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DirectX, Terrain Editor and happy holidays Posted: 2010.08.10

I started learning DirectX 10, as I'll be using it for my master thesis. Because of this, in the following year I'll be sharing here resources and valuable findings for people also interested in this topic. Right now, I'm on the very beginning and I can recommend unfinished book, written by few gfx programming gurus, that is available for free as wiki page. It's called (surprise, surprise) Programming Vertex, Geometry, and Pixel Shaders. From what I've read so far, it has book-like content, mainly theory that's explained in rather straightforward way. Targeted at DirectX 10, it contains some code and pseudo code to illustrate concepts, with a healthy dose of pictures :] Many people recommend chapter on lighting, written by Jack Hoxley, as a good treatment on the subject.

Recently, I used the free time of holidays and finished Terrain Edtior, the simple heightmap editor I wrote about in earlier news. Whole project (exe+src) can be downloaded from here TerrainEditor.zip (2.2 MB, zip, downloads: 335) or its description page. I also made short video clip, which shows some of Terrain Editor features and explains user interface. It's intended for auto-promotional purposes, as well as for learning the process of capturing video, editing it, synchronizing with sound, adding special effects, publishing on web etc. It's my third video, and the progress is visible :]



On a side note, I had great holidays so far, very relaxing and regenerating, there was much "integration" (as we like to call in polish the process of bonding with others) and rejoicing :D Slot Art was very nice and Woodstock was truly fantastic - I highly recommend those two to anyone, especially if you want to experience power of youth, peace, love & tolerance & "integration" from the first hand =) Quite recently I was also on third instance of Zjazd Tworcow Gier (I want to officially kill people from polish gamedev who don't use english names for geek events), I met there interesting people and had great time. If only presentations would be more informative and whole event would be better organized..

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