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 Beginning DirectX 9 (Game Development Series)Welcome to the exciting world of 3D graphics creation with DirectX 9! "Beginning DirectX® 9" is your introductory guide to creating realistic virtual worlds and characters for games. This true beginner?s guide offers easy-to-follow instructions for getting your first DirectX program up and running. Then it?s on to 3D concepts and... | | The Art of Flash Animation: Creative CartooningThere are a number of manuals available on Flash, but too many of them get bogged down in details about ActionScript or interactivity. Frustrated with wading through such information in other Flash manuals, author/illustrator Mark Stephen Smith set out to make the book he wished he had when he started learning Flash. This book is both a practical... | | Digital Lighting & RenderingNew Riders' [digital] series is performing a tremendous service to the computer animation and graphics community. The newest addition to this family is [digital] Lighting & Rendering. Author Jeremy Birn has long been regarded as a talented computer graphics artist and generous writer, and he's been sharing his techniques and... |
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Malicious Cryptography: Exposing CryptovirologyHackers have uncovered the dark side of cryptography—that device developed to defeat Trojan horses, viruses, password theft, and other cyber-crime. It’s called cryptovirology, the art of turning the very methods designed to protect your data into a means of subverting it. In this fascinating, disturbing volume, the experts who first... | | Maya: Secrets of the ProsIn this unique full-color book, a cadre of professionals led by Maya expert and best-selling author, John Kundert-Gibbs, team up to share what they’ve learned using Maya in the CG trenches.
Contributing authors include veterans of such high-profiles projects as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Final Fantasy: The Spirits... | | The Slayer's Guide To DerroThe derro have long been a mysterious race, hiding in darkness, their presence frequently but a whisper. Brought to the fore in this supplement, their culture, habitats, methods of warfare, and more are detailed in full so as to be usable by game masters and players alike.
The dwarven racesarequitediverse,but perhapsthe most deviant,... |
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Linux For Dummies, 7th EditionUse the DVD to sample Linux without installing
Pick a flavor and see what this stable, economical operating system can do!
If you've ever wondered whether the Linux penguin knew something you should know, here's where to find out. This plain-English guide walks you through... | | Developer to Designer: GUI Design for the Busy DeveloperIn a fantasy world, you design and build the core of your application, the parts that do all the heavy lifting. And the graphical user interface? Well, that’s the domain of the hot-shot sitting one cube over, who went to school to learn how to give users sensible and effective control over the functionality you construct.... | | Baseball Hacks : Tips & Tools for Analyzing and Winning with StatisticsBaseball Hacks isn't your typical baseball book--it's a book about how to watch, research, and understand baseball. It's an instruction manual for the free baseball databases. It's a cookbook for baseball research. Every part of this book is designed to teach baseball fans how to do something. In short, it's a... |
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