I m rolling a deferred shader pipe, and due to the need to keep the G-buffers in a unified format a need to compress attributes is needed. I ve sadly been unable to find some good information on how ...

I ve started at the beginning, and my code will capably display the grand total of some text. I ve been adding support for sprites. The trouble that I ve run in to, is that it doesn t seem to ...

I have been attempting to build HLSL shader support into VLC player. I have hit a brick wall due to lack of utility methods in d3d9.h in MingW to load a .fx file and compile the shader. So under ...

In the shadow map sample provided by Microsoft I ve noticed an issue where shadows are not properly projected when thin geometry is projected at high angles, see here the shadows being projected, ...

I have a sphere with per-vertex normals and I m trying to derive the texture coordinates for the object using the algorithm: U = Asin(Norm.X) / PI + 0.5 V = Asin(Norm.Y) / PI + 0.5 With a polka dot ...

I m trying to render 6 spot lights to create a point light for a shadow mapping algorithm. I m not sure if I m doing this right, I ve more or less followed the instructions here when setting up my ...

I m currently working on a project using C++ and DirectX9 and I m looking into creating a light source which varies in colour as time goes on. I know C++ has a timeGetTime() function, but was ...

Hello and sorry for the obscure title :} I`ll try to explain the best i can. First of all, i am new to HLSL but i understand about the pipeline and stuff that are from the fairy world. What i`m ...