Download or read book Inside DirectX written by Bradley Bargen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take command of DirectX programming features with direct-from-the-source guidance. Written and thoroughly reviewed by members of the DirectX team, this title contains a wealth of previously unpublished information. The CD-ROM contains source code examples and the DirectX Software Development Kit (SDK).
Download or read book Real time Rendering Tricks and Techniques in DirectX written by Kelly Dempski and published by Cengage Learning Ptr. This book was released on 2002 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing explanations on how to implement commonly asked for features using the DirectX 8 API, this text should be of interest to both graphic designers and games programmers.
Download or read book Inside Direct3D written by Peter J. Kovach and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kovach provides an ideal tutorial to the Direct3D APIs and shows how to use them in real gaming applications, with an emphasis on best performance practices. The author shows how to add 3D effects to any application's UI quickly, and demonstrates how to get great performance and impact from the investment.
Download or read book DirectX Complete written by Michael D. Root and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A code-level guide to using DirectX in game and multimedia application development. --
Download or read book Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 11 written by Frank Luna and published by Mercury Learning and Information. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated bestseller provides an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development using DirectX 11. The book is divided into three main parts: basic mathematical tools, fundamental tasks in Direct3D, and techniques and special effects. It includes new Direct3D 11 features such as hardware tessellation, the compute shader, dynamic shader linkage and covers advanced rendering techniques such as screen-space ambient occlusion, level-of-detail handling, cascading shadow maps, volume rendering, and character animation. Includes a companion CD-ROM with code and figures. eBook Customers: Companion files are available for downloading with order number/proof of purchase by writing to the publisher at [email protected].
Download or read book Introduction to 3D game programming with DirectX 9 0 written by and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9 0c written by Frank Luna and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0c: A Shader Approach presents an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development, using real-time shaders with DirectX 9.0. The book is divided into three parts that explain basic mathematical and 3D concepts, show how to describe 3D worlds and implement fundamental 3D rendering techniques, and demonstrate the application of Direct3D to create a variety of special effects. With this book understand basic mathematical tools used in video game creation such as vectors, matrices, and transformations; discover how to describe and draw interactive 3D scenes using Direct3D and the D3DX library; learn how to implement lighting, texture mapping, alpha blending, and stenciling using shaders and the high-level shading language (HLSL); explore a variety of techniques for creating special effects, including vertex blending, character animation, terrain rendering, multi-texturing, particle systems, reflections, shadows, and normal mapping;f ind out how to work with meshes, load and render .X files, program terrain/camera collision detection, and implement 3D object picking; review key ideas, gain programming experience, and explore new topics with the end-of-chapter exercises.
Download or read book Inside Windows 10 written by Onuora Amobi and published by Onuora Amobi. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eBook, Onuora Amobi, former Microsoft MVP for Windows and the editor of www.windows10update.com introduces the reader to Microsoft's newest ecosystem - Windows 10. The author meticulously starts at the beginning and guides you through the evolution of Windows from Windows 7, Microsoft's culture and what it has taken to get Microsoft to this point. Some of what you’ll learn: The evolution of Microsoft – Why Windows 10 was necessary. The new CEO – Satya Nadella’s philosophy and how it’s driving this change Windows 9 – what happened? How come Microsoft skipped this number? Windows 10 – not just a desktop upgrade – a complete ecosystem. Why this is important to know. Just how many versions of Windows 10 are there? Universal Applications are coming – how this will make your life easier. How developing for Windows products is about to get a lot easier. Cortana – Microsoft’s new virtual assistant and how it could change computing. Project Spartan – How Microsoft is attempting to make browsing the web easier. Microsoft’s role in the “Internet of Things” What happened to Windows RT? and much much more… Windows 10 is Microsoft's most ambitious undertaking and you will learn exactly how this new Operating System may change the face of computing forever.
Download or read book Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9 0c A Shader Approach written by Frank Luna and published by Wordware Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0c: A Shader Approach presents an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development, using real-time shaders with DirectX 9.0. The book is divided into three parts that explain basic mathematical and 3D concepts, show how to describe 3D worlds and implement fundamental 3D rendering techniques, and demonstrate the application of Direct3D to create a variety of special effects. With this book understand basic mathematical tools used in video game creation such as vectors, matrices, and transformations; discover how to describe and draw interactive 3D scenes using Direct3D and the D3DX library; learn how to implement lighting, texture mapping, alpha blending, and stenciling using shaders and the high-level shading language (HLSL); explore a variety of techniques for creating special effects, including vertex blending, character animation, terrain rendering, multi-texturing, particle systems, reflections, shadows, and normal mapping;f ind out how to work with meshes, load and render .X files, program terrain/camera collision detection, and implement 3D object picking; review key ideas, gain programming experience, and explore new topics with the end-of-chapter exercises.
Download or read book Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 12 written by Frank Luna and published by Mercury Learning and Information. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated bestseller provides an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development using DirectX 12. The book is divided into three main parts: basic mathematical tools, fundamental tasks in Direct3D, and techniques and special effects. It shows how to use new Direct12 features such as command lists, pipeline state objects, descriptor heaps and tables, and explicit resource management to reduce CPU overhead and increase scalability across multiple CPU cores. The book covers modern special effects and techniques such as hardware tessellation, writing compute shaders, ambient occlusion, reflections, normal and displacement mapping, shadow rendering, and character animation. Includes a companion DVD with code and figures. eBook Customers: Companion files are available for downloading with order number/proof of purchase by writing to the publisher at [email protected]. FEATURES: • Provides an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development using DirectX 12 • Uses new Direct3D 12 features to reduce CPU overhead and take advantage of multiple CPU cores • Contains detailed explanations of popular real-time game effects • Includes a DVD with source code and all the images (including 4-color) from the book • Learn advance rendering techniques such as ambient occlusion, real-time reflections, normal and displacement mapping, shadow rendering, programming the geometry shader, and character animation • Covers a mathematics review and 3D rendering fundamentals such as lighting, texturing, blending and stenciling • Use the end-of-chapter exercises to test understanding and provide experience with DirectX 12
Download or read book Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus written by André LaMothe and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today is the greatest time in history to be in the game business. We now have the technology to create games that look real! Sony's Playstation II, XBOX, and Game Cube are cool! But, all this technology isn't easy or trivial to understand - it takes really hard work and lots of Red Bull. The difficulty level of game programming has definitely been cranked up these days in relation to the skill set needed to make games. Andre LaMothe's follow-up book to Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus is the one to read for the latest in 3D game programming. When readers are finished with Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus-Advanced 3D Graphics and Rasterization, they will be able to create a full 3D texture-mapped, lit video game for the PC with a software rasterizer they can write themselves. Moreover, they will understand the underlying principles of 3D graphics and be able to better understand and utilize 3D hardware today and in the future.
Download or read book Direct3D Rendering Cookbook written by Justin Stenning and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical cookbook that dives into the various methods of programming graphics with a focus on games. It is a perfect package of all the innovative and up-to-date 3D rendering techniques supported by numerous illustrations, strong sample code, and concise explanations. Direct3D Rendering Cookbook is for C# .NET developers who want to learn the advanced rendering techniques made possible with DirectX 11.2. It is expected that the reader has at least a cursory knowledge of graphics programming, and although some knowledge of Direct3D 10+ is helpful, it is not necessary. An understanding of vector and matrix algebra is required.
Download or read book Managed DirectX 9 written by Tom Miller and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managed DirectX was released with the latest version of the core DirectX libraries in DirectX9. It enables developers using the new .NET languages (i.e. C#, VB.NET, etc.) to develop rich multimedia applications with DirectX. Unfortunately the Managed DirectX runtime was released without adequate documentation, and developers are having a hard time figuring out the best way to write managed applications. This book covers how to use the Managed DirectX objects, how they differ from the core DirectX libraries, and how to create these rich multimedia applications in C#. It also covers in depth graphics techniques and the new high-level shader language shipping with DirectX9.
Download or read book Cool Edit Pro2 in Use written by Roman Petelin and published by БХВ-Петербург. This book was released on 2003 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a detailed look at the newest version of one of the most popular software programs for working with music and sound, this guide shows musicians how to record multitrack audio compositions from a microphone or from any other sound signal source. Included are a description of the nature and the methods of using the main audio effects-vibrato, tremolo, delay, flanger, chorus, reverb, distortion, vocoder, and pitch shifting. Various ways of generating and processing sound data are illustrated, such as noise suppression, eliminating the consequences of signal clipping and dynamic and spectral conversion, and using built-in effects and those connected using DX. Also described are Cool Edit Pro's built-in tools for imitating the acoustics of a room using impulse responses, processing compositions with vibrations synchronized with brain waves, extracting sound data from video files and from CD digital audio tracks, converting WAV files into MP3s, and recording compact disks.
Download or read book Real time 3D Rendering with DirectX and HLSL written by Paul Varcholik and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Started Quickly with DirectX 3D Programming: No 3D Experience Needed This step-by-step text demystifies modern graphics programming so you can quickly start writing professional code with DirectX and HLSL. Expert graphics instructor Paul Varcholik starts with the basics: a tour of the Direct3D graphics pipeline, a 3D math primer, and an introduction to the best tools and support libraries. Next, you ll discover shader authoring with HLSL. You ll implement basic lighting models, including ambient lighting, diffuse lighting, and specular highlighting. You ll write shaders to support point lights, spotlights, environment mapping, fog, color blending, normal mapping, and more. Then you ll employ C++ and the Direct3D API to develop a robust, extensible rendering engine. You ll learn about virtual cameras, loading and rendering 3D models, mouse and keyboard input, and you ll create a flexible effect and material system to integrate your shaders. Finally, you ll extend your graphics knowledge with more advanced material, including post-processing techniques for color filtering, Gaussian blurring, bloom, and distortion mapping. You ll develop shaders for casting shadows, work with geometry and tessellation shaders, and implement a complete skeletal animation system for importing and rendering animated models. You don t need any experience with 3D graphics or the associated math: Everything s taught hands-on, and all graphics-specific code is fully explained. Coverage includes The Direct3D API and graphics pipeline A 3D math primer: vectors, matrices, coordinate systems, transformations, and the DirectX Math library Free and low-cost tools for authoring, debugging, and profiling shaders Extensive treatment of HLSL shader authoring Development of a C++ rendering engine Cameras, 3D models, materials, and lighting Post-processing effects Device input, component-based architecture, and software services Shadow mapping, depth maps, and projective texture mapping Skeletal animation Geometry and tessellation shaders Survey of rendering optimization, global illumination, compute shaders, deferred shading, and data-driven engine architecture "
Download or read book Sams Teach Yourself DirectX 7 in 24 Hours written by Robert Dunlop and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guides the reader through the complicated DirectX APIs, allowing the user to create their own DirectX powered applications featuring smooth 3D graphics and sound. In addition to laying the COM-based DirectX foundation, the book covers animation, DirectSound, DirectMusic, Direct3D, control devices, force feedback controls, and multi-user games.
Download or read book Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your PC All in One Desk Reference For Dummies written by Dan Gookin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintaining a PC is important, and troubleshooting a PC can be a challenge. Dan Gookin is great at explaining how to handle common PC problems, and he’s provided a complete, plain-English manual in Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies. Liberally laced with Dan’s famous humor and clear instructions, Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies is divided into six minibooks covering hardware, software, laptops, Internet, networking, and maintenance. Each one gives you some background on what causes common problems, to help you understand what’s wrong as well as how to fix it. You’ll learn to: Troubleshoot both Windows XP and Vista Solve e-mail and Web woes, makes friends with ActiveX, and protect your system from evil software and viruses Resolve router problems, reset the modem, delve into IP addresses, and find the elusive wireless network Investigate startup issues, battery quirks, and power problems Travel safely and efficiently with your laptop Perform regular maintenance and keep good backups Solve problems with disks and printers Find missing files, successfully restore files if something major goes wrong, and pep up your PC The bonus DVD walks you through some of the complex steps discussed in the book and demonstrates tasks like removing a hard drive. There’s a great collection of free and demo software, too. Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies is tech support in a book! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
