DirectX3D - The Basics

DirectX3D - Revision Sheets

Well for those of you either new to DirectX3D or a intermidate user, I thought I'd put together a number of study sheets. Which are single A4 pages which cover the paramerters of the various DirectX3D API's and there uses, and the available functions etc. So the would be one of Matrix's, another for the Camera, and one for vertex formats etc....

DirectX3D - Special Effects

With a little bit of creativity and a bit of code you can create some really amazing special effects, some of those effects include 3D Water, Fire, Fog etc. I'll be doing some simple examples/tutorials on some of the special effects that can be generated... it won't be long now before you'll be drooling due to the amazement of how cool they look and how simple it is.

Image Warping

FOG

Fur Tutorial

2D Pixel Fire

Simple 3D Water

DirectX Demo's

	BurningCube	Source Code	Executable Demo
	Grass Field (Req Vertex&Pixel Shaders)	Source Code	Executable Demo
	StarField	Source Code	Executable Demo
	MiniMario (2D DemoLevel)	SourceCode	Executable Demo
	Fractal Flowers (2D Randomness)	SourceCode	Executable Demo
	Plasma	SourceCode	Executable Demo
	Simple Terrain Using Colour HeightMap	SourceCode	Executable Demo
	X-Z Surface Plane Class	SourceCode	Executable Demo
	Simple Ocean Surface	SourceCode	Executable Demo
	SkyBox Demo	SourceCode	Executable Demo
	Object Selection (Mouse)	SourceCode	Executable Demo
	Simple Test Level (Mixing Above Demos)	SourceCode	Executable Demo
	Character/World Demo	SourceCode	Executable Demo
	Quake 2 MD2 Loader/Animation	SourceCode	Executable Demo
	Simple Button User Interface Demo	SourceCode	Executable Demo

DirectX - Ray-Tracing

The era of real-time interactive ray-tracing is here. GPUs with specialist hardware for ray-tracing combined with SDK efeatures are allowing 3-dimensional graphic to move beyond rasterization concepts. Millions of rays can be shot into a scene to create realistic (physically accurate) effects, such as, reflections and caustics.

Of course, the code isn't easy to digest!

Simple Ray-Tracing Triangle

Basic Lighting (Cube)

Procedural Geometry