Advanced Direct3D tutorials?

Take a look around.

Advanced tutorials in general:

• http://www.shaderx.com/direct3d.net/
  
• http://www.riaz.de/tutorials/d3d.html
  
• http://developer.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=directx
  
• http://www.mvps.org/directx/indexes/dx8gr_articles.htm
  

Those were just a few. The NVidia link has a *ton* of examples to look at.

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I''ve been through those sites a zillion times, without result. I''ve been searching google for weeks, looking for a tutorial on bumpmapping in direct3D using shaders(it should include src). The nvidia site is great, except for the fact that they use that HORRIBLE nVidiaFXBrowser to develop all their examples. I hate looking through hundreds of files and extracy the necessities. I just want an andypike or codesampler.com tutorial on advance d3d techniques. Any ideas?

Regards,
Deficite

I don''t think your going to find a step by step tutorial on these more advanced topics, at least on the web. Check out some advanced dx graphics books. There seems to be a huge gap between beginner matererial and extremely advanced material. Usually the "extremely advanced material" is more theory than practice. However, I''ve found a lot of tutorials on bump mapping in the sdk and on msdn (google search: bump mapping in direct3D.) These seem to be fairly detailed, however I assume you have looked at them already. Perhaps you could post your code if you are having trouble getting it to work?

Your best option would be to get a book on advanced topics. Also about pixel/vertex shaders, have you tried going through the articles by wolfgang engel articles here on gamedev? Also another really good way to learn advanced stuff is to simply redo all teh samples that are provided microsoft with the dx sdk. they have particle systems, vertex blending, bump mapping, volume fog, stencil shadows, enviromental bump mapping, reflections, billboarding, thats a lot of stuff to learn.

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