This revision of the best-selling 3-D Advanced Game Programming Using DirectX 7.0 focuses on new features of DirectX 8.0, provides a lot of code to help readers understand how to make computer games using advanced multimedia application development platform. Among the topics covered are: * Lighting and shading schemes and multithreading * Networking * Texture mapping * Scene management Along with several examples of algorithms specific target application, complete source code is provided for server-client network of 3-D first-person game that many shows techniques discussed in this book.