Quite detailed explanation of tesselation (despite it was introduced in DirectX 11.0) - hull shader, domain shader, its application to displacement mapping.Class hierarchy that implements math necessary to do a 3D camera (effectively resulting in control of view and projection matrix) - first person camera, third person camera.Handling input from Xbox 360 Controller connected to the PC using XInput API.Handling input from keyboard and mouse/touch with events of CoreWindow class.

Reading CMO file format exported from it. Model Editor and Shader Designer (available in new Visual Studio, excluding Express Edition).Parallelism using tasks from Visual Studio PPL (Parallel Patterns Library) and it's usage to asynchronously load textures in the background.Initialization and usage of Direct2D 1.1.Overview of what's new in DirectX 11.1.Initialization of Direct3D 11.1 device object, swap chain, depth-stencil surface etc.

Introduction to C++/CX (ref classes, delegates and events).

Math is done with DirectXMath library (the successor of XNA Math).Įach of the chapters describes several loosely coupled topics. NET language (like C#), C++/CX is compiled to native code and the ^ pointer is just a convenient syntax for reference-counting smart pointer to a COM object. The book uses C++/CX - a new language based on C++, with the syntax somewhat similar to C++/CLI (the language is extended by managed pointer operator ^). It introduces new features of DirectX 11.1 and some other technologies available for game developers when writing Metro-style apps for Windows 8.

'DirectX 11.1 Game Programming' is a new book published by Packt Publishing, written by Pooya Eimandar. I keep it for reference, but it probably doesn't reflect my current knowledge and beliefs. Warning! Some information on this page is older than 6 years now.

Direct x 11.1 download