3D Game Engine Design : With CD Rom -

"Virtually all the books on building 3D game engines cover the basics: here's a polygon, here's a transformation matrix, here's a perspective projection, and so on. The problem is that you can't make a professional quality game with just the basics. This leaves a large gap between you and your goal of creating a great game engine. With this book, Dave is launching a huge boulder into the gap, helping you scamper to your destination." Eric Yiskis, Lead Programmer, Oddworld Inhabitants 3D Game Engine Design is the first book to go beyond basic descriptions of algorithms and accurately demonstrate the complex engineering process required to design and build a real-time graphics engine to support physical realism. Faster algorithms will always win out over faster processors and assembly-language optimization techniques. Implementing those algorithms, however, can be a challenge for even experienced programmers. This book provides rigorous explanations and derivations of all the essential concepts and techniques. Ideas are revealed step by step with numerous code examples and illustrations. Source code implementations are included on the companion CD-ROM to help you understand the full progression from idea, to algorithm, to working code. Since algorithms are not used in isolation, the source code for a complete engine is provided to bring crucial context to the implementations. This book and CD-ROM offer the most comprehensive professional reference available for the development of 3D game engines. Features: * Designed for professionals working in game development, simulation, scientific visualization, or virtual worlds * Written by a respected game engineer and designer of a leading commercial game engine * Thoroughly describes the algorithms-fully implemented in working code-that are the key to writing the fastest, most efficient code possible * Provides source code for Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Linux/Unix, and Macintosh platforms. About the software: Includes a CD-ROM with C++ source code implementations of all the algorithms covered in the text as well as source code for a complete game engine. Updates for the engine, new ports (such as for the Macintosh), FAQs, and additional material on real-time graphics can be found at Geometric Tools website http://www.geometrictools.com. The renderer layer of the engine is abstract and can work with whichever API is desired. An OpenGL-based renderer, DirectX8 (Direct3D), and a GLUT-based hardware renderer for either Windows or Linux are included.David Eberly - is the author of '3D Game Engine Design : With CD Rom -' with ISBN 9781558605930 and ISBN 1558605932.