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Title: Director Shockwave Studio Developer's Guide by James Newton ISBN: 0-07-213265-5 Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 23 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best
Comment: This book may be the best for intermediate or advanced Director developers to expand their skills. James Newton has a knack for explaining things in such a clear and concise way, you barely notice how deeply he is taking you into the topic.
Surely one of the most complex tasks a programmer can take on is learning how to program 3-D environments. You barely learn the basics like worlds, objects, and textures before you have to face dauting tasks like understanding how to place and move things along three axes (x, y, and z). This is stuff that wasn't covered in your Euclidian geometry course, but Newton explains it so clearly that you find yourself nodding and thinking, "of course!" Other topics such as imaging Lingo and the Multi User Server are covered in equal depth, and with equal clarity.
This is not the book for a beginner, but you don't have to be a Lingo expert to get a lot out of it. If you understand the basics of programming in Director, you should have no problem understanding the book. Likewise, if you are an advanced, or even expert, programmer, there is such a wealth of detail and depth of coverage that you can't help learning all sorts of new techniques--and all in such a painless, easy-to-understand way.
Rating: 4
Summary: Director Shockwave Studio Developer's Guide
Comment: I did not pick this book up to learn Director's 3D and imaging features with any particular project in mind. Rather, I wanted to understand what you can do with these tools and what their limitations might be. Mission accomplished.
However, the content is much deeper than a simple overview. The book's intent is to present enough of the math and physics behind 3D, and the color theory behind imaging to give the developer a deeper understanding, and therefore, a broader base for problem-solving. To this end, an awful lot of work and thought went into the content design. There are example movies for every covered feature, and the material in advanced chapters is arranged to build on previous concepts. There is also a great deal of non-tutorial information on the merits of various methods to accomplish the same thing, and on clever ways to use features that you may not have thought of.
In addition to the example movies there are several utility movies that are particularly useful. Macromedia did not provide much in the way of a visual interface to 3D Lingo, or imaging Lingo. The utility movies, such as the 3D shader/texture explorer and copyPixels image explorer let you adjust and see the interplay of hundreds of different parameter values in real time, on your own image or model. This is quite a timesaver and worth the cost of the book all by itself.
My one regret is that my hazy memory of high school math was not enough of a foundation to understand much of the math presented in the 3D sections. But there are books for that too.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Have
Comment: The one essential book for Director users. The others are nice to have - this one is essential.
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Title: Shockwave 3D (With CD-ROM) by Jason Wolf ISBN: 0735711976 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Director's Third Dimension: Fundamentals of 3D Programming in Director 8.5 (With CD-ROM) by Paul Catanese ISBN: 0672322285 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 17 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Director 8.5 Studio: with 3D, Xtras, Flash and Sound by Christopher Robbins, Brian Douglas, Karsten Schmidt, Kenneth Orr, Jose Rodrigues, Joel Baumann, Tomas Roope, Tota Hasegawa, Andrew Allenson, Andrew Cameron ISBN: 1903450691 Publisher: Friends of Ed Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Special Edition Using Macromedia Director MX by Gary Rosenzweig ISBN: 0789729032 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 13 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio Interface Design by Jason Wolf, Epic Software ISBN: 0735712182 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 05 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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