After meeting so many readers of the original book on the forum that supports
this book (www.3D-For-Games.com/forum), as well as a lot of them in person,
we came to the decision that a bit of an update to 3ds Max Modeling for Games
was in order. Not only had the software moved on but so had the expectations
from employers looking to...
The Unity Game Engine has been shaking things up. The engine is only a little
over five years old now and in 2010 they have earned Develop Magazine's
Grand Prix Award and surpassed 170,000 developers. The user base of
consuming Unity products has grown dynamically as well. There are over
30 million total Unity Web Player...
Your first look at the easy-to-use tools for building your own data-driven website
Get a running start with Microsoft WebMatrix—the free, downloadable web development solution featuring all the tools you need for server-side programming. This practical book introduces the templates, helper libraries, and...
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are computer systems for storing, displaying and analyzing spatial data. The past twenty years have seen a rapid growth in their use in government, commerce and academia, and they can be used for managing a network of utilities, from handling census data through to planning the location of a new...
You say you want a revolution? Well, sometimes the smallest things can create the
biggest changes. OpenGL ES originated that way—in a modest 3Dlabs project in
2001 that sought to define a standardized subset of OpenGL for a range of embedded
systems. It soon became clear that there was a widespread industry desire for a small...
Advanced Crime Scene Photography developed over time and out of my
experiences as a crime scene investigator with a large metropolitan police
department. Like any major city, violent crime is prevalent, offering numerous
opportunities to utilize the different skills and techniques learned and
evolved through numerous schools, scene...
After over fifteen years of research and trial and error,
micromap designs have evolved to the point where they
are slowly finding their way into mainstream statistical
visualizations. Now seems to be a good time to pull
all of the work together into a book in order to introduce
micromaps to a wide range of people interested in...
Milwaukee -not New York, Chicago or Los Angeles-
was the scene of a number of television firsts: Here the very first application for a commercial TV license was filed with the FCC in 1938. The first female program director and news director in a major
market were both at Milwaukee stations. Milwaukee was a major battleground in the VHF...
Pharmacists or their pharmaceutical equivalents have
been responsible for compounding medicines for cen
turies. Recently this role has been challenged in the
pharmaceutical literature with suggestions and recom
mendations that it is inappropriate for the pharmaceu
tical practitioner to compound medicines in a local
pharmacy...
This training kit is designed for IT professionals who support or plan to support Microsoft
Active Directory (AD) on Windows Server 2008 R2 and who also plan to take the Microsoft
Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) 70-640 examination. It is assumed that you have
a solid foundation-level understanding of Microsoft Windows...
The Foundry’s Nuke is fast becoming the industry leader in compositing software for
film and TV. Virtually all the leading visual effects studios—ILM, Digital Domain, Weta
Digital, MPC, Framestore, The Mill, and Sony Pictures Imageworks—now use Nuke
as their main compositing tool. This is not surprising, as Nuke offers...
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an exceptional programming language and
environment. The language has grown out of a need to have a programming language that
would allow more business-focused individuals to write programs, but equally support the
programming features that developers look for in a product. The...