Real-Time 3D Rendering with directX and HLSL

Introduction 1 PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO 3D RENDERING 5 Chapter 1 Introducing DirectX 7 A Bit of History 8 The Direct3D 11 Graphics Pipeline 9 Summary 21 Chapter 2 A 3D/Math Primer 23 Vectors 24 Matrices 27 Transformations 31 DirectXMath 35 Summary 41 Chapter 3 Tools of the Trade 43 Microsoft Visual Studio 44 NVIDIA FX Composer 47 Visual Studio Graphics Debugger 53 Graphics Debugging Alternatives 55 Summary 56 Exercises 56 PART II: SHADER AUTHORING WITH HLSL 57 Chapter 4 Hello, Shaders! 59 Your First Shader 60 Hello, Structs! 68 Summary 70 Exercises 71 Chapter 5 Texture Mapping 73 An Introduction to Texture Mapping 74 A Texture Mapping Effect 75 Texture Filtering 81 Texture Addressing Modes 86 Summary 89 Exercises 89 Chapter 6 Lighting Models 91 Ambient Lighting 92 Diffuse Lighting 97 Specular Highlights 105 Summary 114 Exercises 114 Chapter 7 Additional Lighting Models 115 Point Lights 116 Spotlights 124 Multiple Lights 130 Summary 139 Exercises 139 Chapter 8 Gleaming the Cube 141 Texture Cubes 142 Skyboxes 145 Environment Mapping 149 Fog 154 Color Blending 159 Summary 167 Exercises 168 Chapter 9 Normal Mapping and Displacement Mapping 169 Normal Mapping 170 Displacement Mapping 178 Summary 181 Exercises 181 PART III: RENDERING WITH DIRECTX 183 Chapter 10 Project Setup and Window Initialization 185 A New Beginning 186 Project Setup 186 The Game Loop 195 Window Initialization 199 Summary 204 Exercise 204 Chapter 11 Direct3D Initialization 205 Initializing Direct3D 206 Putting It All Together 219 Summary 232 Exercise 232 Chapter 12 Supporting Systems 233 Game Components 234 Device Input 248 Software Services 265 Summary 268 Exercises 268 Chapter 13 Cameras 269 A Base Camera Component 270 A First-Person Camera 277 Summary 281 Exercise 281 Chapter 14 Hello, Rendering! 283 Your First Full Rendering Application 284 An Indexed Cube 306 Summary 314 Exercises 314 Chapter 15 Models 315 Motivation 316 Model File Formats 316 The Content Pipeline 317 The Open Asset Import

Dr. Paul Varcholik is a programming instructor at the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA), a graduate degree program in game development at the University of Central Florida. Before coming to FIEA, Paul was a lead software engineer at Electronic Arts, where he worked on video game titles including Madden NFL Football and Superman Returns. A 20-year software industry veteran, he has taught college courses on software and game development since 1998. Paul has written extensively on topics including robotics, 3D user interaction, and multi-touch interfaces. He is author of the OpenGL Essentials LiveLessons video series on graphics development.