Delphi is a viable development environment for graphics-intensive applications such as games. Targeted for intermediate to advanced level Delphi developers, this title highlights how to interface Delphi with Microsoft's DirectX 3, including Direct 3D. The book includes palette management, DIBs, bitmaps, metafiles, collision detection, bitblt techniques, vector graphics, sprite animation, flickerless animation, 3-D graphics, texture mapping, tile-based scrolling map engines, parallax scrolling techniques, optimization techniques, ray casting, rendering, and more. The primary emphasis is on Object Pascal, the Windows API, and assembly language. A CD-ROM includes source code from the book, extra example programs, shareware, and components useful to graphics and game programming.This book is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative guides to using Object Pascal in the development of graphics and game software using Microsoft's DirectX 3, a leading game development environment for Windows.