and I think there are people here who are capable of writing about much more exciting techniques (perhaps I could include my stuff as an intro to the basics and someone else could add more on dynamic methods)

In regards to the additional chapter ideas, at this point, it looks like we'll definitely be including a chapter scene management/visibility determination, etc. Someone has offered to write an OpenAL chapter, but I'm beginning to feel that it's a little off topic for the book.

Quote:Original post by Myopic Rhino
Someone has offered to write an OpenAL chapter, but I'm beginning to feel that it's a little off topic for the book.

Darn! [wink] I think your right Dave, this book would be better just for the OpenGL specifics in relation to Game Programming. I mean it's not about making games with OpenGL, otherwise there would need to be info on the other components such as input, file i/o, etc...