Scriptionary Blog » book http://blog.scriptionary.com The informal yet informational sub-site Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:21:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 DirectX 10 Book Recommendation http://blog.scriptionary.com/2009/03/28/directx-10-book-recommendation/ http://blog.scriptionary.com/2009/03/28/directx-10-book-recommendation/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:01:59 +0000 Eddy Luten http://blog.scriptionary.com/?p=157 DirectX 10 BookI don’t often recommend books, especially when it comes to DirectX/Direct3D. There are many monstrosities out there that should never have seen the light of day.

Once per week or so I browse a local Barnes and Noble hoping to catch a book I haven’t seen before. It rarely happens since their inventory is very stagnant, but still. A month or two ago I accidentally browsed the Graphics/Web section and found “Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 10″ by Frank D. Luna.

The title, publisher (Wordware) and cover were kind of off-putting so I almost didn’t buy it. But I’m glad I did since, in my case, it has become my number one DX10 reference. It’s compact, concise, always around my desk and well written so give it a shot if you have 30 bucks or so to spare.

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In other NVIDIA news: two new free book releases are now available on the NVIDIA website, namely: The Cg Tutorial and GPU Gems 2 which are two incredibly useful books. NVIDIA is on a roll, and looking at the manner in which freebies are coming in lately, I’ll be the last one to stop ‘em.

]]> http://blog.scriptionary.com/2008/05/14/nvidia-physx-sdk-plus-more/feed/ 0 NVIDIA Opens Up GPU Gems http://blog.scriptionary.com/2008/04/01/nvidia-opens-up-gpu-gems/ http://blog.scriptionary.com/2008/04/01/nvidia-opens-up-gpu-gems/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:56:10 +0000 Eddy Luten http://blog.scriptionary.com/2008/04/01/nvidia-opens-up-gpu-gems/ GPU Gems CoverNVIDIA has decided to publish the acclaimed GPU Gems book on their website, free of charge. Go to the NVIDIA website to read it. Did I mention it was free? Its free.

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