DirectX 11 is the latest release of Microsoft's collection of APIs which contain features to aid in game development.
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Modern Shader Book?
I'm interested in learning about Shaders: What are they, when/for what would I use them, and how to use them. (Specifically I'm interested in Water and Bloom effects, but I know close to 0 about ...
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Different shaders for different objects DirectX 11
I am learning Direct3D 11, and in all basic tutorials I found on shader writing, Vertex and Pixel shaders are written so they transform whole scene same way. Tutorials like render cube with texture...
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The pros and cons - DX9 moving to DX11 render?
We are a "nano" game dev company working on REFUSION.
DX9 renderer is almost done and question is: Should we move it to DX11 or not?
Anyone have experience with this?
Here are some videos from dev ...
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D3D/DXGI handle fullscreen transition
I have a D3D11 application, and I want to add proper fullscreen suport.
Now I can let DXGI switch my window to fullscreen for me, and I'm under the impression that DXGI will take care of everything ...
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Proper vertex buffer use
How're you supposed to use vertex buffers?
Say you have 500 distinct deformable shapes/models in the world (ie you want to be able to change/delete vertices from the models somewhat arbitraily as the ...
