Learning Maya 8 Foundation with DVD or More Effective C

Learning Maya 8 Foundation with DVD

Author: Autodesk Maya Press

This exceptional, full-colour Autodesk Maya Press title - produced by Autodesk, the software's creators - uses Sony's full-length animated "Open Season" for the book's all-new hands-on tutorials for Maya 8. By following the step-by-step tutorials, readers will learn the Maya interface and the basics of modeling, texturing, animating, and visual effects using real-world production files from a full-length feature film. The DVD provides further reinforcement with instructor-led tutorial videos and other resources for extended learning.


With this book readers will:

• Become familiar with the Maya User Interface

• Work in 3D space

• Model with NURBS (Spline)

• Model with Polygons

• Set Keyframes and Motion Paths

• Learn to use Trax Non-linear animation

• Apply Forward and Inverse Kinematics

• Deform surfaces

• Set cameras and lights

• Create Shaders and Textures

• Discover rendering techniques

• Explore particles and Dynamics

• Begin to use MEL (Maya Embedded Language)

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More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs

Author: Scott Meyers

Praise for Scott Meyers’ first book, Effective C++:

“I heartily recommend Effective C++ to anyone who aspires to mastery of C++ at the intermediate level or above.”
– The C/C++ User’s Journal

From the author of the indispensable Effective C++, here are 35 new ways to improve your programs and designs. Drawing on years of experience, Meyers explains how to write software that is more effective: more efficient, more robust, more consistent, more portable, and more reusable. In short, how to write C++ software that’s just plain better.

More Effective C++ includes:

• Proven methods for improving program efficiency, including incisive examinations of the time/space costs of C++ language features
  
• Comprehensive descriptions of advanced techniques used by C++ experts, including placement new, virtual constructors, smart pointers, reference counting, proxy classes, and double-dispatching
  
• Examples of the profound impact of exception handling on the structure and behavior of C++ classes and functions
  
• Practical treatments of new language features, including bool, mutable, explicit, namespaces, member templates, the Standard Template Library, and more. If your compilers don’t yet support these features, Meyers shows you how to get the job done without them.

More Effective C++ is filled with pragmatic, down-to-earth advice you’ll use every day. Like Effective C++ before it, More Effective C++ is essential reading for anyone working with C++.

Booknews

For programmers at the intermediate level and above. This sequel to the author's Effective C++ provides methods for improving program efficiency. Coverage includes examinations of the time/space costs of C++ language features; descriptions of advanced techniques (placement new, virtual constructors, smart pointers, reference county proxy classes, and double-dispatching); examples of the impact of exception handling; and treatment of new language features (e.g. bool, mutable, explicit, namespaces, member templates). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)