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DOWNLOADS: DirectX 8 Specific

Welcome to the DirectX8 downloads section, from this page you can download all the files and examples that support the DirectX 8 tutorials.

DirectXGraphics:

Lesson 1
8kb
 Getting started with DirectXGraphics
Lesson 2
11kb
 Direct3D Enumeration example
Lesson 3
10kb
 2D Graphics introduction
Lesson 4
29kb
 2D Graphics advanced
Lesson 5
14kb
 Basic 3D Geometry
Lesson 6
21kb
 Drawing Text - custom rasterizers and standard text
Lesson 7
42kb
 Introduction to lighting
Lesson 8
209kb
 Loading pre-created objects
Lesson 9
12kb
 Using index buffers in D3D
Lesson 10
181kb
 3D Animation example
Lesson 11
316kb
 Point sprites and particle effects example
Lesson 12
128kb
 Texture blending and alpha-based effects
Lesson 13
29kb
 Texture Pooling and resource management example
Lesson 14
122kb
 Accessing and manipulating texture memory
Lesson 15
181kb
 Billboarding for special effects
Lesson 16
16kb
 Visibility Testing example
Lesson 17
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Lesson 18
 3.07mb
 3D World Final Piece
Patch 01
147kb
 A necessary patch to get 3D-World running
Lens Flares
82kb
 The demonstration of lens flares in Direct3D8
Collision 3D
103kb
 The VB and C++ code required for calculating collisions in 3D
Smooth Anim
1061kb
 Everything required to set up smoother keyframe animation
Dot3 Bump
139kb
 The Dot-Product 3 bump mapping source code.
Specular
48kb
 The Complete Specular-Lighting demo
Effects
168kb
 Simple Shadows, Simple Reflections and shiny objects - a little demonstration...
Cubic

138kb

Using Cubic Splines to represent a terrain segment
Stencil

78kb

The sample code for showing Overdraw using the stencil buffer
Skinning

58kb

The complete vertex skinning sample code
Cell Shading

1092kb

A featured article and source code on using vertex shaders for cell shading.


DirectXInput:

Keyboard
15kb
 The First DirectXInput lesson, using the keyboard.
Mouse
12kb
 How to gain control of the mouse using DirectInput8
Action Maps

15kb

How to further generalize input from your end-users


DirectXAudio:

Basic Playback
47kb
 The first, basic DirectSound8 application.
Music Playback
20kb
 The basic framework for DirectMusic8 playback.
3D Sound
32kb
 The Simple 3D Audio playback sample
Effects

489kb

How to enrich your gaming environment with real-time sound effects


DirectXShow:

Mp3 Playback
11kb
 Source code for Mp3 Playback
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