Demonstrates how to manually modify the view matrix using
mouse and keyboard input to create a game style motion
control. This sample is very similar to the "First-Person-Shooter
View Control" sample except this one uses no DirectInput.
Check out the OpenGL source code
page for the OpenGL equivalent of this sample.
This sample demonstrates the three basic types of lights
that are available in Direct3D: directional, spot, and
point. Check out the OpenGL source
code page for the OpenGL equivalent of this sample.
This sample demonstrates how to use point sprites with
Direct3D. Point sprites are hardware-accelerated billboards,
which are capable of being textured. Point sprites are
ideal for creating high-performance particle systems because
you only have to send a single vertex point or point sprite
for each particle instead of four vertices for a regular
billboarded quad. Point sprites also do all the math involved
in view aligning the final quad on the GPU instead of the
CPU. See the Particle
System sample on this page for a more complex example
of their usage. Check out the OpenGL source
code page for the OpenGL equivalent of this sample.
Adding a particle system to your game engine has become
all the rage, but where do you start? Here of course! This
sample demonstrates how to create a particle system class
which uses Direct3D's hardware accelerated point sprites.
To learn more about point sprites, check out the Point
Sprites sample on this page. Check out the OpenGL source
code page for the OpenGL equivalent of this sample.
