Hello to all,

First of all I am a new member in this community, been a reader until now, but I actually need some help.
I am a complete newbie in DirectX programming and I am trying to visualize a basic icosahedron on my screen. Despite doing all the steps in the tutorials I have watched/read, it just doesn't show.

The vertices of the figure are properly filled as well as the triangles. I changed the shader to return hard coded color, since i thought that because my vertex dont contain data about the color that may be a problem. I am willing to learn and if someone can see the mistakes I have done and inform me, i'll be really greatful. I have tried to fulfil all the steps needed in order to complete the graphics pipeline, but didn't have luck.

My code is available at https://github.com/xlrrr/SolarSystem

If anything is wrong with the code, please, let me know. Seeing my mistakes will help me learn.

Well in the graphics debbuging i dont really see where the outputs of each graphics pipeline stage should be stored, so i guess that should be a'nothing for output in any of the stages'

i added in my draw method

	deviceContext->Draw(VerticesList.size(), 0);

I have found another issue, when creating the sphere, i wasn't actually calling createShaders() in the constructor.
Despite not calling this, when launching the program it didn't crash my video driver. As far as i'm aware it should have crashed when there were not properly assigned vertex and pixel shader

Create the device with D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG and watch the debug output window. The D3D11 debug layer will report screw-ups with (usually) great detail.

Hi.

I have been working on a similar project (solar system). I skimmed your code and found this:

const float X = .525731112119133606f;
const float Z = .850650808352039932f;

in the method Sphere::createIcosahedron.

I don't think a float can store this much precision (at most 6 decimal digits; check reply by Stephen here).

This may not be a big issue right now and the project might work now but this may make problems later if it is not taken into consideration.

Cheers...

Yeah, note taken.

I think that the problem may be in the beginFrame in the DXRenderer when im using

m_deviceContext->OMSetRenderTargets(1, &m_renderTargetView, m_depthStencilView);

i'm not really sure that I am using the depthstencilview properly