DirectX 11.1 game programming. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pooya Eimandar.
• Other Names: Eimandar, Pooya
• Contents: Table of Contents; DirectX 11.1 Game Programming; DirectX 11.1 Game Programming; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Downloading the example code; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 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? InheritanceDelegates 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; 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; 3. Rendering a 3D Scene; Displaying the performance data; A short introduction to FPS; Asynchronous loading. Introduction to tasksAsynchronous 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; 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 techniqueDirectX graphics diagnostics; Capturing the frame; The Graphics Experiment window; Investigating a missing object; Disabling graphics diagnostics; Summary; 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.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (146 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 794.81536; COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Games; Computer games -- Programming; Computer games -- Programming; DirectX 11.1; DirectX; GAMES -- Board; Computer games -- Programming; COMPUTERS -- Computer Graphics; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781849694810; 1849694818; 9781849694803
• Related ISBNs: 184969480X; 9781849694803
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 24, 2013).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.