On 7/20/2011 2:42 PM, Cory Riddell wrote: > I'm curious, why didn't you suggest your own book?
Modesty? I'll recommend Paul's book for LEARNING. The Red Book is fine, for reference. But having a Toyota Service manual doesn't help you understand how to drive a Camry. > Because it isn't for > version 3+? So little OGL3 is being done right now that I don't feel this is a limitation. > Do you recommend the red book over the superbible? One of > the superbible reviews on Amazon says that they teach their toolkit > rather than the underlying API and that worries me a bit. The red book > reviews are even worse! I was a technical editor on the latest SuperBible and I think it's a good book. It does use some underlying library code to gloss over some fiddly bits and make it possible to actually write understandable demo programs without having to invent fire and blacksmithing on every page. They do explain WHAT the library does and how it does it, so I think it's reasonable. I would not call it a "toolkit". they teach using the OpenGL API, but they use the library code to fill in the boring parts that they're NOT teaching. I'd consider it slightly above the GLUT library -- stuff you have to do, but aren't interested in seeing over and over once you know what it's doing under the hood. I think everyone should own the Red Book, period (and Orange book while you're at it). But I think Distilled and SuperBible are much better for learning. > Cory -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere. [email protected] http://www.alphapixel.com/ Digital Imaging. OpenGL. Scene Graphs. GIS. GPS. Training. Consulting. Contracting. "There is no Truth. There is only Perception. To Perceive is to Exist." - Xen _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
