Customer Reviews

Game Art for Teens, Second Edition

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So far this is a very good book... except the figures in
the book are too small.

Eg, "Create a polygon cube of the dimensions shown in
Figure XX.XX" is given though the image is so small
that you can't read the numbers. The sliders are helpful
for some figures giving a hint at what the number should be.

Suggestions as to fix this problem are as follows. This
font size problem which if it was present in the first
version really should have been fixed in this 2nd version.

1) Use a magnifying glass but it's still too small to
read. You can see things like slider position and vertex
position though.
2) Scan a page with 300dpi or 500dpi but the quality of
the printed figure isn't good enough for you to read the
scanned version. And it takes too long to scan at that dpi.
3) Put the figure images up on a website like the author's
website or publisher.
4) Put the figure images on the CD that accompanies the
book. There's probably plenty of room on the CD.

But the pros of small figures is that you press every
widget on the user interface relating to the figure...
That as compared with just entering the numbers if a
readable figure.