directx

I'm using WIC and Direct2D (via SharpDX) to composite photos into video frames. For each frame I have the exact coordinates where each corner will be found. While the photos themselves are a standard aspect ratio (e.g. 4:3 or 16:9) the insertion points are not -- they may be rotated, scaled, and skewed. Now I know in Direct2D I can apply matrix transformations to accomplish this... but I'm not exactly sure how. The examples I've seen are more about applying specific transformations (e.g. rotate 30 degrees) than trying to match an exact destination. Given that I know the exact coordinates (A,B

I want to get the adpater RAM or graphics RAM which you can see in Display settings or Device manager using API. I am in C++ application. I have tried seraching on net and as per my RnD I have come to conclusion that we can get the graphics memory info from 1. DirectX SDK structure called DXGI_ADAPTER_DESC. But what if I dont want to use DirectX API. 2. Win32_videocontroller : But this class does not always give you adapterRAM info if availability of video controller is offline. I have checked it on vista. Is there any other way to get the graphics RAM? There is NO way to directly get graphics

I am a developer in DotNet. I want to give skype a possibility to add a webcam simulator and send my bitmap frames to the DirectShow simulator. In this case I can draw my images in my application and on skype I can share this images to my friend. I was on: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd407344%28VS.85%29.aspx but it's no Dotnet and I am not sure what example I should believe in. I also saw: http://directshownet.sourceforge.net/ But as far as I undestand, here I cannot do with this framework what I need, or can I? My question is: What is basically needed to create such an DirectShow

I'm trying to import *.x files to my engine and animate them using OpenGL (without shaders for now, but that isn't really relevant right now). I've found the format reference at MSDN, but it doesn't help much in the problem. So - basically - I've created a file containing a simple animation of a demon-like being with 7 bones (main, 2 for the tail, and 4 for the legs), from which only 2 (the ones in the right leg) are animated at the moment. I've tested the mesh in the DXViewer, and it seems to work perfectly there, so the problem must be the side of my code. When I export the mesh, I get a

I have both Visual Studio 2012 Express for Desktop and for Windows 8, and I wanted to create Direct X applications and games. I know that there is a Windows SDK now, and in VS 2012 exp for win8 the IDE is pre-installed with the SDK (I know that from the new Direct3D project). My question is, if I wanted to develop applications for Windows Desktop (using VS2012exp) does it come Windows SDK or do I need to install Direct X SDK? And how do I know if my graphics card support which version of Direct X? Will any Direct X SDK version work with any Direct X version? As you can see I am a newbie at

If you subdivide a cylinder into an 8-sided prism, calculating vertex normals based on their position ("smooth shading"), it looks pretty good. If you subdivide a cone into an 8-sided pyramid, calculating normals based on their position, you get stuck on the tip of the cone (technically the vertex of the cone, but let's call it the tip to avoid confusion with the mesh vertices). For each triangular face, you want to match the normals along both edges. But because you can only specify one normal at each vertex of a triangle, you can match one edge or the other, but not both. You can compromise