DirectX 11 is the latest release of Microsoft's collection of APIs which contain features to aid in game development.
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Do textures that are inside a shader resource need to be explicitly released too? (DirectX 11)
I have a ID3D11Texture2D (that I've created manually) inside a ID3D11ShaderResourceView. When I want to Release() the resource view, do I need to Release() the texture that it is inside too? Or is it ...
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Interested in 3D Programming but NOT Game Development (Starting Points?) [closed]
So Im sure yall get TONS of these questions, but usually about making games. Thing is I have ZERO interest in making games. I do however love the idea of 3D Programming. Not really for games...but ...
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What to read after reading Frank Luna's “Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 11” [closed]
I have recently finished the book, what should i go on to in order to continue progression as a game developer? I am particularly interested in the FPS genre. But I am okay with any books not ...
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changing depth stencil state in DirectX11
An example from Frank D Luna's 3d Game Programming with Dx11 shows the following effect technique:
technique11 DrawTech
{
pass P0
{
SetVertexShader( CompileShader( vs_5_0, DrawVS() ) );
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Driver error when using multiple shaders
I'm using 3 different shaders:
a tessellation shader to use the tessellation feature of DirectX11 :)
a regular shader to show how it would look without tessellation
and a text shader to display ...
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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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DirectX11 without window attached?
I just wonder, if it's possible to initialize and use DX11 or DX9 for offscreen rendering only - meaning with no attached window.
My intention is to do some GPU benchmarking before opening actual ...
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How can I render the whole faces instead of only the vertices? [closed]
I'm doing my master thesis in comparing DX9 LoD with DX11 Tesselation LoD. Therefore I use a ShaderManager that calls either the shader for the DX9 implementation, where the model is exchanged by the ...
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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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Creating a simple 2d engine (C++), best way to create an Sprite class?
Since MS announced that they are not give more support to XNA , for me was an opportunity to start to learn DirectX , so i wanted to learn DX11,
i was following this tutorials
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Shaders Working in XNA but not Monogame Win8
Hey so I'm bringing a shader over from XNA to Win8. To test things I'm using josack's tutorial on pixel shaders:
http://blog.josack.com/2011/07/xna-2d-dynamic-lighting.html
I've got it running in my ...
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DXGI and 2+ full screen displays on Windows 7
I am developing a program that needs two full screen Direct3D dispalys. According to the documentation I should create the swap chains in windowed mode and then switch to full screen mode. While this ...
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How to obtain a pointer to the compiled shader in D3D11
My shader creation code looks like this.
std::shared_ptr<IRenderUtility::IVertexShader> D3D11RenderUtility::CreateVertexShader(IShader::INIT_DESC & desc) const
{
HRESULT result;
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Geometry shader worldviewprojection
I'm writing a simple geometry shader to create 3D "primitives" in place of a single point. I am performing all of the world-view-projection conversions within the geometry shader after creating the ...
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Creating Input layouts for different vertex types
I'm still in the planning phase for a hobby abstract renderer, and i'm wondering how i should handle multiple vertex types and different shader inputs. (This is my first graphics project, so cut me ...
