Any ideas for Irrlicht Book? "like OGRE one"

beshrkayali · Post by **beshrkayali** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:08 am

and ideas?

JP · Post by JP » Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:12 am

You mean writing a book to explain how to use Irrlicht?

That's a bit pointless isn't it and i wouldn't of thought it was very economically viable. Irrlicht gets updated every few months and so a new book would have to come out with all the new updates explained.

It's much better to just have a website with tutorials and a forum to ask questions

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:13 am

Hahaha, Irrlicht DOESNT NEED A BOOK! Thats why OGRE has one and Irrlicht doesnt...

Hell even I might need a book to use OGRE...

agi_shi · Post by **agi_shi** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:35 pm

BlindSide wrote:Hahaha, Irrlicht DOESNT NEED A BOOK! Thats why OGRE has one and Irrlicht doesnt...

Hell even I might need a book to use OGRE...

Not exactly. I don't need a book. Nor do the other 95% of people who use Ogre. I've read reviews on the book, and the whole thing was theory. Very little code was given, and most of the code that WAS given was code from the examples and tutorials that are found on the interweb.

If you think you need a book for Ogre, BlindSide (BTW, nice screenies on gamedev), you need to RTFM, RTFD, and RTFT.

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:37 pm

I was kidding offcourse, I don't need a book for anything...

(Except entertainment and self-motivation.... oh yeah and uni..)

PS: On a side-note, not patronizing or anything, more like a passing amusement... Are you on some form of holy crusade or something?

agi_shi · Post by **agi_shi** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:02 pm

BlindSide wrote:I was kidding offcourse, I don't need a book for anything...

PS: On a side-note, not patronizing or anything, more like a passing amusement... Are you on some form of holy crusade or something?

Holy crusade? What's that?

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:07 pm

Where you go to all extremes to prove your beliefs. This usually includes killing, conversion, and torture; sometimes the last two are combined.

agi_shi · Post by **agi_shi** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:20 pm

monkeycracks wrote:Where you go to all extremes to prove your beliefs. This usually includes killing, conversion, and torture; sometimes the last two are combined.

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:44 pm

Is that a yes? I'll put a jihad on you.

beshrkayali · Post by **beshrkayali** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:39 am

I'll put a jihad on you.

you're not using the word in it's right place

catron · Post by **catron** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:15 am

go beshr!!! (just one of my random posts)...

But i really think an irrlicht ebook wouldnt be half bad. bitplane, get on it!!!

jking

Catron

TheMiss · Post by **TheMiss** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:52 pm

I think both Irrlicht and Ogre don't need a BOOK. Even if it's me, who is bad in 3D can still learn them with thier existing tutorials(but of course Irrlicht is easier and I chose it). When you understand basic of engines you can find extended tutorials in thier forum.

But if there is one it looks good

Sory for my bad english

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:57 am

Since I'm not familiar with jihad's that doesn't surprise me -.-

GameDude · Post by **GameDude** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:06 am

There isn't a need for a Irrlict book, the tutorials are good enough.

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:30 am

Irrlicht would be an optimal engine which could be used in a book about game programming. In that case it wouldn't even matter much that new version are done so fast. The author could just add a CD with a current version to the book.