Tutorial Part I
The Basics
​Chap 0/100​: ​Setup a new project​ with Visual Studio 2010​
​- Unicode support
- Runs on Windows 32bits and 64bits platform.
- Memory leak debugging
Chap 1/100: Setting up the 1st main Window
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- Unicode support
- Runs on Windows 32bits and 64bits platform.
- Memory leak debugging
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Chap 2/100: Detect HW and Initializing DX11
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- Setup a High performance Application for real-time 3D rendering using DirectX 11
​Chap 3/100: Application Frame Processing
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- Setup a high performance for real-time 3D rendering using DirectX 11
- All default windows commands now work:
Minimize, maximize, re-seize
Swap: Full Screen Mode
​​Chap 4​/100​: ​Loading a 3D or a 2D Wavefront .obj file
- Adding a Static 2D Object loader: Wavefront .obj file format.
- Adding the Shader Manager and the main Camera
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USING SHADER: MY_SHADER_COLOR
​​Chap 5/100: ​XML CFG File Loader / Simple Terrain Ground
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-Adding a Integrated and fast XML parser for application settings.
-Loading previous 2D object but now with a Texture instead of a Color
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USING SHADER: MY_SHADER_TEXTURE
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​Chap 6/100: Keyboard input / Infinite Terrain Ground
- Adding Keyboard using Direct Input.
- Adding Player Class (to manager the Input State)
(Use left and right keys to rotate wolf in Y axis)
(Use esc key to close window)
-Loading a 3D object with the same texture shader
USING SHADER: MY_SHADER_TEXTURE
​Chap 7/100: 2D (orthogonal projection) for Sprites​ / Sky and Fixed Camera
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- Swap Night Sky and Day Sky
- Replace the blue color with a 3D Sky with Day Texture
- Sprites as banner title are 2D screen objects with orthogonal projection
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USING SHADER: ​MY_SHADER_TEXTURE with alpha channel.
​Chap 8/100: 2D IMAGES (orthogonal projection) for Text Fonts
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- Added also a 3D Sky object with a Night Texture
- Add support for Text Font (part I), orthogonal projection
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USING SHADER:
Text Font: ​MY_SHADER_BLEND_TEXTURE_PIXEL (Texture Shader with alpha channel)
Terrain: ​MY_SHADER_TEXTURE
​​Chap9/100: A Heightmap Terrain in our infinite water world
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- A flat Heightmap Terrainis now our world.
- The infinite terrain is now the water.
USING SHADER:
Text Font: ​MY_SHADER_BLEND_TEXTURE_PIXEL (Texture Shader with alpha channel)
Terrain: ​MY_SHADER_TEXTURE
​​​Chap10/100: ​Exploring the Moon and the Sun (with Billboards)
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- Moon and Sun as high definition Billboard
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USING SHADER:
Text Font: ​MY_SHADER_BLEND_TEXTURE_PIXEL (Texture Shader with alpha channel)
Terrain: ​MY_SHADER_TEXTURE
Monn and Sun: ​MY_SHADER_BLEND_TEXTURE_COLOR
