Good DX8 litterature from an OOP viewpoint?

Ziphnor · 2001-11-08T03:09:34

Hi there, before flaming me for asking a stupid question like "whats a good book to learn Dx8" when a list of books with reviews can be found on this very site, please consider that the reviewing crowdd rarely writes very much about there own background knowledge, which is problematic for me. It seems that everybody today is C people, struggling to learn C++ and OOP. Well, im sort of coming from the "other side", im a Computer science and Mathematics student pretty well fluent in Java. In java, im pretty confident in AWT/Swing(ie the Java equivalent of MFC), and have also done some programs needing basic graphics capability. I even participated in making to small games, one a result of a OOP framework for Arcade games, which we, to show it was working, fleshed out into a breakout clone. I also participated in making a Checkers game, with decent AI, GUI etc. Recently ive taking an interest in C++, which i mostly find compelling because of operator overloading, MFC, DirectX, and the way it compiles to a native executable without using special compilers. Since ive been "raised" strictly too use OOP "everywhere" i found alot of C++ tutorials confusing, because they weighted explaining OOP principles(which i already understand) above the rest(like messing with pointers, C++ code/naming conventions etc). But now im starting to catch on to C++, and would really like to look into game programming and DirectX programming. But i would really appreciate a book that took a strong OOP view on how to structure programs and didnt have "C-style" examples. So the obvious question is, which book should that be? I would strongly prefer one that covered DX8, since there seems to have been some major changes in DX8 compared to DX7. Finally, it doesnt need to bother explaining the mathematics of the 3d graphics too much, since i already had some courses in linear algebra. Thanks for any help you can give, and for reading this ridicously long post. PS: I use Visual C++ 6.0 for all my C++ programming so it would be really nice with a book that did the same.

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Started by Ziphnor November 06, 2001 02:39 PM

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November 08, 2001 03:00 AM

"I may have misunderstood you, I had assumed that you wanted a good oop-oriented book so you could write your own OOP code (i.e. your own wrapper class or engine)."

I do want to write my own OOP code, i just want to base it on already existing classes if i can. My expectation coming from java, is that there is already some base class which i can use to derive my own class from.[and yes i do know thats not always the case with C++].
On the other hand, i dont want to base my classes on some handicapped class that only works for small program for examples(like the Applet in Java