DirectX 11.1 Game Programming

Cover
Copyright
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Table of Contents
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 the Compute Shader
	Summary
Index