{"product_id":"9781849694810","title":"DirectX 11.1 Game Programming","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn Detail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirectX is designed to create eye-popping 3-D visuals and immersive sound effects found in many of today's PC games. DirectX 11.1 includes numerous improvements from its previous version. It's designed to be more efficient, leverage the power of today's multi-core processors, and provide support for sophisticated shading and texturing techniques such as tessellation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirectX 11.1 Game Programming brings unprecedented power and flexibility to programmers who want to excel in graphical programs. DirectX 11.1 Game Programming is an introduction to creating interactive computer graphics and games, using Direct3D 11.1. You would be guided through the new features of Direct3D along with XAML to build an extensible multithreaded framework for creating 3D applications and games on the Windows 8 metro style platform.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirectX 11.1 Game Programming explores the techniques to set up a 3D multithreaded framework for metro style graphics programs. You would be guided through the process of extending your framework to utilize the advantages of Direct3D 11.1.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe would then explore Visual Studio Model editor for loading and editing your assets and learn how to render them with the Direct3D pipeline. We will also explore the supporting inputs such as keyboards, pointers, Xbox controllers, and how to render the complete 3D scene using camera, sound, billboard, tessellation, post processors, and parallel libraries, along with supporting XAML. \u003cbr\u003eYou would also learn the different techniques of debugging the program and would be well equipped with everything you need to start programming 3D applications and games with DirectX 11.1 on Windows 8 platforms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApproach\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in step-by-step tutorial format, we will explore the creation of 3D applications and games through the development of a Windows 8 metro style game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho this book is for\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirectX 11.1 Game Programming Written for developers with knowledge of C++ essentails and 3D mathematics who would want to create metro style game on the Windows 8 platform.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirectX 11.1 Game Programming explores Direct3D 11.1 and Microsoft C++ component extensions along with introducing C++ accelerated massive parallelism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Packt Publishing Pvt. Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153604395248,"sku":"9781849694810","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781849694810_p0.jpg?v=1763753455","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781849694810","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}