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3D Game Programming All in One - must be a popular item

by Kevin Johnson · in Torque Game Engine · 05/12/2004 (8:20 am) · 26 replies

Here's a copy of an email i got after ordering the book..

Greetings from Amazon.com.

We wanted to let you know that there is a delay with the
following item(s) in the order you placed on May 10 2004 09:13 PDT
:

1 of Ken Finney, Kenneth Finney "3D Game Programming All in One"

...

estimated delivery dates:

Ken Finney, Kenneth Finney "3D Game Programming All in One"
[Paperback]
Estimated arrival date: 05/14/2004 - 05/19/2004

We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this delay.


I was crushed! In the midst of my preperation for hari-kari
guess what arives at my door @ 7:30am!
Kenneth Finney "3D Game Programming All in One"

go figure.
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Associate Melv May
#1
05/12/2004 (11:22 am)
Grrr ... mine's still 'waiting for supplier' from WHSmith in the UK.

- Melv.

Torque Owner Desmond Fletcher
fletcher
#2
05/13/2004 (4:22 pm)
Got mine :)

Torque Owner Gregory "Centove" McLean
#3
05/13/2004 (4:58 pm)
Mine just arrived today :)

Torque Owner James Yong
#4
05/13/2004 (11:50 pm)
Why not read this while you are waiting.

EGTGE

Torque Owner James A. Burke
#5
05/13/2004 (11:55 pm)
I bought mine nearly a week ago and I'm still waiting for it :(

Torque Owner Zmatrix
#6
05/14/2004 (6:09 am)
I ordered mine yesterday, so far no email about a delay.



Zmatrix

Torque Owner Mitovo
#7
05/16/2004 (9:38 pm)
Hmm.. Interesting. I must have had extremely good (lucky) timing, then.

I ordered mine on the 12th, received no email about a delay. I also was supposed to receive the book tomorrow (17th) but received it on Saturday.. 2 days ahead of schedule.

My first thought upon receiving it: Wow.. that's a big book! :-)

Upon skimming through it, man.. now I see why so many people are psyched about this book. I don't think I've ever seen so much information so thorougly presented in one place. Excellent work!

Can't wait to "dig in" to it more :-)

Torque 3D Owner Ken Paulson
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#8
05/16/2004 (11:53 pm)
So far the content is really solid. But as with many of the books from that publisher, the editing is atrocious. Hopefully later editions will take care of that.

Torque Owner James A. Burke
#9
05/17/2004 (12:06 am)
:( Damn Amazon, take forever to deliver to Australia :(

Torque Owner John Hanobik
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#10
05/17/2004 (4:43 pm)
After reading all of the posts about this book, walked into a Barnes & Noble's and picked one up. Outstanding book !!! Great content from A to Z for Torque. Couldn't put it down.

Torque Owner Bruno Grieco
#11
05/17/2004 (6:01 pm)
I've heard about this book before and I'm considering purchasing it. But still have some questions :

How does it explains Torque ? Is it in the Tutorial-example like the codesampler tutorials i.e. "Place this and that in your superbomb.cs file and it should work" or is it well explained i.e. "This command tells the superbomb to do this and that. the first parameter is....".

How far from the online documentation it goes ?

Torque 3D Owner Ken Paulson
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#12
05/17/2004 (8:56 pm)
The book is very detailed. You'll be sitting at your computer with the Torque console open typing things line by line as the book explains what's happening and why.

If it has a fault (in terms of content) it's that more experienced programmers will find the pace to be pretty slow. IMHO, it's better to over-explain than under-explain, so I don't see it as a real problem.

I haven't had much time with it yet, but so far I'm impressed.

Torque 3D Owner Gareth Davies
#13
05/18/2004 (4:20 am)
Anyone waiting for it in the UK should not waste their time with WHSmith and order it from amazon.com. WHS don't even have a real estimate availablity date yet.

Took 4 days to get mine, and I must say i'm enjoying it so far :) Probably cost less than the UK price as well (since of the weak dollar atm).

Torque 3D Owner Jeff Wilkinson
#14
05/18/2004 (4:50 am)
I recived mine yesterday from chapters

Associate Melv May
#15
05/18/2004 (8:03 am)
Gareth,

I think I'll do that; thanks for the advice.

- Melv.

Torque Owner Hugo Queiriga
#16
05/18/2004 (8:32 am)
I bought mine from Amazon.com, no taxes and it took also 4 days to arrive in the end it cost me

Associate Melv May
#17
05/18/2004 (8:40 am)
Gareth,

I think I'll do that; thanks for the advice.

- Melv.

Associate Melv May
#18
05/18/2004 (8:41 am)
Done!

Priority international shipping from Amazon.com with an estimate delivery of May 21st ... hurrah for Amazon. :)

Thanks Gareth.

- Melv.

Torque Owner Hugo Queiriga
#19
05/18/2004 (9:00 am)
I bought mine from Amazon.com, no taxes and it took also 4 days to arrive in the end it cost me

Torque Owner David Freeman
#20
05/19/2004 (11:45 am)
Got Mine. Went to the local Barnes and Noble here in Miami cuz I couldn't wait and paid the full price of $50. Was it worth it? Well, let's just say I have been smiling happily since I finished it, and am overwhelmed with game ideas. So many questions answered in one book. Now I'm going back through it again S L O W L Y, cuz there is so much to digest and master. Simply outstanding! A must read if you are new to The Torque Engine. Wish I had had it months ago when I first purchased the engine.
DCF
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