directx-11

Before I go into details I want outline the problem: I use RWStructuredBuffers to store the output of my compute shaders (CS). Since vertex and pixel shaders can’t read from RWStructuredBuffers, I map a StructuredBuffer onto the same slot (u0/t0) and (u4/t4): cbuffer cbWorld : register (b1) { float4x4 worldViewProj; int dummy; } struct VS_IN { float4 pos : POSITION; float4 col : COLOR; }; struct PS_IN { float4 pos : SV_POSITION; float4 col : COLOR; }; RWStructuredBuffer<float4> colorOutputTable : register (u0); // 2D color data StructuredBuffer<float4> output2 : register (t0); // same as u0

All DirectX books and tutorials strongly recommend reducing resource allocations between draw calls to a minimum – yet I can’t find any guidelines that get more into details. Reviewing a lot of sample code found in the web, I have concluded that programmers have completely different coding principles regarding this subject. Some even set and unset VS/PS VS/PS ResourceViews RasterizerStage DepthStencilState PrimitiveTopology ... before and after every draw call (although the setup remains unchanged), and others don’t. I guess that's a bit overdone... From my own experiments I have found that

I'm trying to render to two textures with one pass using C++ directx 11 SDK. I want one texture to contain the color of each pixel of the result image (what I normally see on the screen when rendering a 3D scene), and another texture to contain the normal of each pixel and depth (3 float for normal and 1 float for depth). Right now, what I can think of is to create two rendering targets and render the first pass as the colors and the second pass the normals and depth to each rendering target respectively. However, this seems a waste of time because I can get the information of each pixel's

I'm trying to implement DirectX 11 using SharpDX 2.5 into WPF. Sadly http://directx4wpf.codeplex.com/ and http://sharpdxwpf.codeplex.com/ don't work properly with SharpDX 2.5. I was also not able to port the WPFHost DX10 sample to DX11 and the full code package of this example is down: http://www.indiedev.de/wiki/DirectX_in_WPF_integrieren Can someone suggest another way of implementing? SharpDX supports WPF via SharpDXElement . Take a look in the Samples repository at the Toolkit.sln - all projects that have WPF in their name use SharpDXElement as rendering surface: MiniCube.WPF -

I've just started using the Compute shader stage in DirectX 11 and encountered some unwanted behaviour when writing to an output resource in the Compute shader. I seem to get only zeroes as output which, to my understanding, means that out-of-bound reads has been performed in the Compute shader. (Out-of-bound writes results in no-ops) Creating the Compute shader components Input resources First I create an ID3D11Buffer* for input data. This is passed as a resource when creating the SRV used for input to the Compute shader stage. If the input data never changes then we could release the