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... http://www.oreilly.com/catalog /ai To comment or ask technical questions about this book, send email to: bookquestions@oreilly.com For more information about our books, conferences, Resource Centers, ... first-person shooter games This approach will give you the opportunity to try out your AI ideas without having to program all the other non -AI aspects of your game http://ebooks.servegame.com/oreaiforgamdev475b/fm_sect1_002.htm ... Vector Functions and Operators Colophon r q q q q q q q http://ebooks.servegame.com/oreaiforgamdev475b/content.htm (3 of 3)7/23/05 5:52:56 PM AI for Game Developers All Online Books Table of Contents...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 11:53

... Using Polynomial Roots to Solve Equations Polynomials are equations of the form y = anxn + … aixi + a0x0 This section focuses on finding the roots of a polynomial—in other words, solving algebraically ... bipolar coordinate system You can convert from bipolar coordinates to Cartesian coordinates with the following relationship: Conversely, you can convert from bipolar coordinates to Cartesian coordinates ... this book show you how to solve these problem, it also explains why the solution works, which enables you to apply that solution to other problems that may crop up Put another way, this book doesn’t...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:53

... purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use Online editions are also available for most titles (http://my.safaribooksonline.com) For more information, contact our corporate/ institutional ... additional information You can access this page at http://oreil.ly/Physics-GameDev2 To comment or ask technical questions about this book, send email to bookques tions@oreilly.com For more information ... moment; however, when you start looking at more complicated formulas for the forces acting on a body, you’ll want to be able to break down these formulas into their component dimensions so you...

Ngày tải lên: 05/05/2014, 15:55

... code • E_OUTOFMEMORY: This return code means there was not enough available memory to perform the operation This is a failure code By examining the return codes from functions that return error ... provide access to entries in the table, and overload the assignment operator and copy constructor to provide deep copies since our class contains pointer data The following definition provides these ... once That is, if you write: vector f1; vector f2; A float version of vector is not generated twice—it only needs to be generated once to instantiate any number of float-vector object...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 09:20

... this book, send email to: bookquestions@oreilly.com For more information about our books, conferences, software, Resource Centers, and the O' Reilly Network, see our web site at: http://www.oreilly.com ... (http://safari.oreilly.com) For more information, contact our corporate/institutional sales department: (800) 998-9938 or corporate@oreilly.com Nutshell Handbook, the Nutshell Handbook logo, and the O' Reilly ... responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition By Colin Moock Foreword A scant...

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... the book, send email to: bookquestions@oreilly.com For more information about our books, conferences, software, Resource Centers, and the O' Reilly Network, see our web site at: http://www.oreilly.com ... assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein DHCP for Windows 2000 Preface Conventions Used in This Book How to Contact ... Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) These protocols provide two separate functions: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) TCP is a connection-oriented protocol This...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 10:41

... method of choice for most game composers By not having to rely on anyone else, the process becomes streamlined and more gets done You can stay focused for longer periods of time and compose scores ... into any major computer software retailer and gander at the row upon row of game boxes on display Head off to your local arcade and take in all the coin-op game consoles vying for your attention ... completeness of any information herein and is not responsible for any errors or omissions The publisher assumes no liability for damages resulting from the use of the information in this book or for any...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:30

... method of choice for most game composers By not having to rely on anyone else, the process becomes streamlined and more gets done You can stay focused for longer periods of time and compose scores ... into any major computer software retailer and gander at the row upon row of game boxes on display Head off to your local arcade and take in all the coin-op game consoles vying for your attention ... completeness of any information herein and is not responsible for any errors or omissions The publisher assumes no liability for damages resulting from the use of the information in this book or for any...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:34

... certainly easierdoing nothing trumps extra work You might feel saferno one ever got fired for choosing IBM (OK, so maybe Component Broker on Figure 1-1 For a period of time, ignorance is productive, ... beyond the usual editorial support), and many others too numerous to list here provided good reviews Invariably, some reviewers take on a book as a personal mission Usually, a book is lucky to ... book Thanks again to Justin Gehtland for use of your metrics, and being a partner through two writing projects Special thanks go to David Heinemeier Hansson for access to your framework and community...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 08:20

... abstractions, though, make an ever-rising river for the novice to navigate My question is this: how high is too high? I think we're already getting too high for most novices I no longer feel comfortable ... retrain the average COBOL programmer on Java There's just too much to learn, and it takes too much time In the past, complex problems drove higher abstraction When computers got too big for people ... have to support this theory is circumstantial:     The overpowering new mountains of persistence frameworks The proliferation of model-view-controller (MVC) frameworks The growth of containers...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 08:20

... a core of diligent developers more or less completely Others bought some of the message, but cast a wary eye northwest A growing core of developers looked openly for alternatives, like Novell's ... from You need to remember the conditions that caused us to leave the existing dominant languages in droves You must understand the economic forces that drove the revolution And you cannot forget ... vendors work together You just pitched all the competition and looked to Redmond for the answers But you had to be willing to give up other choices, and you had to live with the answers that you got...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 08:20

... applications that relied on fine-grained communication across the wire Too many round-trip communications led to poor performance and reputation problems for CORBA 2.2.6 Inheritance Problems C++ nudged ... have this problem at all You deal with only one type of source file, with one kind of import, and no conditional compilation 2.2.3 Strings Many of the largest corporations used C++ for enterprise ... accumulating on a boot, the language that once looked so cool on a resume began to weigh down the brightest developers, and stymie lesser developers completely Instead of moving to a limited language...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 08:20

... decisions didn't seem so hard You could try out a deployment scenario If you didn't like it, you could just move on The new jet stream was in position to feed power to the growing storm 2.3.2 C++ on ... two of the most successful Java open source projects ever His persistent efforts at Sun led to open sourcing both projects He is now one of the best-selling authors of Apple operating system books ... to work with And reliance on tools to make it easy is a cop-out As well, I don't like the massive monolithic approach to "Editions." Most people don't need J2EE They need a web container End of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 08:20

... real value, you'll thrive If you try to live off of technology that's well understood and popular, you'll die Open source software raises the bar of what you've got to to make money IBM has dealt ... catalyst Software is more prone to monopolies than most other industries because software moves fast and obsolescence can devastate a company For this reason, market share tends to favor the market ... the open source community The typical open source development cycle works as follows (and shown in Figure 2-4): Build Once Java geeks solve a problem often enough, they often build the solution...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 08:20

... remember working on object-oriented technologies at IBM The project, called System Object Model (SOM) , emerged from a research project that formed the foundation for OS/2's groundbreaking object-oriented ... providing a lower-level, firmer foundation for portability Java designers bet that they could overcome performance concerns It was not a new idea; nor was it a popular one Over time, they proved to be ... as possible Then, we could develop a common suite of libraries that developers could use across languages and operating systems Over time, we discovered the difficulties of porting a technology...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 08:20

... systems, and any other enterprise system that required a Java connection The combination of vendor cooperation and support drove cooperation in standards and proliferation of useful connectors that we've ... that's important to you Beyond integration, Java now provides excellent facilities for mapping objectoriented models to relational databases You can distributed coordination of transactions, and ... the course of my interviews for this book, I found broadly different views of why they failed:    Deployment was hard Applet developers discovered that they had traded one problemdeploying operating...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 08:20

... a full open source application server, and is changing the model for software companies Now, several companies use the open source community to control certain important technologies For example, ... the open source community is easy to manipulate or control It's a force of its own If you're starting a new software company or managing a mature one, you have to consider the impact of open source ... experience from successful implementations More and more, customers look to open source software to solve critical problems, because they innovate so well Just as you've witnessed the rise of open source...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 08:20

... applications Then, you'll need to understand Tapestry , or Struts , or some other web MVC framework, to help you organize your user interface code base Most of us try also to learn an object relational ... servlet specification, and more about XML As a consequence, the getting-started documentation for Tomcat has grown from a couple of pages to dozens of pages You might not think that substantial ... relational database, you have to learn much more to the job today than you had to learn five years ago And you have to work harder to achieve the same results Most of the added value deals with corner...

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