Cutting-Edge Direct3D Programming: Everything You Need to Create Stunning 3D Applications with Direct3D

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Summary: Great Book. Forget the rest and read this first!
Review: I have been tackling with Direct3D through a couple of books now, first being Awsome Power of DirectX/3D and it was this book (Cutting Edge 3d) that finally made sense of it. The book is well written and pulls the reader through the LOGICAL and COMPLETE steps to creating D3D Retained Mode apps. The previous book mentioned (Awsome Power.. )is terribly written with gaps left in the reader's mind as to the structure of the code. I Finally got it~!! This may or may not be a full 5 star book, but it is definately the best book I've seen on this specific subject, so I gave it the best rating.

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Summary: Be careful of the published date
Review: I was dumb enough to not look at the date published before I bought this book. It was published in *1996*. It is way out of date. Do yourself a favor and find a book that is more current. 4 years old is very old for this topic (true for most computer topics).

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Summary: Be careful of the published date
Review: I was dumb enough to not look at the date published before I bought this book. It was published in *1996*. It is way out of date. Do yourself a favor and find a book that is more current. 4 years old is very old for this topic (true for most computer topics).

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Summary: This book opens the door to state of the art programming!
Review: I'm a final year student of Software Engineering at the University of Westminster, London , England. I have been using this book for my final project, and I can say that is is the best practical introduction to D3D ever! The examples are really good and even work fine in NT4. If you want to get into DirectX or D3D get this book. Honestly.

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Summary: The best introductory Direct3D programming book!
Review: I've purchased and read most of the Direct3D books that are generally available, and this is by far the best. I generally don't write book reviews, but I am very enthusiastic about this book! Cutting-Edge Direct3D Programming is not exhaustive but is a great intro. If you already know how to work with MFC, the MFC OOP approach is by far the easiest way to manage a large Direct3D software project.

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Summary: Ok book, but it only covers retain mode direct3d with.
Review: This is a typical OK book to read if you're a beginner. Minuses-> The author does encapsulate the direct3d objects properly and he doesn't follow the OOP principals. Which makes it almost impossible to reuse any of the code. If your a C programmer and not planning on learning C++ properly...this book is probably ok. For a C++ programmer however the way he programs just breaks way to many OOP principals (irritating to read). The book is still far from being a waste to read and buy for beginners (since there are so few books covering this topic on the market).

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Summary: Good but boring in spots
Review: This is good book for the right person. I don't like the fact that the book uses MFC for everything. The author however does explain things well, but there is too much overhead within Direct3d to make it simple, then MFC kicks in and makes it worse. The examples are all done in a window, and the author doesn't put much information about fullscreen modes, until the end.

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Summary: Good book, but only recover Retained Mode
Review: This is good book, well written and with good examples. If you want to learn about Direct 3D Retained Mode, this is the best book. The poor side is the book doesn't recover Direct 3D Immediate Mode. Only few people are using D3D RM to create professional applications, all are using D3D Immediate Mode. If only i could find book that recover D3D IM like this book.. I would give 5 stars !!

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Summary: Good book, but only recover Retained Mode
Review: This is good book, well written and with good examples. If you want to learn about Direct 3D Retained Mode, this is the best book. The poor side is the book doesn't recover Direct 3D Immediate Mode. Only few people are using D3D RM to create professional applications, all are using D3D Immediate Mode. If only i could find book that recover D3D IM like this book.. I would give 5 stars !!