I am still writing Edition FOUR at the moment.
Actually, i have taken a break from it for a month to write a book for Graphisoft called 'Introduction to Object Making with ArchiCAD" IOMWAC whcih will be a free PDF book for ArchiCAD users, and will be in more than english.
the last one in 2000 was in English, French and German, and for the present one, i would suggest that any hispanics reading urge GS's wishlist to do a Spanish version as that is the most important alphabetic language after english. i hoped they would do it for the last book, but lets hope so for the new one.
By the way, its a total rewrite, and that;s what you might call 'speedwriting' the book writing, the research into the objects, the book layout etc in 20 days. Back to the Cookbook now. IOWAC is with the publisher for checking at the moment.
The IOMWAC is about object making without ArchiCAD (35%) and GDL easy stages (65%) and although it is mostly GDL for beginners, it covers some of the most interesting areas, providing info on Texture mapping, Graphical hotspots, and Solid Geometry.
Back to the Cookbook, i have a problem. To get up to something of the Stature of the previous book, I would have to write 300 pages, and this is a massive undertaking for a solo individual without sponsorship, and paying the full cost of printing up front (and while I am writing i cannot divert to feepaying work without delaying the book). its looking good now, a major rewrite since Jan 2004, but still in the 100 and somethings, a long way to go.
I wonder if people would accept a first level edition with a follow up the year after. printing it in two stages.... easy if I send out all the books, but difficult for the ones sold on Amazon or through OOL. still thinking........
Mark wrote:
I am excited to start working with GDL. I have been exploring the scripts in the aC 8.1 library and reading the GDLmanual that came with AC 8.1. This seems like a good place to start but I would like some more resources. I tried to order the GDL Cookbook from Objects Online but apparently it's out of print until ver. 4 comes out. Does any one know when This will be available? Does anyone have an extra copy of ver.3 lying around ? Any other good resources for learning GDL? Thanks!
Since you live in California, why not consider the 3day seminar in September, in Irvine CA.?? Its not as cheap as the book, but its a lot quicker, and of course i will bring the books with me for the participants. What I have been doing for my GDL course in the University here is printing out as much of the book as exists so far, for distribution to them.
