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DirectX

Microsoft DirectX is a collection of industry-leading graphics technologies designed to deliver the most advanced, stable, and visually impressive graphics experience on Microsoft platforms. DirectX is comprised of best-in-breed runtime technologies, developer tools, graphics programming interfaces and languages. The DirectX standard is supported by a wide variety of consumer and workstation-class graphics software and hardware solutions.

GDC 2008 Presentations Now Available

The presentations from the GDC 2008 developers conference, including audio recordings where possible, are now available on the Presentations page.

August 2008 DirectX SDK Now Available

The August 2008 DirectX SDK download contains the tools needed to build cutting-edge, media-rich, interactive applications. It includes run-times, headers and libraries, samples, documentation, utilities, and support for C++ development.

Gamefest 2007 Slides

We are delighted to now offer you slides and audio recordings from the Gamefest 2007 Conference. Follow the headline link for more details.

DirectX for Everyone

For Business, Enterprise, and IT Pro

Learn more about what business, enterprise, and IT applications are doing with DirectX.

For Consumer Application Developers

Find out more about what consumer application developers are doing with DirectX.

For Gamers

For the latest news on DirectX 10 games and downloads; check out what we have to offer!

For Game Developers

XNA is an industry leading solution for game developers offering: software, services, resources, and communities.

For Workstation Professionals

For 3D animation, workstation and CAD engineering applications.

Direct3D 10 Forum

Adjancency Data
I have seen the word "adjacency" appear both in ID3DX10MESH, and in the D3D10_PRIMITIVE_TOPOLOGY, however in both places it is simply descri... more
Why not sdkmesh?
It's not advice to use .sdkmesh format from DXUT, and to use his own format. I really don't understand why? I think it's really usefull. ... more
D3DXMESH and Directx10
I was about to transistion from a custom simple 3d object to using meshes. So I look through the tutorial and samples for meshes in DX10. It appears t... more
ID3D10InputLayout Release?
Release of the ID3D10InputLayout object is not described in the SDK or shown in its examples. CreateInputLayout takes a pointer as an OUT argument, so... more
Vertex Format - duplication pos?
Consider this output I got from my maya exporter that I wrote, when exporting a textured cube: ---------------------------------------- // Mesh Name ... more

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