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[Ryvola]

Hi everybody,

I try creating a shadow map in SlimDX using this tutorial

http://takinginitiat...shadow-mapping/

Whenever I create Texture2D for the shadow map I get System.NullReferenceException.

The relevant part of the code is here

Texture2DDescription shadowMapTexDesc = new Texture2DDescription()
{
	Width = form.ClientSize.Width,
	Height = form.ClientSize.Height,
	MipLevels = 1,
	ArraySize = 1,
	Format = Format.R32_Typeless,
	SampleDescription = swapDesc.SampleDescription,
	Usage = ResourceUsage.Default,
	BindFlags = BindFlags.DepthStencil | BindFlags.ShaderResource,
	CpuAccessFlags = CpuAccessFlags.None,
	OptionFlags = ResourceOptionFlags.None
};
shadowMap = new Texture2D(device, shadowMapTexDesc);            // the exception is raised here

Anybody knows what I'm doing wrong?
I'm using DirectX11.


Ryvola

[maxest]

Quick guess: Format is wrong to me. Shouldn't that be R32F or D24? I would assume D24 after taking into account you have DepthStencil bind flag.
btw: what does the DX debugger says?

[Ryvola]

Maxest,
thank you for your quick answer.

Quick guess: Format is wrong to me. Shouldn't that be R32F or D24? I would assume D24 after taking into account you have DepthStencil bind flag.

All these formats give me the same exception.

btw: what does the DX debugger says?

Is it this? (I'm still new to DirectX)

An unhandled exception of type 'SlimDX.Direct3D11.Direct3D11Exception' occurred in SlimDX.dll
Additional information: E_INVALIDARG: An invalid parameter was passed to the returning function (-2147024809)

Edit:


I've got additional info from debugger:

D3D11: ERROR: ID3D11Device::CreateTexture2D: If the device interface is D3D10.0 or the driver/hardware are D3D10.0 (regardless of API version),

a Texture2D with sample count > 1 cannot have both D3D11_BIND_DEPTH_STENCIL and D3D11_BIND_SHADER_RESOURCE.

This call may appear to incorrectly return success on older/current D3D runtimes due to missing validation, despite this debug layer message.

[ STATE_CREATION ERROR #99: CREATETEXTURE2D_INVALIDBINDFLAGS ]

Does it mean I can't run it on DX10.0 graphics card?


Ryvola

[Mike.Popoloski]

It says right in the message that a 2D texture with a sample count of greater than 1 cannot have both BindFlags.DepthStencil and BindFlags.ShaderResource set on it.

[Ryvola]

Yes, running this code on DX10.0 hardware doesn't allow to use more than 1 sample count. On DX11 hardware this code runs smoothly.

Thank you for helping me.

Ryvola

[MJP]

You need FEATURE_LEVEL_10_1 to sample a multisampled depth buffer.