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#1

Dear All,

I’ve been working on a book tentatively called:
Java Programming Techniques
for 2D, 2.5D, 3D, and Network Games
I’ve just placed the 10 chapters on Java 3D (including source code) online at:

http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/

Please download it, try it. I’d like comments.

Thanks,
Andrew

#2

No need to cross-post, Andrew.
Thanks for the info.

Cas :slight_smile:

#3

I read about half of the first part and it is quite interesting :slight_smile: I am sure to read more when I have some time.

#4

Hi Andrew,

thanks for the contribution.

I enjoyed the content and thought it was succint, informative, comprehensive and clear.

I havent been involved in real 3D coding for a few years, so I really found your discussion useful and
and relevant. Its quite difficult to summarise so much disparate information into a clear format, as your text
achieves!

Perhaps the only real critiscm ( which all due respect) is:

  • I found the some of the reference dates should be
    more recent if you plan to release the book next year
  • the content read more like a thesis than a book
  • some diagrams incomplete
    … all of which is standard for a draft.

I havent had a chance to look at or test the code. But again I thought your subject matter well structured
( leading from simple scene graph to 3D FPS ) and the topics well chosen ( as they were compelling, well explained and really provided broad and complete
potential of java3D).

good luck with the rest of the book!

Larry

#5

Larry,

Thanks for the comments, especially the negative ones ;).

If you could spare the time, I’d very much appreciate
more details about the reference dates and
incomplete pics. My e-mail address is
dandrew@ratree.psu.ac.th

I’m an academic by trade, so writing in thesis-mode
is pretty much second nature. But the intro material
will undergo “hip-ification” (within my limited abilities)
as it’s moved into chapters 1 and 8.

  • Andrew
#6

Hi Andrew,

I’ll try read through your paper again and note down the specifics. Off the top of my head, I just thought that having reference dates for 2003 would be more appropiate if you plan to release the book in 2004.

What I also liked about your material was the comprehensive referencing you did have.

The only book Ive read on Java/Gaming was “Black art of Java Game programming”. I thoght it was very well done. There hasnt been a book covering a wide range of graphics/gaming topics for Java since then ( at least from what Ive seen). Thats probably 1 of the most important and enriching attributes of your proposed book.

Larry