3D Game Programming All in One, Third Edition 3rd Edition

by Kenneth C Finney (Author)

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3D GAME PROGRAMMING ALL IN ONE, THIRD EDITION is perfect for anyone interested in learning the skills and processes involved in making 3D games. This new edition of the bestselling book shows you how to design and create every aspect of a fully featured game using the Torque 3D game engine. Starting with an introduction to game programming, this comprehensive book provides an overview of the gaming industry, game engines, programming, 3D concepts, texturing and modeling, and even audio engineering. After all the techniques are presented, you will use your new skills and the material on the DVD to create a game. The DVD contains everything you need to create a complete game, including all of the TorqueScript source code in sample and final form, the Torque 3D Tools Demo game engine, MilkShape 3D for 3D player and item modeling, The Gimp 2 for texture and image manipulation, Audacity for sound editing and recording, UVMapper for performing UV unwrapping tasks, and Torsion, the Integrated Development Environment tool for TorqueScript code.

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Kenneth C. Finney teaches in the Game Development and Entrepreneurship program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, where he runs the Game Development Workshop. Ken has taught game design, level and GUI design, game development, programming, and prototyping at the Art Institute of Toronto where he was lead faculty member in the Game Art & Design program for five years. Ken is the creator of the popular TubettiWorld "Online Campaign" Mod and the "QuicknDirty" game management tools for NovaLogic's Delta Force 2 game series. In addition to being an associate developer of the Torque Game Engine at GarageGames, Ken is the author of several books about game programming including 3D Game Programming All In One, 1st & 2nd Editions and Advanced 3D Game Programming All In One. Ken is 50% owner of TubettiWorld Games, Inc. (TWG), an Ontario-based company that is creating a new and unique Action/Adventure game based on the original TubettiWorld design, using Torque Game Engine Advanced. The team that Finney has assembled at TWG was responsible for delivering a 3D action racing game for a major U.S. toy manufacturer in 2008.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cengage Learning PTR; 3rd edition (December 3, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1152 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1435457447
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1435457447
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 2.5 x 9.25 inches

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Ken Finney teaches Game Design, Level and GUI Design, Game Development, Programming and Prototyping at the Art Institute of Toronto where he is Lead Faculty Member in the Game Art & Design program, and Graphics Design for Game Artists and XNA programming at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Ken is the creator of the popular TubettiWorld "Online Campaign" Mod and the "QuicknDirty" game management tools for Novalogic's Delta Force 2 game series. In addition to being an Associate Developer of the Torque Game Engine at GarageGames, Ken is the author of several books about game programming including 3D Game Programming All In One, 2nd Edition and Advanced 3D Game Programming All In One. Ken is 50% owner of TubettiWorld Games, Inc. (TWG), an Ontario-based company that is creating a new and unique Action/Adventure game based on the original TubettiWorld design, using Torque Game Engine Advanced. The team that Finney has assembled at TWG was responsible for delivering a 3D action racing game for a major U.S. toy manufacturer in the Spring of 2008. TWG is GarageGames' world-wide provider of Torque training for commercial customers.

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UnityPro

Great book for getting up to speed on Torque 3D

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2013

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This tome is huge, and packed with a diverse amount of information on 3D game creation workflows.

I am about a quarter of the way through the book and found it has helped me get a better grasp around Torque 3D. Since my goal was to find out more information on programming Torque 3D via TorqueScript, this quarter of the book has been adequate in meeting my needs.

Please note this review is on the Third Edition of this book, which was updated from previous editions by updating to Torque 3D instead of TGE. This is significant, especially since Torque 3D is now open source and can be used by anyone interested in creating 3D games.

Beyond introducing readers to Torque 3D, the nomenclature used, and the structure of creating 3D games with Torque 3D, the book also introduces modeling, animation, and other parts of the 3D game making work pipeline. I have not read these these other portions of the book, so I can only comment on the TorqueScript portion introduced at the beginning of the book.

Although example scripts are provided and a DVD of the scripts is included, I found the author glossed past many of the commands/objects included in the scripts. I was hoping for more detail on what the various commands, methods, and other lines of code actually meant so I could use them in my own projects. As stated previously, I have not finished the book so this information may be forthcoming in later chapters. This is the reason I took one star away from my review.

Overall I found the author's style of writing engaging and interesting. Learning by example is effective for me.

I would definitely recommend this book to others looking to delve into creating 3D games or other 3D visualization projects.

I wish the third edition of the book was available electronically for the Kindle, but it does not appear to be available in this format (yet).

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M. C.

But is does give a good understanding of the Torque game engine

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2017

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Programming examples don't work. But is does give a good understanding of the Torque game engine. The Torque engine comes with documentation explaining the Torque engine and its programming language in detail.

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Nick M

NOT a good resource

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2013

I have read and worked through Chapter 5 of this book. The author writes well enough and does seem to know the subject matter well. However, in practice, this book is a failure. The structure of the book begins with a foundation of programming and covers a primer of the Torquescript scripting language. Subsequent chapters start the reader on writing out the source code to a simple example game. This is where the book begins to falter in a bad way. Specifically, Chapter 5, provides an extensive code listing to fill out the structure for the example game. After hours of typing in this code, line by line, I found the code did not run. After correcting all of my own typographical errors, I found that the code itself references files that do not exist. I began debugging the AUTHOR'S code to get the sample game to run. This is when I found that the code listing in the book does NOT match the provided code on the accompanying DVD.
Indeed, if you copy the code from the DVD into the file directory and execute, it runs fine. However, this is not the code that is described in the book. I found paragraphs describing the function of a particular line of code that isn't even used in the DVD code and breaks the program!
In my mind, this is unacceptable for a programming text. With the acute detail required in programming logic, such an egregious errors cannot be tolerated in a "definitive" text. I lost confidence in this book after slogging through Chapter 5. I would certainly dissuade any would be customer from buying this book. It feels as though it were hastily thrown together for quick publication. It is almost as if the author had forgotten to update large sections from the previous edition, sections that are now out of date or obsolete in the current iteration of the Torque3D engine.
This may be a great book after an extensive re-write. I cannot continue with a course of study when I have to worry about debugging/re-working the author's code as well as my own.
Errata are always going to be present in programming books and most publisher's have the wherewithal to provide an online forum to identify and rectify such errors. This title comes with no such benefit. Even the web link listed in the first section of the book is broken. This title shows a copyright of 2013, but it feel at least 4 or 5 years old.

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Matt Callahan

A very valuable game creation asset

Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2014

This is a great book for aspiring or industry game creators and business people who are looking to gain additional knowledge and perspective on taking a game design and bringing it to life. The author speaks to a wide range of experience levels in an understandable way throughout the whole book.

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