Career Evolve: Introduction to C++ and DirectX Game Development course

Thursday, 25 February 2016

Introduction to C++ and DirectX Game Development course

If you’re an experienced Game Developer and want to build on your C++ and DirectX skills, up-level your employment options with AAA companies, and expand on the DirectX knowledge you gained in the Introduction to C++ and DirectX Game Development course, now's your chance!

In this first in a series of in-depth C++ and DirectX game development trainings, popular experts Bryan Griffiths and Mickey MacDonald build on the prototype from the previous course and show you how to port old DirectX 11 programs to the new Windows 8 landscape. Explore cube maps and skyboxes, create a worldscape and render images, and make a skydome in DirectX. Take this opportunity to build your engine development and coding skills!

Source Code: https://github.com/ScruffyFurn/SumoDX2

Instructors | Bryan Griffiths - Software Engineer & triOS College Video Game Design and Development Instructor; Michael "Mickey" MacDonald - Microsoft Technical Evangelist

https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/cdirectx-game-development-skyboxes-and-porting-dx11-to-112-8684?l=0ZzNeQH1_2204984382

Introduction / Getting Started

Take a look at where the intro course left off and where this series will go with the prototype. Investigate the new developments that might be useful in Visual Studio 2013, and get a quick peek at the other external tools needed for this course.

DirectX Changes for Windows 8.1 Development

Explore what has changed in the DirectX 11 landscape with the move to Windows 8, and then look at the steps required to port an older DirectX 11 game or program to the new landscape.

Creating Skybox Resources

Learn about cube maps and how to develop a suitable one for use as a skybox. Get familiar with the tools to create the worldscape, render out the required images, and then see how to stitch the images together in another program to create a .dds file.

Creating a Skydome in DirectX

Create the classes required to support the skydome within the framework. Take a look at how to manipulate the Rasterization State and Depth/Stencil State to draw the skydome in an optimized way, plus see other tweaks to make the effect feel more lifelike.

Recommended Resources & Next Steps

Take this opportunity to dive deeper into C++ and DirectX, at your own pace.

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Introduction / Getting Started
DirectX Changes for Windows 8.1 Development
Creating Skybox Resources
Creating a Skydome in DirectX
Recommended Resources & Next Steps

Prerequisites

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