Questions tagged [directxmath]
DirectXMath API provides common linear algebra and graphics math operations to DirectX applications
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How to clip cut-off using different frustrum than that of original camera? How to cut plane by pyramid shape?
SOURCE : http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/Mitchell_LightShafts.pdf
This process is part of creating light draft effect. And I am suggested to do the described process in ...
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Calculate matrix transformation components separately
It is possible to calculate the translation, rotation and scale that were used to build a matrix?
I mean if I have a matrix M can I calculate the rotation, scale, ...
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How can I get projected coordinates of vertex on screen
I want to check picking for faces and for that I need projected X Y coordinates of my vertexes in -1 to 1 range:
For that I multiply my vertex array with matrices and then get projected triangle ...
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2d Scale width and height based on distance
I'm drawing a health bar on top of each player. I transform 3d position to 2d. I would like to draw it smaller when distance increases. Any simple math for that? Let's say bar width is 30 and height ...
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How do I correctly multiply an XMMATRIX by a scalar?
Using DirectXMath and its XMMATRIX structure in C++ and Direct X 11, how does one multiply that matrix structure by a single float scalar?
I want to implement the ...
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Difference between column- and row vector matrix multiplication (vector transform)
Let's say we have a 4-by-4 matrix \$A\$ which represents some transformation.
We can use this matrix to transform a vector in two ways.
\$Ax\$ by assuming \$x\$ is a 4-by-1 column vector.
\$xA\$ by ...
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Can I use memcpy() with XMMATRIX?
I.e. can I do this:
XMMATRIX dxMat;
Matrix myMat;
std::memcpy(&myMat, &dxMat, sizeof(XMMATRIX));
std::memcpy(&dxMat, &myMat, sizeof(XMMATRIX));
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What's the relationship between the actor's pose and shape's pose in PhysX?
I have 2 Meshes and I want to add physics to them. The first is a primitive box, the second is a terrain.
The box and terrain are made with DirectXMath
Using the PhysX library, I made a copy of the ...
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How to rotate camera using mouse?
I'm looking for a basic example of rotating camera using the mouse. the only problem is I'm not sure of how to rotating the camera around it target. should i do this by an algorithm or is there a ...
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how to debug calculating tangent space
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there's problem calculating tangent space and look....
it seems there is no problem with UV code and my shader is 100% no problem. I just copy and pasted tutorial code which works well..
I ...
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Why doesn't TriangleTests::Intersects from DirectXMath work correctly?
I am currently looking through the Introduction to 3D Game Programming with Direct X 11 by Frank Luna and I'm trying to implement the ray-triangle intersections. I already have a ray firing when the ...
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What exactly does XMMatrixPerspective{L,R}H do?
There are generally three functions to create a perspective matrix in DirectXMath, XMMatrixPerspective{L,R}H, ...
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Is there something similar to XMFLOAT2 that has its operators overloaded?
Since XMFLOAT2 is just a structure, I'm sure it does not have operator overloading which is what I need to make things a lot simpler. Is there something like ...
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Copy unaligned XMVECTOR and use the copy?
I know XMVECTOR has to be 16-byte-aligned and therefore shouldn't be a member of a class (unless I ensure the alignment). However, can I do sth like this?
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How does planar shadow projection interact with perspective projection?
This question is about planar shadows as explained in Frank Luna's DX11 book. The author presents the 4x4 shadow matrix, whose bottom right element is n\$\cdot\$L (where n is the plane's normal and L ...
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What is wrong with my terrain lighting?
I've just implemented a simple algorithm to calculate terrain vertex normals and I'm using diffuse and ambient light currently, but for some reason the squares that make up my terrain are visible when ...
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XMMATRIX performance
Dears,
I am facing a performance problem when I try to access cell 42 and 43 in XMMATRIX define in DirectXMath.h. The frames dropped by 100 FPS.
Here is my code:
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Transforming quaternion between coordinate systems [duplicate]
Working in DirectX (with DirectXMath objects): If I have the rotation of an object relative to some coordinate space as quaternion Q, and I have a transformation matrix tx from that coordinate space ...
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Simulating aircraft movement with DirectX 9 [closed]
How would I go about simulating a planes movement in DirectX 9 using transforms (i.e. matrices).
For example flying around an open space. When it moves it faces the direction it is going and ...
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