{"id":4622,"date":"2018-03-21T11:16:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T17:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2018-03-21T19:44:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T01:44:16","slug":"real-time-rendering-4th-edition-available-in-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/real-time-rendering-4th-edition-available-in-august-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"“Real-Time Rendering, 4th Edition” available in August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

As announced today at the Games Developers Conference by\u00a0CRC Press \/ Taylor & Francis Group (booth 2104, South Hall – I’m told there’s a discount code to be had), we’re indeed finally putting out a new edition of Real-Time Rendering<\/em>. It should be out by SIGGRAPH if all goes well<\/a>. Tomas, Naty, and I have been working on this edition since August 2016. We realized that, given the amount that’s changed in area lighting, global illumination, and volume rendering, that we could use help, so asked Angelo Pesce,\u00a0Micha\u0142 Iwanicki<\/a>, and\u00a0S\u00e9bastien Hillaire<\/a> to join us, which they all kindly and eagerly did. Their contributions both considerably improved the book and got it done.<\/p>\n

If you want me to just shut up and tell you where to pre-order, go here<\/a><\/strong>. You’ll note the lack of cover, and lack of the new three authors. Those’ll get fixed once there’s a more official launch, and official pricing. I suspect the price won’t go down (which is a hint, and you can cancel later if I’m wrong; which reminds me, you should also book a room now for SIGGRAPH<\/a> if you have the slightest chance of going, since you can also cancel up until July 22 without penalty).<\/p>\n

One reason for no cover is that we’re still evaluating them. At the GDC booth you’ll see this artwork used:<\/p>\n

\"fish<\/p>\n

This is a lovely, colorful model by Elinor Quittner<\/a>. You can see the interactive model here<\/a>, and definitely check out the Model Inspector feature on that page by clicking the “I” key (or the “layers” looking icon in the lower right) once the model’s loaded. I love this feature in Sketchfab, that you can examine the various elements. All that said, we’re still examining a number of other cover possibilities. Me, I’m happy we get to show\u00a0off this potential design\u00a0here now.<\/p>\n

Back to the book itself. Let’s look at page count:<\/p>\n