Comments on: (Book Review) Practical Rendering and Computation with Direct3D 11

By: Caro

Caro — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:57:48 +0000

I must have.

And this too “Real-Time Shadows” http://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Shadows-Michael-Wimmer/dp/1568814380?tag=realtimerenderin

and this

Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice, Second Edition – OpenGL 4.0 – http://www.amazon.com/Graphics-Shaders-Theory-Practice-Second/dp/1568814348?ie=UTF8&tag=virtua06a-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969

I need some money 🙂

By: JeGX

JeGX — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:49:12 +0000

With this book you will learn how d3d11 works, the authors don’t use their framework (or a bit only).
Like you, I don’t appreciate books that rely on unknown frameworks. I prefer direct API calls and simple C/C++. Hope that helps!

By: dominic

dominic — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:04:25 +0000

Hi,

Does this book cover “raw” D3D11 code or does it use the authors framework ? I want to buy this book, but I want to be sure I’ll be learning about how D3D11 works, as low level as possible, and not learning how to use a framework.

Thanks

By: CoCoKool

CoCoKool — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:25:51 +0000

This book will give you aids

By: cristobal

cristobal — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:30:42 +0000

even when a good opengl 4.x book is missing, there is a good GLSL 4.0 book already, they even explain tesselation.

http://www.amazon.com/OpenGL-4-0-Shading-Language-Cookbook/dp/1849514763/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1314754144&sr=8-13

By: seamonkey

seamonkey — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:42:00 +0000

Bought!

By: Marcello

Marcello — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:48:31 +0000

Good book it seems. But I would have really liked an Opengl 4 book more. There are a bunch of dx11 books around , but even the official books just stop at OpenGL 3 . Reading the specifications isn’t very handy to learn the OGL4 features.

By: Leith

Leith — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:19:01 +0000

Hmm someone needs to make a decent OpenGL 4.2 book.

Also about multithreded rendering: I read somewhere that only NVIDIA supports it, ATI/AMD still serialize all the GPU commands. And neither NVIDIA or ATI/AMD bother to compile the second thread to a command buffer (or display list in GL speak) which is needed to extract maximum speed.

By: msweed4life

msweed4life — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:30:19 +0000

wonderful !

By: Matumbo

Matumbo — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:55:36 +0000

Thanks for your review, I’m definitely buying that book.

By: fmoreira

fmoreira — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:39:36 +0000

” about … euh… Direct3D 1? ” very good! 🙂