What goes around, comes around
by Ken Finney · 09/26/2006 (7:04 pm) · 26 comments
3D Game Programming All in One, Second Edition (3D2E) was finally put to bed today. It should be on the shelves in November. The CD has gone for printing, the book is rattling through preprint layout, and I'm a wreck. Everytime I finish one of these things I feel ever more deflated afterwards.
The TOC for 3D2E looks exactly the same as the 1st. Ed. except for one more Appendix. But there's a hockey sock full of new content. I haven't received the final page count yet, but it's bigger. I'd include a link to its page on the Thompson site, but that part of the site db seems to be undergoing some changes at the moment, so no linky yet.
Paint Shop Pro is outa there. QuArK is outa there. Map2Dif is outa there, ms2dtsExporter is outa there (except for the built-in one, natch). The Gimp 2 is in (but GIMPShop didn't make it, 'twas too late :-( oh well ). Milkshape 1.79 is in there still, and steroidized with Chris Robertson's DTSPlus exporter (w00t!). Torque 1.4 is in there. Gobs o' goodies on the CD too. All the known errata are fixed. Latest revision of Audacity & UltraEdit-32 are there. Lotsa new tips & notes.
Plus a special surprise chapter !
Well, I've got this week off. Gonna kick around, play some games (Prey), mow the lawn for the final time this year (I hope), maybe get out for another Paintball shoot 'em up with the boys. Do some more work on the Return to Tubettiworld--got some storyboarding that I want to do for the singleplayer game. Sleep a lot.
Next week: new term at school. I've got seven classes to teach starting in the fall semester. It's gonna be a bear!
Ha! But I have one class to teach in Fashion Marketing. That's gotta be worth something :-)
The TOC for 3D2E looks exactly the same as the 1st. Ed. except for one more Appendix. But there's a hockey sock full of new content. I haven't received the final page count yet, but it's bigger. I'd include a link to its page on the Thompson site, but that part of the site db seems to be undergoing some changes at the moment, so no linky yet.
Paint Shop Pro is outa there. QuArK is outa there. Map2Dif is outa there, ms2dtsExporter is outa there (except for the built-in one, natch). The Gimp 2 is in (but GIMPShop didn't make it, 'twas too late :-( oh well ). Milkshape 1.79 is in there still, and steroidized with Chris Robertson's DTSPlus exporter (w00t!). Torque 1.4 is in there. Gobs o' goodies on the CD too. All the known errata are fixed. Latest revision of Audacity & UltraEdit-32 are there. Lotsa new tips & notes.
Plus a special surprise chapter !
Well, I've got this week off. Gonna kick around, play some games (Prey), mow the lawn for the final time this year (I hope), maybe get out for another Paintball shoot 'em up with the boys. Do some more work on the Return to Tubettiworld--got some storyboarding that I want to do for the singleplayer game. Sleep a lot.
Next week: new term at school. I've got seven classes to teach starting in the fall semester. It's gonna be a bear!
Ha! But I have one class to teach in Fashion Marketing. That's gotta be worth something :-)
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