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Summary: A complete joke
Review: Do not buy this book, not even if you are a newcomer to DirectX. The topics that covers DirectX starts from page 213 and ends on page 254. The rest of this "i wrote this just to make money" book covers 3d programs, music editors and a 3rd party 3d engine. Read the DirectX SDK instead, it offers much more info than this book.
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Summary: Good Game Development
Review: I normally don't spend time rating books. Getting time to read them is enough of a problem! After reading this over, I decided to list its strong and weak points:Strong:
1) It's a good overall guide to game development
2) Covers a good range of software
3) Uses DirectX 8
4) Good explanations and you build several programs including a half-life model viewer and 3D shooter Weak:
1) Wish there was more information included on modeling
2) That's it. Hoping to see what future versions of this book will hold.
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Summary: Good Game Development
Review: I normally don't spend time rating books. Getting time to read them is enough of a problem! After reading this over, I decided to list its strong and weak points: Strong:
1) It's a good overall guide to game development
2) Covers a good range of software
3) Uses DirectX 8
4) Good explanations and you build several programs including a half-life model viewer and 3D shooter Weak:
1) Wish there was more information included on modeling
2) That's it. Hoping to see what future versions of this book will hold.
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Summary: Not perfect, but good.
Review: Pre-ordered this book after reading editorial but was a waste of money. 1. I'm half way through the book and not 1 like of DX code yet 2. Majority of book is screen shots - I counted over 50 pages of screen shots showing the setup wizard for the various tools! 3. Up to page 220 is simple tutorials for using the shareware tools: much better tutorials supplied in online help for the tools themselves. 4. Another load of pages dedicated to showing up how to put together a VB Form. Don't buy it without previewing some of the content first.
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Summary: Game Programming it is not...
Review: Pre-ordered this book after reading editorial but was a waste of money. 1. I'm half way through the book and not 1 like of DX code yet 2. Majority of book is screen shots - I counted over 50 pages of screen shots showing the setup wizard for the various tools! 3. Up to page 220 is simple tutorials for using the shareware tools: much better tutorials supplied in online help for the tools themselves. 4. Another load of pages dedicated to showing up how to put together a VB Form. Don't buy it without previewing some of the content first.
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Summary: Good Variety
Review: The first half of this book deals mainly with the software that comes with it. It is a great basis for creating graphics, models, sound, and music for anything you might need them for, although it focuses on games. The second have shines some light on some 2D/3D theory and exemplifies this through source-code included on the CD. I give it 5 stars for thoroughness, clearnesss, conciseness, and diversity.
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Summary: WARNING: NOT A PROGRAMMING BOOK
Review: The title of this book is kinda NOT true. This book has very little information about direct-x. BUT this does not make this a bad book. If you want to learn to make games with VB this might be the book for you. The book explains about 3d programs, music programs. It also has the builders own 3d lib and stuff. That is why I gave it three stars. Now for a book that really teaches VB-coders to work with Dirext-X.
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Summary: Good Introductory Book About Many Topics
Review: This is a good introductory book about many topics. Not sure why so many people are taking such a "hard-nosed" stand on their reviews. While I agree that it could have covered more in the area of programming, if you read through the description of the book, you'll plainly see that there are multiple ideas covered in the book. If they do another one of these, I'd say keep the wide range of topics but add a little more to the programming section. Overall, it's a very useful book especially to those that are learning about everything that is going on in the area of game programming.
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Summary: Hope VB.NET Book Is This Good
Review: This is the second Crooks (sorry, that's his name) book that I've gotten. Also purchased a VB book and I see from the description that he is doing a VB.NET book. Looking forward to seeing it.
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Summary: Not perfect, but good.
Review: While there is a little less programming than I would have liked, the book is pretty good overall. It teaches a great deal about other things such as modelling and graphics. Maybe a different title would be fitting for 2nd edition.
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