Managed DirectX® 9 Kick Start: Graphics and Game Programming

Chapter 8. Understanding Resources

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Starting with the Resource Class

• Using the Vertex and Index Buffers

• Locking Our Buffers

• Controlling How Buffers Are Locked

• Using Texture Resources

• Locking Textures and Getting Descriptions

• In Brief

Resources are the backbone of rendering complex objects in Direct3D. During the course of this chapter, we will discuss the more advanced features of these resources, including

• Static and dynamic resources

• Updating the buffers included in meshes

• Uses of the various locking flags

• Using unsafe mode for maximum performance