Now that the animated mesh lesson is done, I've started on a massive upgrade of the whole website. I've got lists of changes and improvements to make on the various tutorials, much of which was collected from reader input. Thank you to everyone who contributed.

The lessons aren't all going to be updated at once. I'm going to start at the beginning and work my way through them all. So if you refresh the page and things change slightly, don't be too alarmed. You'll be able to tell a page has been updated by the sample image of the program. Updated lessons will show the program in a Vista window. Otherwise it will be XP or have no border.

A couple of major changes:
- All the tutorials except one will be done in windowed mode to make debugging easier.
- The resolution will be increased.
- Certain parts of the code samples will be greatly simplified.
- The Game Development Tutorial will be largly rewritten and improved.
- There will be a separate tutorial for textures.
- Direct3D Basics will make use of index buffers.
- Pixel shaders will be added.

You'll see these changes happen over the next couple of weeks. They'll happen starting with the first tutorials and moving toward the later ones over time.

If you know of anything else that could be improved, let me know and I'll include it on my long list of errata and upgrades.

Over the months I've been getting way too many requests for a lesson on animated meshes.  I've decided to put an end to it by finally writing one.  I've held off doing it in the past because of how complex it is, but I think I've written it in such a way that it won't be too hard.  It's available now for Premium users.

Sorry about the wait.  The beginnings of the Multiplayer Tutorial are now online.  It still isn't done, so you won't see all of it there, but the first four lessons are ready and they'll take you through to the point where you can build a functional chat program.  The rest should be up as soon as it's fully done, which will be in at least a few days.  I won't say when exactly because I never seem to be able to pull it off in time. :P

I've been getting a lot of questions about when the Multiplayer Tutorial will be ready.  It almost is.  I have a few things to touch up and one lesson to rewrite.  This can be a tough subject and I am trying to make it as smooth as possible.  I'm thinking it should be ready to go online this week.

Check out this interesting article on the status of DirectX 10 on techwhack.com.  It appears that the majority of users are still using Windows XP and don't have DirectX 10 capable hardware.

It's been a while since I've started working on my side project, so I figured I would hold to my promise and start writing more tutorials again.  I've begun work on a new Multiplayer tutorial, as it seems that's what is most wanted.

I'm also taking a look at what I should write once I'm done.  Let me know if you have an opinion.

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