Programming Role Games with DirectX
Author: Jim Adams
No game draws a player into its world in quite the same way as a role-playing game does. In role-playing games, players break through the barrier that exists between their actions and the fantastic world that they're navigating through and instead become an inhabitant of that world. Get ready to put your creative ideas in motion and try your hand at creating your own role-playing game! "Programming Role Playing Games with DirectX, 2nd Edition" will show you how to do it as you create cool graphics and combat engines, handle players in your game, use scripts and items, and make your game multiplayer-capable. This book breaks a role-playing game down into its essential components, examining the details of each and showing you how to use them in your game project. Learn how to draw with DirectX Graphics, play audio with DirectX Audio, network with DirectPlay, and process input with DirectInput. By the time you finish, you'll have the skills you need to create a complete role-playing game.
Table of Contents:
| Ch. 1 | Preparing for the book | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Drawing with DirectX graphics | 45 |
| Ch. 3 | Interacting with DirectInput | 141 |
| Ch. 4 | Playing sound and music with DirectX audio and direct show | 171 |
| Ch. 5 | Networking with DirectPlay | 233 |
| Ch. 6 | Creating the game core | 275 |
| Ch. 7 | Using 2-D graphics | 339 |
| Ch. 8 | Creating 3-D graphics engines | 371 |
| Ch. 9 | Mixing 2-D and 3-D graphics engines | 433 |
| Ch. 10 | Implementing scripts | 449 |
| Ch. 11 | Defining and using objects | 483 |
| Ch. 12 | Controlling players and characters | 521 |
| Ch. 13 | Working with maps and levels | 621 |
| Ch. 14 | Creating combat sequences | 675 |
| Ch. 15 | Getting online with multiplayer gaming | 697 |
| Ch. 16 | Putting together a full game | 755 |
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E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise
Author: Grant Norris
Is Your Company Getting the Most from Its Investment in Change?
Many companies have already invested heavily in infrastructure change, some are making that investment now, and all are contemplating the costs of becoming or evolving as an e-business. Is your company a "greenfield" organization with no back-end systems, or one whose infrastructure support systems are integrated across the enterprise? Are you just beginning to think about e-business capabilities, or are you on the leading edge of convergence? Whatever your company's position on the ERP/E-Business Matrix, E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise provides the proven techniques you need to know to meld enterprise resource planning capabilities with the communications power of the Internet.
Is Your Company Positioned for E-Business Success?
The Internet has revolutionized twenty-first century business. Organizations today can communicate with customers, suppliers, and sellers at e-speed with the click of a mouse. Yet, with all of the excitement about the external possibilities of the Internet, companies still need efficient internal processes to make and move products, manage finances, recruit and motivate employees, and excel.
E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise covers the skills and tools you will need to combine existing ERP software and capabilities with emerging Web-based technologies. In this forward-thinking outline for a new business structure, executives and managers will discover:
- Strategies for established companies to penetrate the Internet marketplace
- Procedures that lower costs across the supply and demand chain
- Techniques that help you meet—and master—the dot.com challenge
Internet Works"
It's full of diagrams and is written in a direct and concise style.
Booknews
Provides techniques for melding enterprise resource planning (ERP) capabilities with the communications power of the Internet. Shows how start-up and established companies can link their existing ERP systems with the information capabilities of their customers, and offers a framework for understanding e-business opportunities within the context of a traditional enterprise and its infrastructure. Explains how the Internet impacts supply chain management, customer relationship management, and shared services, and looks at the future of Web-based technologies. Norris is a partner in PricewaterhouseCooper's management consulting services practice. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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