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This is the supplement website for the books:

Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX^® 9.0
Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0c: A Shader Approach

Information about these books, such as table of contents, source code, and errata, can be found by clicking the Book Info and Book II Info links. If you need to download the DirectX 9.0 SDK, you can find it here at http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx. In addition, you can find extra articles, sample source code, and programs by clicking the Resources link. The message forum and chat board are available for readers to communicate with each other, and ask questions. Be sure to check back every so often for updates to this page, as articles and sample programs will be added as time allows. Also, a list of programming and computer graphics related links can be found by clicking the links link.

Contact: (I only check this account a couple times per week.)

Latest News and Updates

Thursday, June 29, 2006

The book is now available. If you enjoyed the book and have an amazon.com account, please post a positive review.

Also, a small sample has been uploaded on rendering to multiple windows with Direct3D using additional swap chains in an MFC SDI application with the CSplitterWnd class. It is available in the resources section.

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Did some minor reorganization to the website, hopefully making it more concise.

Monday, April 17, 2006

Book News: I have an electronic version of the book I am double checking one last time before the book goes to print.

Other News: ZMan from http://www.thezbuffer.com has updated the C# demo ports for the first book. They are available on this page.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

The new book is now available for preorder from the Publisher's site: http://www.wordware.com/computer/coming_soon.shtml. It should be listed on amazon.com soon as well, for probably a better price.

A new demo is also available in the resources section, which uses reflection and refraction maps to do a water simulation. I also have supplement articles on quaternions, and curves and surfaces planned.

Finally, if you enjoyed the book and have an amazon.com account, please post a positive review. Thanks in advance and thanks to all readers that have already submitted a positive review.