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[Ecrofirt]

As some people here know, I've been doing some Xbox homebrew game development.

Currently, everything I've done has been in SDLx. While this is good fr starting out, and I've learned a good deal from it, it's not really something that will get me noticed as a budding game programmer.

So, I've decided to make my future projects use DirectX. It's my understanding that Xbox uses DirectX 8, so I'm looking for a very good DirectX 8 book.

Can anyone recommend anything?

 

[Ecrofirt]

evening bump

 

[Phoenix]

evening bump

Not really. Most of the really good stuff didn't come out until the 9.0 release.

 

[Ecrofirt]

Well, can someone at least provide me with an adequate DX8 book? If that's not an option, how would you suggest I go about learning it, Pheonix?

 

[Phoenix]

Start here on gamedev.net

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=24

Get a feel for what the capabilities are.

Visit the MSDN site (you need to camp this)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/

Join the gamedev.net and flipcode.com forums


Write a lot of sample pieces and submit them to other people to review and test.

 

[Ecrofirt]

Pheonix, thank you.

You're always a good help.

 

[stormer]

search on amazon and read the ratings