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Started by jdub December 20, 2008 10:42 PM

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December 20, 2008 10:42 PM

I am a newbie to DirectX and 3D math (I'm taking geometry for math right now). I was wondering whether I should invest time into learning the Fixed Function Pipeline and then go on to shaders later OR... skip FFP entirely and start with HLSL.

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