Black Art Of 3D Game Programming With CDROM; Author: Lamothe, Andre; Paperback; CD-Rom (Images / Graphics)

Author: Lamothe, Andre
Paperback; CD-Rom (Images / Graphics)
1174 pages
Published: September 1995
Pearson Professional Education
ISBN: 1571690042
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Written by a master programmer, this book explains in detail what's behind the programming of those complex, mesmerizing video games. LaMothe makes clarity a priority, discussing math, projections, hidden surface removal, lighting, and transformation in an easy-to-understand language, and concludes by showing how to assemble all the pieces of a game into a complete product. 30 screen dumps.This text contains details of creating C programs that use 3-D polygon graphics technology, including sound, graphics and multi-layer capabilities. The CD includes a fully commented, complete 2-D and 3-D graphics library and a library of simple 3-D models and artwork.