I am trying to get a simple depth shadow mapping algorithm incorporated into my surface lighting shader (2x2 percentage closer filtering). My engine performs an initial depth-only pass, rendering from the light's perspective, then uses the depth map as a shader resource for the next lighting pass. The scene that I have set up is just the ...

I figured it out. I wasn't following the packing rules for some of my constant buffers.

I'm writing the whole thing in C++, using the Direct3D10 SDK. I'm not using the XNA Game Studio.

I have been trying to get a very simple pixel shader going that just applies diffuse lighting ( N dot L ) for a single directional light source. My pixel shader code is as follows: cbuffer cb0 : register(b0) {    float4 vCameraPos;    float4 vGlobalAmbient; }; cbuffer cb1 : register(b1) {    ...

nevermind i figured it out. it's because i'm stupid

when I type in D3DXMatrixDecompose(D3DXVECTOR3*,D3DXQUATERNION*,D3DXVECTOR3*,D3DXMATRIX*) VS2005 gives me this compiler error:  error C2059: syntax error ',' it has a problem with the commas separating the function's parameters?! why is this happening to me?

Thanks so much. I put that code into my project ( the very early stages of what I hope will someday be a game engine ) and it works great.

I have been going through the latest DirectX SDK tutorials for Direct3D 10, and I noticed that the documentation says to use the CDXUTMesh10 class to load .X files as meshes. However, after searching through the DXUT source files, I found that there is no CDXUTMesh10 class, only CDXUTSDKMesh for loading .SDKMESH files in D3D10, and CDXUTXFileMesh ...