DirectX is a set of multimedia APIs from Microsoft aimed primarily at game developers. Popular APIs within the DirectX collection include Direct3D, XInput, and XAudio.
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Rendering structure
my question is "What is the best way to structure rendering code".
Is it better to make a class with a render function that iterates through all game objects
based on there name or type and have no ...
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Can you use a struct instead of an array to hold vertices in directx?
So instead of using an array to hold vertices information use a struct instead.
Is this possible, does the Idirect3dvertexbuffer allow it?
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Why DirectInput is not recommended?
I have read that the Windows messages are recommended way over DirectInput to control mouse and keyboard.
From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee416842(v=vs.85).aspx
The ...
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Directx9 Moving a Character on a Terrain [closed]
I have a terrain generated with a Raw file and I want a character to move properly based on heighmaps. Any example ?
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Extract smaller frustum from camera frustum?
Background:
I was thinking of implementing multiselection by performing a frustum culling on a sub-part of the screen.
Problem:
Given total screensize, a rectangle on the screen (pos, size), and ...
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DrawIndexedPrimitive bug
Hello I have problem with DrawIndexedPrimitive function.
I create vertex buffer for each wall like that:
1----2
| |
3----4
I put 1,2,3,4, and then I create index buffer this way:
short * ...
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How should I setup my minecraft-like world rendering for the best performance?
I want to know what technique will give me most fps in game. I have minecraft-like world and I need to display it. Now I have only one cube, created as VBO and if i need to display cube I just display ...
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Skeletal Animation in DirectX
A few weeks back I asked the following question: Are there alternatives to Vertex Tweening?
I was pointed towards Skeletal Animation, or more specifically: Hardware Skinning. While I found quite some ...
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XACT3 problem including the header
I am trying to include the xact3.h header file in a game project but i keep getting some errors related to mmreg.h
#include <xact3.h>
#include <Windows.h>
1>c:\program files\windows ...
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Why is my XInput gamepad press stamp not working?
I'm trying to add basic gamepad input to my c++ DirectX game but i'm having some trouble creating a press stamp (registers the press only the first time it's pressed if button held down).
The entire ...
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DirectX or Opengl? Good resources [closed]
I am attempting to learn DirectX 11 for game programming (In c++).
I want to learn everything from the graphics pipeline and how to begin using DirectX11 to animating 3d graphics (such as characters) ...
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Texture Shaders vs. Pixel/Fragment Shaders?
My question is a simple one.
Functionally, practically, and performance-wise, what are the differences between using a D3DX Texture Shader, and using a Pixel/Fragment Shader rendered with a full ...
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c++ game programming course [closed]
Does some one know some good C++ Game programming course? I've tried lots of tutorial of OpenGL (3.3+). I've done simple games using opengl and glsl... but... game programming is another thing.
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Are there any open-source Direct X code-bases that I can look at to learn from as a beginning Direct X and graphics programming student? [closed]
I'm a third-year university student and I've recently begun studying Direct X 11. Mostly I've been following the samples from the SDK and reading a lot out of the MSDN. Although I have a decent ...
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PIX and Metro apps
I would like to use Pix on a Metro (Win 8) app. However, Pix wants the path to the application, something that Metro apps don't have. Has anybody been able to get Pix working with Metro?
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In DirectX 11, batching primitives for performance, how does this actually work?
I don't seem to be able to understand this. Microsoft says that one of the possible optimizations of for a Direct3D 11 if to batch primitives draw calls. For example in order to draw say 300 triangles ...
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Can not enable IME to capture Chinese characters in SharpDX
Just found that direct integration of IME is blocked in Windows 8, moving on to TSF now.
By now, there is lack of Microsoft's Document about TSF, this will be hard.
I am using SharpDX and the ...
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2D scrolling background sprite, Direct X, and C++
Here is a quick rundown of my problem. I am trying to make a 2D scrolling shooter, using a sprite to render the background. This works fine by itself, it has the scrolling effect I am looking for. The ...
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How do I learn to develop a Direct2D application in SlimDX using C# [closed]
I'm an intermediate web developer who is experienced with C# and I am looking into becoming a game developer and designer. I have decided that I want to develop a simple 2D RPG.
I'm having a hard ...
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Where I can get dinosaurs meshes? [closed]
I´m starting Computer Science in the University and I'm developing a simulation of Jurassic Park, and I need to find dinosaurs and plants meshes for the graphic engine, so i was looking for it but i ...
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Which should I learn: DirectX or XNA? [closed]
I've worked with the Microsoft Foundation Classes(MFC) and now I want to enter the world of game development.But should I start with directX or XNA? I'm hesitant towards DirectX because I feel it ...
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Render just the pixel under mouse cursor in DirectX
I'm having difficulties rendering just a single pixel which is on the defined coords of viewport. I'm using D3DXMatrixPerspectiveOffCenter function, but the result is not what I expected.
Here is ...
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DirectX How to Gernerate Vertices for Diamond Shape and Render it?
How to generate vertices for 3D Diamond Shape in DirectX?
EDIT:
I am creating an application which receive DIAMETER, CROWN, GIRDLE and PAVILION as parameter and render a model of diamond according to ...
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using DirectX to generate a sprite sheet
I am building a site in HTML5 for my client and it must run on the iPad/iPhone (i.e. Safari on iOS).
They want a 3D effect where they have a simple, yet, specific product they want to show on the ...
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simple win32 window wont show [closed]
The program compiles and runs successfully but does not show a window, it simply ends immediately.
#include <Windows.h>
LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc( HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, ...
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Sprite rotation and question about sampler state
I'm not an expert in creating game engines, but I'm doing fine for now. Recently I reached a point that I couldn't solve any of my problems. I have two questions:
I'm using ...
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How to use D3DXIntersectTri function to find intersected point?
How to calculate direction for D3DXIntersectTri function to find intersected point? And after getting the result in Distance how to get that coordinate(XYZ)?
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Passing multiple colors to a pixel shader in DirectX
I have a pixel shader that sets the output color based on the interaction of an input texture, sort of like:
if (case1)
{
output.Color = float4(0, 0, 0, 0);
}
else if (case2)
{
output.Color = ...
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Best approach to depth streaming via existing codec
I'm working on a development system (and game) intended for games set mostly in static third-person views. We produce our scenery by CG and photographic techniques. Our background art is rendered ...
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Can't Load Shaders [closed]
I have a Windows Phone 8 XAML with DirectX project. I have written some code to load textures and shaders to simulate a particle system. The particles render to the DrawingSurface XAML control. ...
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Rendering a simple game and multiple simple geometry [closed]
For a while I have been looking to create a simple 2D game, but I have been lacking in time to create such a thing, recently I have had more time to purse that.
I have been working my way though some ...
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How do I implement my old OpenGL-based gfx_render_triangle_list using DX11?
I am working at a game that has lots of procedural content. I had built a game engine using OpenGL that handles everything needed for creating a basic 2D game, sprites, primitives, blending, polygons ...
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DirectX9 toggling display problem
How can I reset a render target? I am trying to toggle between fullscreen mode and windowed mode but without success. I've tried all the possible combinations in the code below. I am rendering to a ...
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Latency difference between DirectSound and XAudio2
As far as I understand the WDM, DirectSound drivers cannot be hardware accelerated on Windows Vista and newer. Is XAudio2 affected as well?
Or in other terms: in latency terms is it definitely better ...
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D3DXCreateEffect Performance
Current performance analysis shows that D3DXCreateEffect is called many times with different shaders. Between each call, the D3DCompile DLL is being loaded and unloaded. Is there an easy way to keep ...
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Emulate border color texture address mode efficiently
In WinRT the border color texture address mode is not supported.
The best I came up with in emulating the border address mode, is doing this in my pixel shader:
float4 tcol = tex.Sample(texSampler, ...
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How to Render Cylinder with built in function D3DXCreateCylinder in Directx9 with Delphi-Xe2 and JEDI? [closed]
I'm new to Directx and i want to render Cylinder using "D3DXCreateCylinder" function.
I using Delphi Xe2 and JEDI for DirectX9.
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Rotation matrix from OpenGL to DirectX
I have an application which uses openGL and i have to port it to DirectX.
To sum up my issue : How can I port rotation matrix based on a right-handed coordinate system to a left-handed coordinate ...
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Camera frustum calculation coming out wrong
I'm trying to calculate a view/projection/bounding frustum for the 6 directions of a point light and I'm having trouble with the views pointing along the Y axis. Our game uses a right-handed, Y-up ...
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Using DirectX9 within Visual Studio 2012 in Windows 8?
Asking the question here simply because my PC is down for the count for a while and wasn't able to stave a curiosity before that happened.
I picked up a few books about programming Games in DirectX, ...
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My 2d Shader in XNA falls apart the second I put it into Farseer [closed]
I wrote a simple light shader that I tested in a simple 2d spaceship shooter and it worked fine. Once I imported it into my friend's farseer project with rotatable shapes, it doesn't seem to work ...
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Getting Started with a Custom .X file Importer/Loader
I'm building my own C++ DirectX game/engine and I've noticed that .X is no longer really supported past DX9 and I've been looking into converting my 3D model files, .X, .3ds, .COLLADA into binary dump ...
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How do I create a camera for a strategy game?
How do I make a camera for a strategy game? Think something in the style of Warcraft 3, so you can lower the camera angel and view the world in a somewhat 3D format. Do I need to have some coordinate ...
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One or multiple VertexBuffers
I'm currently working on a personal project where I'm trying to load the levels and all of the geometry from the game "Medal of Honor Allied Assault" into my own C# code-base based on SharpDX.
I ...
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Implementing multithreaded loading screens
Ok, I have fairly little multi-threading experience, but i have done a similar thing before without issue...but this has me stumped.
This is in C++, Directx9 Visual Studio...
My game basically runs ...
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How do I improve terrain rendering batch counts using DirectX?
We have determined that our terrain rendering system needs some work to minimize the number of batches being transferred to the GPU in order to improve performance. I'm looking for suggestions on how ...
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Geometry shaders on Surface RT
Can anyone tell me if geometry shaders are supported on the Microsoft Surface RT? On one hand, MSDN makes it sound like the Surface RT supports only feature level 9_1, and geometry shaders are only ...
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Game Institute courses - DirectX version used? (SOLVED)
Which DirectX version is being covered in their game programming course? Anyone who has been through these courses can please tell me?
thanks!
EDIT: Support contacted me back, they still use DX9.
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How can I render multiple windows with DirectX 9 in C++?
I'm trying to render multiple windows, using DirectX 9 and swap chains, but even though I create 2 windows, I only see the first one that I've created. My RendererDX9 header is this:
#include ...
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Why does matrix multiplication lead to different result if it's done on CPU, compared to GPU(shader)?
If I'm calculating a "camera space" on the CPU, by multiplying the view with the projection matrix on the CPU , and afterwards multiplying the world to the result my vertices do not pass to the pixel ...
