quote:I waited a very long time for this book to come out and I''m VERY dissapointed in it''s content. First off, the first 400 pages of this book have NOTHING to do with Direct3D. What do we get? - YET AGAIN another book that discusses in detail the differences between C vs C++ (come on!!), basic Windows programming, SPRITE concepts, very basic 3D math, etc. The next 100+ pages covers 2D sprite engines / animations. The last 100 pages is a useless reference of Direct3D interfaces that you can get from the Direct3D docs. ALL OF THIS STUFF has been covered MUCH BETTER in other books. How often can the same book be written?

The actual Direct3D stuff is beyond basic. There is no detailed discussion of multi-textures, bump mapping, etc. Most importantly, however, and the BIGGEST OMMISSION IN ALL BOOK OF THIS KIND(!!) is the fact that it does not implement a simple 3D shooter type game whatsoever. What it gives you is a few libraries for making cubes and spheres (wow...how useful). And there is no discussion of LOADING and USING any actual 3D ANIMATED models. Forget about things like collision detection and scene management.

PLEASE!! Someone write a book that actually implements (and, just as important, discusses the implementation in detail) a very simple 3D shooter game - complete with .X file animated model loading, advanced multi-texturing, collission detection, scene management, etc!! There have been totally terrible books like this that don''t even allude to these things, and also books that discuss these items THEORECTICALLY. But PLEASE someone write one that actually shows HOW.....LaMothe, please move your books in this direction and STOP writing the same book over and over.....This is the last book I''ll ever buy from PrimaTech otherwise.