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Started by vivek1may June 30, 2016 05:31 AM

3 comments, last by Radikalizm 7 years, 9 months ago

vivek1may

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June 30, 2016 05:31 AM

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Hi I started to study directx12. I don't have any knowledge on prior versions.

I am following this example program HelloWorldTriangle which rendering a triangle. I want to draw a rectangle so,

I changed


Vertex triangleVertices[] =
        {
            { { 0.0f, 0.25f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f } },
            { { 0.25f, -0.25f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f } },
            { { -0.25f, -0.25f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f } }

        };

m_commandList->DrawInstanced(3, 1, 0, 0);


Vertex triangleVertices[] =
            {
                { { 0.0f, 0.25f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f } },
                { { 0.25f, -0.25f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f } },
                { { -0.25f, -0.3f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f } },
                { { -0.25f, -0.2f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f } },

            };

    m_commandList->DrawInstanced(4, 1, 0, 0);

But still draws a triangle with different angle .. Please explain what I have to change to get a rectangle.

It will be really helpful for me if you give some links or books to headstart directx12 ..

Thanks in advance ..

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Hi I started to study directx12. I don't have any knowledge on prior versions.

I am following this example program HelloWorldTriangle which rendering a triangle. I want to draw a rectangle so,

I changed


Vertex triangleVertices[] =
        {
            { { 0.0f, 0.25f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f } },
            { { 0.25f, -0.25f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f } },
            { { -0.25f, -0.25f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f } }

        };

m_commandList->DrawInstanced(3, 1, 0, 0);


Vertex triangleVertices[] =
            {
                { { 0.0f, 0.25f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f } },
                { { 0.25f, -0.25f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f } },
                { { -0.25f, -0.3f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f } },
                { { -0.25f, -0.2f * m_aspectRatio, 0.0f }, { 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f } },

j_uk_dev

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June 30, 2016 09:05 AM

I don't want to discourage you but I think it's better if you start with OpenGL or previous D3D versions as you clearly don't have much experience in the graphics. Otherwise you would take in account used topology ( probably you rendering triangles as your topology ) or you would change it to triangle strip. Adding one more point does not tell D3D to render rectangle. In D3D12_GRAPHICS_PIPELINE_STATE_DESC structure, there's a field primitiveTopologyType but it doesn't have a topology responsible for drawing strips. You may need to call IASetPrimitiveTopology() on your command list adn tell to render triangle strip by passing D3D_PRIMITIVE_TOPOLOGY_TRIANGLESTRIP. Then probably it may work, but once again - if this is your start with 3D graphics, do not start from DX12 or Vulkan. First understand certain concepts with OpenGL and DX9/10/11. Otherwise you will end your journey quicker than you think simply being demotivated but things you cannot get working due to lack of experience.

Khatharr

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June 30, 2016 09:09 PM

DX12 is intended for high-investment/high-performance programming. It's is alternative to DX11 rather than a replacement. Don't make the mistake of thinking that DX12 will give you better performance out of the box; you have to understand what's going on very well in order to make the kinds of changes required to see any improvement. If you're still at this stage of the game then just use DX11 until you have a strong understanding of the pipeline and process. Otherwise you'll spend a lot of extra time just to end up with a slower program.

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j_uk_dev

909

June 30, 2016 09:57 PM

What @Khatharr said is very true not only about DX12, but Vulkan and Metal too. All these APIs exist for exactly same purpose. What's interesting is that indeed, "naive" code written using DX12 and Vulkan will probably be outperformed by equivalent code made with use of an older API. This is because the driver does LOTS of work trying to figure out what you want to do, how you want to do and takes care about parallelism etc. With DX12 you have to take care about it yourself. So it's not only graphics programming experience you need but you need to have knowledge about memory management ( I guess you didn't get yet to the resource transitions, descriptor heaps etc. ), synchronization ( using barriers is actually DIFFICULT even for experienced programmers! ), parallelism ( threading, proper way of distributing your workload, so you're not making a CPU be a bottleneck ).

There's one thing everyone who tries to touch those new APIs should know. Before the driver was doing all the work, but now it's YOU who write the driver. If you're ready for that ( and many programmers indeed are! ) then do it, but otherwise get more experienced. Understand what it takes to actually write such "driver-like" code.

Again, I don't want to discourage anybody. It's quite opposite. Get there, become DX12/Vulkan developer! Just do it following the right path. It's bit like learning for example physics. You're not going to start from learning about relativity etc. right? :) But once you have basics, understanding more complex topics comes more natural and easier :)

Radikalizm

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June 30, 2016 11:41 PM

I feel like there should be more of an emphasis in general on the fact that DirectX 12 and Vulkan are not APIs you want to dive into unless you actually have a need for them, or if you're planning on specifically refining your graphics engine development skills.

Starting with D3D12/Vulkan without any exposure to previous APIs just sets you up for a very very bad time with very bad results in the end (as mentioned above). Building a fully featured D3D12 engine which can outperform an established D3D11 engine is a complex task even for seasoned engineers.

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