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• Blender Game Engine: Beginner’s Guide
• LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production
• CryENGINE 3 Game Development: Beginner’s Guide
• Mudbox 2013 Cookbook
• Balsamiq Wireframes Quickstart Guide
• IBM Websphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud

Blender Game Engine: Beginner’s Guide Posted: 23 Oct 2012 10:03 AM PDT Book Description Blender Game Engine is the part of the Blender 3D editor used to create actual 3D video games. It’s the ideal entry level game development environment because you don’t even need to learn to program. Create a complete game using Bender’s innovative logic bricks. “Blender Game Engine: Beginner’s Guide” is the ideal introduction to game development. Using only logic bricks, the reader will create a complete game in Blender. By the end of the book the reader will be able to use their skills to create their own 3D games. What will you learn from this book How to control game characters Setting up a complete game level Creating spawn points for your player character Modify enemy behavior without needing to use scripts Set up collision detection and enemy AI Import freely available 3D game assets for use in your game How to master Blender’s logic editor Approach Create a complete game step by step with no previous experience necessary. Practical tutorials take you through the entire process from beginning to end. Who this book is written for If you have used Blender before but never got to grips with the Blender Game Engine (BGE), this book is for you. If you have tried and failed with other game development environments, or if scripting is not your strong point, this is where you should start. Book Details Paperback: 206 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 22, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849517029 ISBN-13: 978-1849517027 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts CryENGINE 3 Game Development: Beginner's Guide (23-10-2012) Core HTML5 Canvas (10-08-2012) Blender 3D Basics (18-07-2012) ZBrush 4 Sculpting for Games: Beginner's Guide (08-04-2011) XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming: Developing for Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360 (26-01-2011) Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook (09-04-2012) Windows Phone 7 Game Development (21-12-2010) Unity 3D Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide (29-10-2010) Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials (05-01-2012) Unity 3 Game Development Hotshot (08-09-2011) The post Blender Game Engine: Beginner’s Guide appeared first on Wow! eBook - Blog.

LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production Posted: 23 Oct 2012 10:00 AM PDT Book Description You’ve scoured the forums, watched the tutorial videos, and done everything you can to learn the secrets of the art of making dance music. Everyone is saying something different about how to get into producing your own projects. This book will help connect the dots and lay a solid foundation of knowledge so you can get beats banging out of LMMS. This book will show you the ins and outs of making Dance music with LMMS. Do you make house, trance, techno or down-tempo? After this book you’ll be able to make a song that stands out from the masses, using time honoured tricks of the trade. From inception to conception, this book will help give you a workflow to channel your muse using LMMS. Readers will be given a brief lesson on the best of dance music history, then learn how to recreate it using the Open Source digital workstation – LMMS. The reader will be guided through creating a project from start to finish. By the end of this book, the reader will know how to create a full dance track in LMMS and make it ready for distribution. Along the way, readers will take short stops into music theory, song arranging, recording, and other related information to give them a good foundation for making dance music with depth as well as power. Reading LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production will not just teach the reader how to use LMMS, but also how good dance music is crafted. The reader will not just be taught how to make decisions in LMMS, but when and why. After devouring this book, the reader should be able to focus on his or her creativity, with LMMS as a co-conspirator in the process of making great dance music. What will you learn from this book How to install and navigate LMMS How to create compelling bass lines and loops How to create a sample library of custom-made sounds How to use the LMMS editors to create and edit your music Explore the instruments included in LMMS How to use the Song Editor to arrange a song How to mix and use effects How to export a mix from LMMS so that it can be shared with the world Approach Written in a step by step tutorial style, learning comes as a result of creating a complete dance music track, along with the explanations that follow each stage. Who this book is written for You have a computer and a love for dance and electronic music. Maybe you’ve been to some clubs, and the energy of electronic dance music has you completely under its spell. You see a DJ spinning, and everyone is dancing. It’s infectious. You want to make music that affects people that way. Today the open source community has offered you LMMS. Read this book, and you'll be shown a process to creating great dance music. This book is going to connect the dots if you have already started making dance music, and provide a very solid foundation if you are just getting started – no matter what your skill level is. Book Details Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (September 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849517045 ISBN-13: 978-1849517041 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Ubuntu Made Easy, 5th Edition (13-08-2012) Pro Android Media (28-12-2010) Make: School's Out Summer Fun Guide (16-06-2012) Learning Android Game Programming (11-05-2012) Frequency Acquisition Techniques for Phase Locked Loops (17-10-2012) Windows Phone 7 in Action (19-09-2012) Windows 8 Plain & Simple (08-10-2012) Windows 8 for Tablets Plain & Simple (08-10-2012) web2py Application Development Cookbook (16-04-2012) Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS6 (24-09-2012) The post LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production appeared first on Wow! eBook - Blog.

CryENGINE 3 Game Development: Beginner’s Guide Posted: 23 Oct 2012 09:57 AM PDT Book Description CryENGINE is a complete game development environment used by AAA game development studio Crytek to produce blockbuster games such as Crysis 1, 2 and 3. This complete Beginner’s Guide takes the would be game developer through the steps required to create a game world complete with event scripting, user interface and 3D environment in the free CryENGINE SDK. Learn to create game worlds with the CryENGINE 3 Sandbox, the tool used to create AAA games like the soon to be released Crysis 3. Follow straightforward examples to sculpt the terrain, place vegetation, set up lighting, create game sounds, script with Lua and code with C++. Learn to navigate the interface within the CryENGINE 3 Sandbox, the tool used to create AAA games like Crysis 1 and 2, as well as the soon to be released Crysis 3. Learn to create your own worlds by following straight forward examples to sculpt the terrain, place vegetation, set up lighting, create game sounds, and script with the Lua language. The book covers all beginner aspects of game development including an introduction to C++ for non- coders. What will you learn from this book Learn to navigate within the CryENGINE® 3 Sandbox. Learn to create your own worlds by following straightforward examples to sculpt and mould the terrain and place vegetation. Learn to model with the integrated tools available to designers and artist in the CryENGINE3 Sandbox. Learn methods of visual scripting used to create amazingly complex scripted events Learn how to start creating and compile C++ game code to create your own custom game. Learn to use Autodesk Scaleform to create high fidelity 3d heads up displays and menus for the player. Learn how to create your own custom characters and objects for use within the examples. Learn to create your own cut scenes, animations and videos using the power of the CryENGINE3 engine to maximize the output. Learn to use FMOD designer along with the CryENGINE 3 to add sound and music to your game. Explore some of the key performance and optimization strategies for levels and learn to share your content with others. Approach A step by step beginner’s tutorial to creating AAA style games with the complete game creation tool, CryENGINE 3. Who this book is written for This book is written with the beginner and casual developer in mind. The freely available version of the CryENGINE® 3 is used for all examples in this book. Book Details Paperback: 354 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (September 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849692009 ISBN-13: 978-1849692007 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook (09-04-2012) Learning OpenGL ES for iOS (22-09-2012) Mastering Autodesk 3ds Max 2013 (16-10-2012) Core HTML5 Canvas (10-08-2012) Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials (05-01-2012) Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Game Programming in 24 Hours (04-05-2012) Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook (22-10-2012) Pro OpenGL ES for iOS (17-01-2012) Pro Android 4 (06-03-2012) OpenSceneGraph 3 Cookbook (17-04-2012) The post CryENGINE 3 Game Development: Beginner’s Guide appeared first on Wow! eBook - Blog.

Mudbox 2013 Cookbook Posted: 23 Oct 2012 06:38 AM PDT Book Description “Mudbox 2013 Cookbook” covers a variety of techniques that can be used to bring your imagination to life. You will be able to create detailed characters and environments like the ones found in games, movies, and on television. Each recipe is one more building block towards digitally sculpting your ideas into reality. “Mudbox 2013 Cookbook” is written in recipes so that you can refer back to it whenever you seek help. The advanced techniques described in this book cover the whole spectrum of Mudbox’s capabilities. With this book you will learn the foundational techniques in using Mudbox as well as more advanced ones “Mudbox 2013 Cookbook” will guide the reader step by step through the process of creating brushes, sculpting, 3d painting, lighting assets, extracting normal maps, and many other techniques. If a recipe is too advanced for you then you can visit the suggested recipes listed at the end of the recipe to learn supporting techniques. Supporting images are used for readers who understand things more visually. Each recipe is rated for difficulty so that you can find techniques that line up with your skill level. Once you complete the beginner and intermediate recipes you will be able to move on to the more advanced recipes. What will you learn from this book Set up different lighting schemes to bring your characters to life Record videos within Mudbox that can be used to enhance your portfolio, create your own tutorials, or to share your process with others Create custom brushes that will enable you to replicate the look of any real world texture you choose Various ways you can use stencils to quickly bring photo real qualities into your 3D sculpts and textures Learn how to bring your 3D models in and out of Mudbox from Maya, 3D Studio Max, or any other 3D modeling package you use Use a displacement map to sculpt depth into your models Create tiling sculpts so that your extracted texture maps are seamless Create a gold bar by recreating the properties of the real world material Extract Ambient Occlusion maps to replicate the shadowing of the concave surfaces of your sculpt Work seamlessly between Mudbox and Photoshop with layers intact Enhance your scene with depth of field by using either viewport filters or the screen distance filter for use in Photoshop Approach Written in cookbook style, this book offers many recipes to learn digital sculpting with Mudbox. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The book is designed so that you can read it chapter by chapter, or you can look at the list of recipes and refer to them in no particular order Who this book is written for This book is for 3D modelers and texture artists who are, or would like to be, working in the games, movies, product design, television, medical imaging, or advertising industries. By learning the techniques in this book you will be able to create “next gen” assets for the game industry, create realistic creatures and sets for movies, and add the fine details needed for medical images and animations. Whether you are an Environment Artist or a Character Artist there is much to learn from this book. Book Details Paperback: 260 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (September 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849691568 ISBN-13: 978-1849691567 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Pro Android 4 (06-03-2012) OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook (18-06-2012) Learning OpenGL ES for iOS (22-09-2012) Digital Modeling (07-07-2012) Core HTML5 Canvas (10-08-2012) Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook (09-04-2012) WebGL: Up and Running (06-09-2012) Unity 3.x Scripting (19-07-2012) Ubuntu Made Easy, 5th Edition (13-08-2012) SketchUp 7.1 for Architectural Visualization: Beginner's Guide (25-05-2010) The post Mudbox 2013 Cookbook appeared first on Wow! eBook - Blog.

Balsamiq Wireframes Quickstart Guide Posted: 23 Oct 2012 06:35 AM PDT Book Description Balsamiq Mockups is an easy to use, engaging tool for anyone looking to strategize and brainstorm ideas around product design and information architecture. With Balsamiq, you can strategize, create, prototype and present your ideas clearly and effectively to audiences large and small. “Balsamiq Wireframes Quickstart Guide” is a fast paced and easy to follow instructional book that gets you up and running quickly while challenging you to be the best you can be using the tool. With this book in hand, it will take only minutes to present an idea on screen. Wireframing is one of the key steps of effective user interface design and architecture. Finding the right tools to get your thoughts onto the page quickly and clearly is vital to your success. This book will have you on your way in no time. “Balsamiq Mockups Quickstart Guide” will walk you through the entire application in a fast, simple and engaging way. You will be presented with wireframe samples, exercises and real-world examples that will engage, challenge and enable you to become an expert wireframer and Balsamiq user. Whether you are looking to communicate ideas to your team, a client, a product manager, an IT developer, or if you are wireframing for the fun of it, this book is for you. By the time you are finished, you will have mastered the tools to do whatever your mind can think up. The rest is up to you. What will you learn from this book The ins-and outs of the Balsamiq Mockups application How to think about layout and design How to approach wireframing from the user experience perspective How to create simple, clickable prototypes How to communicate your ideas clearly to large, diverse teams How to present your work professionally Where to find valuable resources to expand your knowledge Professional templates to download and build upon, using real-world examples and exercises. Approach This book is a step-by-step guide to learning Balsamiq Mockups and wireframing in general. Written in an engaging, easy to follow style and flow, readers can utilize free, downloadable templates that teach by building upon previous chapters until each lesson is learned and applied, ensuring true learning, not just memorization. Who this book is written for If you are serious about wireframing, designing and communicating your ideas clearly and quickly, then this book is for you. Book Details Paperback: 142 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (September  2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849693528 ISBN-13: 978-1849693523 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume I: NAC Framework Architecture and Design (01-06-2012) Learning Rails 3 (25-07-2012) Architecting Composite Applications and Services with TIBCO (29-09-2012) The Elements of User Experience, 2nd Edition (07-03-2011) Software Systems Architecture (20-05-2011) Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition (29-09-2012) Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 (13-10-2012) Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services, 3rd Edition (12-09-2012) Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial (15-08-2012) Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting (03-12-2011) The post Balsamiq Wireframes Quickstart Guide appeared first on Wow! eBook - Blog.

IBM Websphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud Posted: 23 Oct 2012 06:33 AM PDT Book Description IBM WebSphere® Portal is a cost- effective, scalable, and proven solution for the portal enterprise space. Given the depth and the breadth of WebSphere Portal and the challenges of developing a portal project, you need a book that covers all the nuances of the entire portal project lifecycle. This book accomplishes just that. In this book, we cover topics that range from portal assessment, governance, and architecture, to design and development. These topics are covered not only within these traditional areas, but also within the cloud environment context. Keeping both contexts in mind, several chapters are dedicated to portal and portlet testing, troubleshooting, performance monitoring, best practices, and tuning. The cloud option is also analyzed and discussed for hosting, developing, and publishing portal applications. We also cover Web Experience Factory (WEF) as the tool of choice for portlet development. We take you from the introduction to the development of advanced portlets in an intuitive and efficient manner. We cover not only common topics, such as builders, models, and user interface development, but also advanced topics, such as Dojo builders, Ajax techniques, and WEF performance. Within the WEF space, we cover other topics, which have never been covered before by any other competing book. You will learn how to develop multichannel applications, including web mobile applications and you will learn about the model types available for portlet development, including when and how to utilize them. We also present and discuss numerous aspects and facets of implementing a WEF project and what it takes to successfully deliver them. The richness and the profundity of the topics combined with an intuitive and well-structured presentation of the chapters will provide you with all the information you need to master your skills with the IBM WebSphere Portal project lifecycle and Web Experience Factory. What you will learn from this book Master best practices in building portal environments for high availability Explore Cloud topics as another paradigm for hosting, developing and publishing portal applications Develop Portlets and multichannel applications utilizing WEF Understand the performance benefits of using Dojo and Ajax in WebSphere Portal 7.0 and 8.0 Master how profiling can be used to provide variability for customization, personalization and configuration of portlets and environments Understand the different model types available to WEF developers and learn how to choose the right ones for your portlets Learn how to create web applications to run on iPhone and other mobile devices Approach This book is written in simple, easy to understand format with lots of screenshots and step-by-step explanations. Who this book is for This book is written for any professional involved with a portal project.  Professionals performing roles ranging from project and product management, program director, and architects to any lead role, will benefit from the project related segment of this book. The segment related to Portlet Development will benefit mostly portal developers and architects. Only this section requires some basic knowledge of IBM WebSphere Portal. Book Details Paperback: 474 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (September 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849684049 ISBN-13: 978-1849684040 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012, 2nd Edition (19-10-2012) Developing and Hosting Applications on the Cloud (28-09-2012) Service Virtualization: Reality Is Overrated (18-10-2012) Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 (13-10-2012) SOA Governance in Action (11-08-2012) Mashup Patterns (01-01-2010) Experiences of Test Automation (12-05-2012) Enterprise Software Delivery (04-09-2012) Ultra-Fast ASP.NET 4.5, 2nd Edition (23-08-2012) The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, 5th Edition (01-09-2012) The post IBM Websphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud appeared first on Wow! eBook - Blog.

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