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Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume II: Advanced Level Design Concepts with Unreal Engine 3

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:39:10 +0000

# Paperback: 1080 pages
# Publisher: Sams; 1 Pap/Cdr edition (October 2, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0672329921
# ISBN-13: 978-0672329920

Product Description

Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume II: Advanced Level Design Concepts with Unreal Engine 3 is your start-to-finish guide to state-of-the-art Unreal Tournament 3 modding and level design. Here’s everything you need to know to take your game design skills to the next level, creating content with breakthrough depth and interactivity! Your authors aren’t just the world’s #1 Unreal game development trainers: They’ve built the training mods that shipped with Unreal Tournament. Now, working with the full cooperation of Unreal Engine 3’s creators, Epic Games, they introduce innovative, pro-quality techniques you’ll find nowhere else: outstanding solutions for everything from particle effects to physics, materials to cinematics. Packed with tips, hands-on tutorials, and expert insight, Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume II will help you take Unreal Tournament 3 and Unreal Engine 3 to the limit...and then blow right by it!

You’ll find expert tips on

    * Creating advanced materials that leverage the full power of UnrealEd’s Material Editor
    * Bringing levels to life with objects affected by gravity, collisions, and player influence
    * Creating fire, smoke, sparks, and more with Unreal Engine 3’s particle effects system
    * Building custom user interfaces, including Heads-Up Displays (HUDs) that update constantly
    * Using SoundCues to mix, modulate, crossfade, and attenuate sounds
    * Generating real-time camera-based effects, including depth of field, motion blur, and color adjustment
    * Using post process effects to quickly transform a scene’s look and feel without changing existing materials or textures
    * Animating characters and vehicles that move with unprecedented realism
    * Creating in-game cinematics that develop your characters and move your story forward

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Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume I: Introduction to Level Design with Unreal Engine 3

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:29:53 +0000

# Paperback: 912 pages
# Publisher: Sams; 1 Pap/DVD edition (July 31, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0672329913
# ISBN-13: 978-0672329913

Product Description

Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume I: Introduction to Level Design with Unreal Engine 3 is your start-to-finish guide to modding and level design with the world’s hottest new gaming engine: Unreal Engine 3. Here’s everything you need to know to jumpstart your skills and create stunning new content and games for consoles and PCs alike! Your authors aren’t just the world’s #1 Unreal game development trainers: They’ve even built the training modules that shipped with Unreal Tournament 3: Limited Collector’s Edition. Now, working with the full cooperation of Unreal Engine 3’s creators, Epic Games, they introduce every facet of game development–from simple level creation to materials, lighting, and terrain...even advanced level optimization and streaming!

Packed with tips, hands-on tutorials, and expert techniques, Mastering Unreal Technology, Volume I is all you need to create levels that look spectacular and work brilliantly...levels that gamers just can’t stop playing!

You’ll find expert tips on

    * Understanding the game development process from start to finish
    * Planning projects for greater efficiency, faster delivery, and better quality
    * Crafting worlds with stunning beauty and clarity
    * Bringing amazing realism to characters, objects, and props
    * Making the most of Unreal Engine 3’s massively upgraded lighting system
    * Scripting complex gameplay quickly and easily with Unreal Kismet
    * Building animated game assets with Unreal Matinee
    * Testing game performance during live gameplay
    * Optimizing levels by improving the interaction between lights and surfaces
    * Using advanced level streaming to create vast, rich, highly playable levels

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Microsoft Windows 7 In Depth

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:00:49 +0000

# Publisher: Que; 1 edition (September 10, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0789741997
# ISBN-13: 978-0789741998

Product Description

Microsoft®

Windows 7 In Depth

Beyond the Basics…Beneath the Surface…In Depth

Microsoft Windows 7 In Depth is the comprehensive guide to Microsoft's Windows 7 for everyone who's no longer a Windows beginner: corporate, small office/home office, and personal users alike. Top Windows authors Robert Cowart and Brian Knittel have packed this 1,100-page book with intensely useful and practical information that can't be found elsewhere. You can turn here for expert guidance on... " Migrating to Windows 7 as an individual - or rolling it out throughout a business " Making the most of Windows 7's powerhouse media tools " Installing, configuring, and managing Windows 7 networks more quickly and efficiently " Securing Windows 7 PCs against spam, spyware, viruses and other "Net Nasties" " Using the updated Windows 7 interface more efficiently " Troubleshooting and solving Windows 7 problems more rapidly " And much more..

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The Busy Coders Guide to Android Development

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:53:43 +0000

# Paperback: 468 pages
# Publisher: CommonsWare, LLC; Revised & enlarged edition (February 6, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0981678009
# ISBN-13: 978-0981678009

The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development /by Mark L. Murphy (Author) .Android, the next-generation open mobile platform from Google and the Open Handset Alliance, is poised to become a significant player in the mobile device market. The Android platform gives developers a fair bit of control while still supporting a familiar programming language. However, the frameworks, GUI widgets, and development model is different than any other mobile platform out there. That’s where this book comes in.Spanning 466 pages, The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development covers a wide range of Android capabilities and APIs, from creating simple user interfaces, to supporting long-running background processes, through the advanced location tracking and mapping features. Along the way, it covers how to embed the WebKit Web browser in your application, how to have your application use data from other installed applications (and vice versa!) or off the Internet, and how to integrate with the built-in on-device search engine. It will help you more quickly climb the Android learning curve, so you can create the “killer app” you’ve dreamed of…or perhaps just a quick-and-dirty application for you and your friends.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services - Unleashed

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:37:50 +0000

# Paperback: 888 pages
# Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (December 24, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0672330016
# ISBN-13: 978-0672330018

Product Description

As the foundation of the Microsoft Business Intelligence Strategy, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services provides users with faster access to data and even more tools for managing and analyzing data across multidimensional objects (databases, dimensions, cubes).

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed is the ultimate guide for anyone who is planning to use the latest version of Analysis Services. It gives readers insight into the way Analysis Services functions, and explains practical methods for designing and creating multidimensional objects. It also provides valuable insight into the reasons behind the design decisions taken by the product development team. The authors have been involved with Analysis Services from its earliest days. They have documented in detail the internal features of Analysis Services 2008, explaining server architecture, main data structures, data processing, and query resolution algorithms.

    * Discover the new functionality introduced in Analysis Services 2008 including MDX enhancements and new DMV (dynamic memory views)
    * Work with the Business Intelligence Development Studio, the new Dimension Editor, and Aggregation Designer interfaces
    * Enjoy complete coverage of new Shared Scalable Databases scale-out infrastructure
    * Learn the key concepts of multidimensional modeling
    * Explore the multidimensional object model and its definition language
    * Integrate multidimensional and relational databases
    * Build client applications to access data in Analysis Services
    * Unravel the inner workings of the server architecture, including main data structures, data processing, and query resolution algorithms
    * Learn the main concepts of the MDX language and gain an in-depth understanding of advanced MDX concepts
    * Gain a deeper understanding of the internal and external protocols for data transfer, including the XML/A protocol
    * Discover how Analysis Services manages memory
    * Explore the security model, including role-based security, code-access security, and data security

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WPF Recipes in C# 2008: A Problem-Solution Approach

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:36:48 +0000

# Paperback: 700 pages
# Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (September 22, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1430210842
# ISBN-13: 978-1430210849

Product Description

WPF offers amazing new opportunities to .NET programmers in terms of the user interfaces they can deliver to their customers. But this significant technological advance comes with a steep learning curve, requiring the programmer to learn new classes, new syntax, and an entirely new approach to UI development.

Although WPF has been generally available for over a year, commercial take–up has been relatively slow, and the publicly available body of knowledge has been weak in terms of real–world examples and best–practice information.

Using WPF Recipes in C# 2008, you’ll find a simple and straightforward approach to solving the problems you face every day. Each solution contains a complete, working example that demonstrates how to make the best use of WPF. You can use the example as a template to solve your own problem or as a base on which to build a solution tailored to your specific needs.

Packed with well–structured and documented solutions to a broad range of common WPF problems, this book, which presents the only WPF recipes currently published, will be a valuable addition to any C# programmer’s reference library. Examples included provide you with a rich source of information as you begin to learn and will be an invaluable quick–reference guide once you’re a proficient WPF programmer.

The emphasis on solving the day–to–day WPF problems that all programmers face frees you from needing to trawl through weighty programming tomes or sift through API documentation, allowing you to focus on the more interesting and innovative aspects of your project.
What you’ll learn

    * Get hands–on experience applying WPF to real–world business applications.
    * Find quick answers to common problems.
    * Develop a new mindset to UI development and a new approach to implementation from the authors’ experience in graphics.
    * Peruse clear and concise code samples that demonstrate solutions to specific problems.

Who is this book for?

This book will benefit intermediate–to–advanced professional C# programmers who want clearly documented and working code samples that demonstrate solutions to common problems encountered when programming WPF. The authors believe WPF technology is new and complex enough, and their experience is deep enough that their recipes will provide value to all but the most experienced WPF programmers.
About the Apress Recipes Series

Apress Recipes series books are carefully selected compendiums of solutions and techniques to help you solve the difficulties that regularly beset developers when they are learning a new language or technology. The recipes are short, and each provides a step–by–step explanation and working code example that allows you to successfully solve your problems and progress with your project.

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Lynda.com - Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Beyond the Basics DVD

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:32:56 +0000

Lynda.com - Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Beyond the Basics DVD
English | ISO | 2.1Gb
Genre: eLearning

In Premiere Pro CS4 Beyond the Basics, Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Perkins explains how to take video editing from simple nuts and bolts to an art form. He shares tips for shooting video in the field to get the most from a subject and get the best footage for a project. He demonstrates how to build a project through the careful use of cutaways, pacing, and suggestive edits. He covers special effects, color correction, and keying and compositing, integrating all these concepts as he builds a music video project from scratch. Exercise files are included with this course.

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Lynda.com 3ds Max 2010 Lighting and Rendering with Mental Ray

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:28:51 +0000

Lynda.com 3ds Max 2010 Lighting and Rendering with Mental Ray | 739 MB
Released: 12/2/2009 Duration: 05:43 Level: Intermediate
Genre: Video Training

3ds Max 2010 Lighting and Rendering with mental ray explores one of the most powerful toolsets for photorealistic 3D image visualization: the mental ray renderer in 3ds Max.

Aaron F. Ross shows how to use mental ray's combination of materials, lighting, and rendering to achieve a variety of effects, from glossy surfaces to reflections and transparency. He provides an in-depth review of photometrics and the tools used to adjust lighting in 3ds Max, including brightness, intensity, and color temperature along with a wide variety of lighting scenarios. Aaron also devotes time to getting the most out of mental ray's powerful rendering engine and improving render efficiency. Exercise files are included with this course.

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BBC Hiroshima Complete [DVDRip]

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:01:40 +0000

Language: English + Romanian Subtitle
49mins / part | 720 x 416 | XVID | Video bitrate : 1803 kbps | Audio bitrate : 128 kbps 48000 Hz | 1.4 GB | 2 CD
Genre: Documentary

It was the defining moment of the 20th Century – the scientific, technological, military, and political gamble of the world’s first atomic attack. This drama-documentary attempts to do what no other film has done before – to show what it is like to live through a nuclear explosion, millisecond by millisecond.
Set in the three weeks from the first test explosion in New Mexico to the eventual dropping of the bomb, the action takes viewers into the room where the crucial political decisions are made; on board the Enola Gay on her fateful voyage; inside the bomb as it explodes; and on the streets of Hiroshima when disaster strikes. Parallel storylines interweave, unfolding the action from both US and Japanese perspectives, and revealing the tensions and conflicts in the actions and minds of people who were making history. Special effects recreate the reality of the mission – even going inside the workings of the bomb – and archive film replays the horrific aftermath.

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TestOut CCNA 640-802 Certification Training Suite

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:25:15 +0000

Become a Cisco Certified Network Associate and master the knowledge and skills to proficiently install, configure, operate and troubleshoot routed and switched networks through the TestOut CCNA certification training course. LabSim CCNA provides you with the most comprehensive and fully integrated training solution that will prepare you to pass your CCNA exam.

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