Recommended book for Irrlicht / 3D-Engines in general

badday · Post by **badday** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:16 am

Hi there,

I´m actually looking for some book about Irrlicht and/or 3D-Engines in general. What I want to get out of that book is to be able to use and understand the irrlicht-engine. I guess there are many things quiet similar in the engines available, so maybe there is a good book which is not specific to the Irrlich engine.

Actually I had some look at http://www.amazon.com/Texturing-Modelin ... 484&sr=8-1 , but I don´t know whether it´s the right thing.

Thanks a lot.

Greetings,

badday

slavik262 · Post by **slavik262** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:48 pm

I'm not sure the book you linked will be the most help to you. Have you tried looking at the tutorials in the SDK? They do wonders to explain how Irrlicht works.

badday · Post by **badday** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:58 pm

Yes, I had some look at some tutorials and worked with them, but I just don´t like tutorials, don´t ask why, I can´t say it

So I´m looking for a book.

slavik262 · Post by **slavik262** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:22 pm

There's really no book on Irrlicht. I'm sure you can find dozens of books about 3d rendering in DirectX and OpenGL, but I'm not sure how much those will help you either since the whole point of a graphics engine is to abstract those two to make things simpler.

badday · Post by **badday** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:33 pm

Are there other useful topics (covering more advanced stuff) than the ones on http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tutorials.html ?

Thanks.

slavik262 · Post by **slavik262** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:43 pm

No, but if you tell us what you'd like to do, I'm sure myself and the rest of the Irrlicht community would love to help you out with whatever you have in mind.

badday · Post by **badday** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:53 pm

OK, thanks.

Here´s my actual question: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... 831#231831