Direct 3D

This video blog considers if and when you might want to use middleware to write your game for Windows Store and Windows Phone. This blog breaks down middleware options into two buckets, frameworks or toolkits and game engines.

For nearly 20 years, DirectX has been the platform used by game developers to create the fastest, most visually impressive games on the planet. However, you asked us to do more. You asked us to bring you even closer to the metal and to do so on an unparalleled assortment of hardware. You also asked…

In this video blog we talk about two powerful but overlooked features of Visual Studio 2013 that can help to speed up the DirectX development process on both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. We will take a look at the Visual Studio 3D asset viewer and modify our 3D model directly in the viewer. We…

Debugging your first Direct3D app for Windows Phone 8 is as easy as changing the debug mode. This video blog will walk you through navigating your Direct3D Windows Phone app built from the standard Visual Studio template. It also shows you how to change the debug mode to allow you to set breakpoints…

Did you catch the Visual Studio 2013 Launch? (If you missed, it you can see it here, Visual Studio 2013 Launch). Did you see all the cool projects used in the demos? The facial recognition, Visitors, Staff, Travel apps? Wish you could get the source for those projects? Wish no more... MyCompany demo…

While many people think of 3D applications as primarily being games, 3D graphics also bring educational apps to life. Roberto Sonnino, developer of the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, interviews Gokhan Sengun of Netas Telekomunikasyon A.S., who created the Virtual Experiment Laboratory (Sanal Deney…

For //build/ 2012, we wanted to showcase what Windows 8 can offer developers. There are a lot of projects showing off great things like contracts and Live Tiles, but we wanted to show off some of the lesser known features. This project focuses on one of those: stereoscopic 3D with DirectX 11.1.…

Want to write a 3D game for Windows 8, but not sure where to start? In this video, we'll show you the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, which is now available on the Visual Studio Developer Code Samples site for all editions of Visual Studio 2012 that support writing Windows Store apps, including…

Join James Fung from Nvidia as he shows you how to make use of vertex, pixel, and geometry shaders to add visualization to their DirectCompute applications. The following topics will be covered: A Quick explanation of the Direct3D graphics pipeline Vertex and geometry shader overview Binding…

Join Lee Howes, a Senior SDE at ATI/AMD, as he gives you a deep dive into GPU accelerated physics. This lecture explains how DirectCompute can be employed to create solutions simulating physical systems such as fluid and cloth systems. It also covers how to employ some of the libraries powered by…