DirectX 11.1 Game Programming Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Say Hello to DirectX 11.1
Chapter 2: Getting Started with HLSL
Chapter 3: Rendering a 3D Scene
Chapter 4: Tessellation
Chapter 5: Multithreading
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Say Hello to DirectX 11.1
• The need for DirectX 11.1
• Why should we target Windows 8?
• The prerequisites
• Introduction to C++/CX
• Lifetime management
• What is a ref class?
• Inheritance
• Delegates and events
• Metro Style apps
• Setting up your first project
• Building your first Metro app
• Working with game time
• Initializing the device
• Connecting to a swap chain
• The render target and depth stencil views
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Getting Started with HLSL
• An introduction to HLSL
• New features of HLSL
• Compiling and linking to shaders
• Buffers in Direct3D
• Constant buffers
• Vertex buffers
• Index buffers
• Textures
• Rendering primitives
• Direct2D 1.1
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Rendering a 3D Scene
• Displaying the performance data
• A short introduction to FPS
• Asynchronous loading
• Introduction to tasks
• Asynchronous resource loading
• Getting started with the Model Editor
• Loading a model from the .cmo format
• Rendering a model
• The input devices we'll need
• Keyboard
• Pointer
• Xbox 360 controllers
• Turn on the camera
• Base camera
• First person camera
• Third person camera
• Composing XAML and Direct3D
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Tessellation
• Hardware tessellation
• The most popular usage of hardware tessellation
• Basic tessellation
• The Hull Shader stage
• The Domain Shader stage
• Tessellating a quad
• Displacement mapping using tessellation
• The normal mapping technique
• The displacement mapping technique
• DirectX graphics diagnostics
• Capturing the frame
• The Graphics Experiment window
• Investigating a missing object
• Disabling graphics diagnostics
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Multithreading
• C++ AMP
• Compute Shader
• C++ AMP versus Compute Shader
• Post-processing
• Implementing post-processing using C++ AMP
• Implementing post-processing using Compute Shader
• Summary

• Index