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Started by Gabriel January 04, 2000 01:49 PM

3 comments, last by Gabriel 24 years, 6 months ago

Gabriel

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January 04, 2000 01:49 PM

What is something good to learn D3D with? Any particular book, source code, anything? and what are the different members of the MATRIX structure? any help is appreciated, thanks

sherman

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January 04, 2000 02:57 PM

I would suggest reading the DirextX SDK documentation itself as most D3D books out there are no less confusing. For practicals, try reverse-engineering the samples provided with the SDK =)

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Sherman

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acw83

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January 04, 2000 07:18 PM

There are a couple of books that cover retained mode, but they all suck. Your best bet is the SDK examples.

vallis

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January 05, 2000 12:28 PM

The best (and I think so far ONLY) D3D IM tutorial in a book is in:

DirectX, RDX, RSX and MMX technology
ISBN: 0-201-30944-0

Theres a lot of cool stuff in the book, a good purchase if you ever see it around (its pretty cheap from amazon too)

mutex

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January 06, 2000 05:37 PM

I''ve found that just messing around with the samples help. Yeah they''re a bit hard to understand but once you know where the rendering code is try doing whatever you want. When I started, I modified it to do stuff like draw more triangles, added lights, etc., it doesn''t have to be complicated. Oh and be sure to read the SDK documentation.