Programming Dynamic Character Animation (With CD-ROM)

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Summary: Not what the title says
Review: I purchased this book based on the title, which lead me to believe it would be about programming dynamic character animation. In actuality, it's a beginning 3D programming and math book for somewhat experienced programmers. It does have very good coverage of bones and quaternions and the whole book is written to be very accessable with good examples and illustrations. There is nothing, however, on dynamic character animation (dynamic in either sense) which was really disappointing (and misleading.)

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Summary: Not Much On Character Animation
Review: This book is an OK beginners guide to setting up OpenGL and DirectX render wrappers, but there's very little information on character programming. The author looks into very basic skeletal key-frame animation, but doesn't cover any other techniques such as vertex animation or kinematics. I was very disappointed to find numerous typos and blatantly wrong statements. Programmers looking to create better animation code would be better off looking elsewhere.

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Summary: Not Much On Character Animation
Review: This book is an OK beginners guide to setting up OpenGL and DirectX render wrappers, but there's very little information on character programming. The author looks into very basic skeletal key-frame animation, but doesn't cover any other techniques such as vertex animation or kinematics. I was very disappointed to find numerous typos and blatantly wrong statements. Programmers looking to create better animation code would be better off looking elsewhere.

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Summary: Real Value
Review: this Book is simply worth more than its price. David Paul in this book went step by step with me(fom mediam C programmer) till i can design a huge game project. and he supplied tricks and features that might require me to buy another book. This book is complete, covering all the subjects he claims.
even when i had some difficulties in compiling with my (BCB) compiler, David relied to me.
Way to go David

Rating:
Summary: Real Value
Review: this Book is simply worth more than its price. David Paul in this book went step by step with me(fom mediam C programmer) till i can design a huge game project. and he supplied tricks and features that might require me to buy another book. This book is complete, covering all the subjects he claims.
even when i had some difficulties in compiling with my (BCB) compiler, David relied to me.
Way to go David

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Summary: The title is misleading.
Review: This book is too sparsely written to recommend buying at its price. Less than 200 text pages of 6" x 9", the author describes in Ansi C how he has chosen to very basically accomplish what he has done on the CD. I've less than a few years of programming experience, but in my opinion, you are better served by buying a few back issues of a game programming magazine than take a chance on this deceptively packaged book. Nice cover though!

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Summary: exactly what i wanted
Review: This book was exactly at the level that i am at as a programmer. I have been programming for 5 years, and know the basics, but I needed something to bridge the gap so that I could play with hardware accelerated rendering. The rendering engine is very powerful, and flexible. From my experience, most book authors dissapear after the book hits the shelves, but this books autor has provided source code updates, and new models.