Title: Waste of money
Product review: I unfortunately had already ordered this book by the time I saw the first review.The book is actually worse IMO than the SDK docs (and thanks for including 500 pages of docs that come FREE in the DXSDK!).There are several errors in the book as well. Here are just a few:p.91 "vertex normal" in table says it is TANGENT to surface at vertex.p.92 "The Geometry Pipeline" diagram: the view xform is missing.p.111 Fig.6.1 diagram of view matrix params shows "right" vector pointing leftp.131 EndScene() is shon as a static fn. call, whereas BeginScene() is a normal member call.Most of the 3D diagrams were completely useless--they looked like a beginner user of MSWORD drew them up.---This book could have been much better. It could have left out the reference pages, explained D3DUtil, etc.The CD I got was even corrupted! One of the .cpp files was garbage.
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