Intermediate - Advanced Level Users.
Includes CD-ROM.
In this smorgasbord of DirectX interfaces, components and programming paradigms, the book discusses and provides real world programming examples and covers every DirectX component that is active and usable. The book includes background materials for understanding DirectX programming, emphasising topics that have the widest appeal, such as the higher-level 3D graphics topics and the DirectX 3D Utility Library.
The book covers all the new features and development tools in the DirectX 8.1, plus the CD-ROM includes all the C++ source code from the book and the Microsoft DirectX 8.1 SDK.