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[Evil Steve]

Hi all,

In an effort to reduce the number of pinned topics and keep things condensed and on-topic, I suggest keeping this thread pinned for useful links, tips, links to tutorials and blogs and so on. Useful links and tips will also form part of the forum FAQ, which I'm aware is woefully lacking.

If anyone notices that any links in this topic are dead, shoot me a PM and I'll get them fixed.

So, starting with links from previously pinned topics:

• The old Forum FAQ - By jollyjeffers
• "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" by legalize - An online copy of his D3D9 pipeline book
• Direct3D Programming Tip #1: Getting Started
• Direct3D Programming Tip #2: Use the Documentation
• Direct3D Programming Tip #3: Use Smart Pointers
• Direct3D Programming Tip #4: Check All HRESULTs
• Direct3D Programming Tip #5: Use The Debug Runtime
• Direct3D Programming Tip #6: Link Against The Debug D3DX
• Direct3D Programming Tip #7: Use Smart Resource Locks
• Direct3D Programming Tip #8: Use Find in files… To Locate API Call Examples
• Direct3D Programming Tip #9: Use The Managed Resource Pool

If anyone has any more links to add, post them in this topic.

Cheers,
Steve

[Adam_42]

I found A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011, part 1 interesting.

[xoofx]

I found A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011, part 1 interesting.

The author of this great series maintain a more comprehensive index on his blog: A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011: Index

[kubera]

Mr Chuck Walbourn from MS writes a blog here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/

DirectX and Metro
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/PLAT-755T

[Dawoodoz]

My most common tip is to start with something simple like "DirectX SDK Tutorial07" since a clean start will get you faster to the advanced features seen in bigger examples.

[MotorBully]

Good, The heaven for beginners!

[Starnick]

Hi Folks,

Importing content is always a big thing, I'm sure XNA, SlimDX, or SharpDX users may appreciate this:

AssimpNET - Managed wrapper for the Assimp import library.

The wrapper currently covers the entire C-API that Assimp exposes.

[mrmohadnan]

thanks

[R1cochet]

I found these tutorials to be helpful for DirectX 10 and 11.

http://www.rastertek.com/tutindex.html

http://www.braynzarsoft.net/index.php

[SUN SONS]

Good, The heaven for beginners!

[CtrlAllDelete]

Can somebody post links to tutorials teaching directX 11.0 desktop games using visual studio 2012. I am a total newbie to DX.

[user88]

Can somebody post links to tutorials teaching directX 11.0 desktop games using visual studio 2012. I am a total newbie to DX.

you can find there nice tutorials using Visual Studio 2010. possibly this resources will be useful for VS2012 too.

[Migi0027]

Hello! I have some links that could be very good for a lot of people, here they are:

 

 

http://www.applicachia.com/index.php - Navigate throught the sections on the left of the page

http://www.rastertek.com/tutdx11.html - General

http://www.rastertek.com/tutterr.html - Terrain

http://www.braynzarsoft.net/index.php?p=DX11Lessons - General

http://directxtutorial.com/LessonList.aspx?listid=11 - Starting  Tutorials - Some premium

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_pref01.html - Theoretical and code

http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/hlsl-tutorials - Shaders

http://www.riemers.net/eng/Tutorials/XNA/Csharp/series3.php - General

http://www.gamerendering.com/ - Samples and some Links to free books!

 

I hope you will add them as they could be very useful