Maya Illuminated: Games |
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Maya Illuminated: Games is a comprehensive guide to the powerful tools Maya gives you to create stunning game art. Inside you’ll find exhaustive coverage of both Maya’s polygonal modeling and UV mapping toolsets. Also covered is information on character rigging and animation as they apply to game work, and ways to use Maya for going beyond low-poly work for games. This book is the perfect companion for working game artists and aspiring game artists alike.
Author: Lane Daughtry, Brian Demong ISBN: 0970753012 Go to Amazon |
Real-Time Rendering (2nd Edition) |
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One would think that the title of Tomas Moller's and Eric Haines's book, Real-Time Rendering, would be a contradiction in terms. How can such a computationally intensive process as rendering computer graphics ever hope to be done on the fly, in the blink of an eye, without delay--in short, in real time?
The term rendering, as it applies to computer graphics, refers to the mathematically intensive process of creating a picture or sequence of frames based on geometry. The duration of this process is dependent on the complexity of the scene (a forest with many trees and thousands of leaves will take much longer to render than a scene consisting of a white box over a gray background) and the speed of the hardware doing the calculations.
Author: Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines ISBN: 1568811829 Go to Amazon |
Level of Detail for 3D Graphics |
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Level of detail (LOD) techniques are increasingly used by professional real-time developers to strike the balance between breathtaking virtual worlds and smooth, flowing animation. Level of Detail for 3D Graphics brings together, for the first time, the mechanisms, principles, practices, and theory needed by every graphics developer seeking to apply LOD methods.
Author: David Luebke, Martin Reddy ISBN: 1558608389 Go to Amazon |
Real-Time Shading |
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Written for video game developers, scientists and engineers dealing with graphic models, and graphics professionals, this volume introduces the fundamentals and procedures of computer graphic shading. The authors discuss high-level shading languages such as RenderMan and present algorithms used in shading hardware. The final part of the text explores future trends.
Author: Marc Olano (Editor), John C. Hart (Editor) ISBN: 1568811802 Go to Amazon |
