From:	"Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Msnews@pineight.8m.com>
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"Peter Restall" <pete AT restall DOT net> wrote:
> In response to Daniel Phillips' writing:
> >
> > "The Black Art of 3D Game Programming"

By Andre LaMothe IIRC.

> The Black Art book is an *excellent* resource to have; it
> takes you through almost every step of building a 3D game
> (including multiplayer techniques)

It doesn't cover interfacing with NetWare.

> Although it's a fairly old book (came out around about when
> DOOM did), it covers the basics of 3D well, and also touches
> upon more complex topics (BSPs, voxels, etc.)

It doesn't cover voxels per se, but it does cover runlength
voxels, better known as height mapping.

> The only down-side to this book is that there are topics
> which he touches upon (ie. affine texture mapping), but
> doesn't explain them in *great* detail.

The book says "minimum requirements: 386" which cannot
handle textures very fast, and it's mostly geared toward fitting
everything into 640K. Anyway, Allegro will do textures for
you. Just pass the coordinates of the points, and Allegro will
texture a triangle.

> Also, he basically says 'use someone elses sound generating
> library because it's too complex to make your own'.

That was before every sound card emulated the Blaster.
In any case, "someone elses sound generating library"
for DJGPP is Allegro.

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