Edit: By "2D graphics", I mean the basics of drawing images/sprites on the screen.
Edit2: DirextX9 has Sprites, but DX11 doesn't. My engine is to support both.
I can see two solutions:
1) Paste images onto mesh quads and draw the quads.
2) Use Direct2D, which seems to be both depreciated? and not very featureful.
Further, tutorials on this issue would be appreciated.
Thanks.
What's the best way to do 2D graphics in DirectX?
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Looks like it's #1. Should be able to manage that, although I still wouldn't refuse a tutorial on how to create a sprite renderer.
Hello.
try this out.http://takinginitiative.net/2011/01/12/directx10-tutorial-9-the-geometry-shader/
try this out.http://takinginitiative.net/2011/01/12/directx10-tutorial-9-the-geometry-shader/
This site has a an example of how to render 2D objects to the screen using directx10 and 11. http://rastertek.com/tutindex.html
Here are some things that lead me to believe Direct2D is a good choice for 2D graphics in DirectX:
http://msdn.microsof...7(v=vs.85).aspx
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http://msdn.microsof...8(v=vs.85).aspx
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http://msdn.microsof...7(v=vs.85).aspx
[color=#2A2A2A][font=verdana,geneva,sans-serif]This topic introduces [/font][color=#ff0000][font=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]Direct2D, a new 2-D graphics API for Windows 7[/font][color=#2A2A2A][font=verdana,geneva,sans-serif]. Direct2D provides Win32 developers with the ability to perform 2-D graphics rendering tasks with superior performance and visual quality.[/font]
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[color=#ff0000][font=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]Direct2D is a hardware-accelerated, immediate-mode 2-D graphics API that provides high performance and high-quality rendering for 2-D geometry, bitmaps, and text.[/font][color=#2A2A2A][font=verdana,geneva,sans-serif] The Direct2D API is designed to interoperate with existing code that uses GDI, GDI+, or Direct3D.[/font]
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- [font=verdana,geneva,sans-serif]Developers of large, enterprise-scale, native applications.[/font]
- [font=verdana,geneva,sans-serif]Developers who create control toolkits and libraries for consumption by downstream developers.[/font]
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http://msdn.microsof...8(v=vs.85).aspx
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[color=#ff0000]Direct2D Quickstart for Windows 8 - http://msdn.microsof...0(v=vs.85).aspx
Direct3D 9 doesn't actually have sprites.
What it has is a wrapper around vertex buffers, index buffers, textures, states and regular geometry. That's exactly all that ID3DXSprite is - a wrapper that draws ordinary textured triangles. It makes calls to the lower-level D3D API using code that you can write yourself, so that option is also there for 10 and 11.
What it has is a wrapper around vertex buffers, index buffers, textures, states and regular geometry. That's exactly all that ID3DXSprite is - a wrapper that draws ordinary textured triangles. It makes calls to the lower-level D3D API using code that you can write yourself, so that option is also there for 10 and 11.
Direct3D 9 doesn't actually have sprites.
What it has is a wrapper around vertex buffers, index buffers, textures, states and regular geometry. That's exactly all that ID3DXSprite is - a wrapper that draws ordinary textured triangles. It makes calls to the lower-level D3D API using code that you can write yourself, so that option is also there for 10 and 11.
Direct3D9 has ID3DXSprite as you stated. Therefore, Direct3D9 has sprites.
Everything in programming is a 'wrapper' for something else, when you think about it.
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