Advanced Animation with DirectX
 My thoughts on this book.: Advanced Animation with DirectX is not a good book at all. The author did a terrible job on the skinned animation parts and the later parts of the book is just plain bad. The beginning was ok but the code was not right. I tried [... more]
CDN$62.95
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Introduction to Computer Game Programming with DirectX ...
Total garbage: I have tried to read this book but it's very awful. For little experienced programmer, it gives nothing new. But, for a beginner, it tries to teach some 2D directx graphics by explaining his source code. He made its program from many [... more]
CDN$33.06
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Real-Time 3D Terrain Engines Using C++ and DirectX
waste of money: this book doesn't give you any background or theory on how to create a terrain engine. insted it only shows you code, code and more code! The little theory presented here seems to be the one in DirectX SDK documentation and it only uses [... more]
CDN$52.04
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Strategy Game Programming with DirectX 9
ok: This book is a good start, but just that. No hand holding here of any coding. If you want to design you book on paper first, this book will help you with that, but coding is another story. WARNING! Don't buy this book based upon its title!: To sum [... more]
CDN$104.23
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Beginning DirectX 9
Very nice: This is a very nice introduction to DirectX 9, although it's a little confusing as to why there is also a Beginning Direct3D 9 book also by this publisher, that covers the same material (but written by a different author). The reason I make [... more]
CDN$38.95
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Programming Role Playing Games with DirectX with C
Great book, despite some of these reviews!: It amazes me that people post reviews stating, "Don't buy this book," or "3 stars (but should be less in my opinion)," among many others, because the book doesn't have the quote un-quote & [... more]
CDN$92.95
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Managed DirectX 9 Kick Start: Graphics and Game Programming
CONCISE: CONCISE is one of the two words that come to mind, and naturally, KNOWLEDGEABLE is the other. The only flaw I can find is about some lack of "overview" of the process that may result from the "discovery" approach the author [... more]
CDN$43.99
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.Net Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 with CDROM
Too many errata for this to be an effective teaching book: Like a few others who have posted here I was excited to see this book. How disappointed I was to find that the book was a complete mess. I feel for other budding game programmers like me who have [... more]
CDN$70.00
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Shaderx 2: Introduction & Tutorials with DirectX 9 with ...
Lots of good here: So let's focus on the good. First, it gives a fair intro to HLSL and shader assembly language. That seems hard to come by. Microsoft's documentation, in web-entangled form, is hardly a tutorial. Vendor documentation mostly points to MS [... more]
CDN$78.17
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Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0
The best intro book I've read: I've read many introductory books on DirectX, and this is by far the best. The author does a great job of explaining a lot of concepts both clearly and timely. The book is very easy to read. He has a short section on math, [... more]
CDN$49.95
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Microsoft Directx 9 Graphics Programmers Guide
misunderstood book: This is not a book for learning DirectX. Please read the title and book description before purchasing to understand what you're getting. This is a book specifically about the DX9 PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS PIPELINE. If you're interested in [... more]
CDN$54.99
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Introduction to 3D Game Engine Design Using DirectX 9 and C#
Read the Title Carefully: This book is focused on "Introduction to Game Design" and uses the C# language and DirectX 9 technology to illustrate the samples. This book does not teach C# nor does it provide sufficient DirectX programming concepts. [... more]
CDN$46.87
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