1/11/06: Chad updates UI widgets sample for managed directx beta

A nice set of tutorials from a guy named Chad over at C-Unit.com. There really is very little information about who Chad is and why he has Managed DirectX tutorials but I did find a picture of him painted green and he has a cute dog so now you know as much as I do.

Tutorials

• --Index-- including the usual getting started tutorials.
• Dynamic Buffers - very useful and efficient for particles, 2-d tiles and mesh animation where you need to update vertices on each frame.
• Texture mapping
• Lighting - normally I would include lighting in with the getting started stuff but in this case he discusses why spotlights often don't look like you expect them to.
• Finally a series of terrain rendering tutorials Rendering a height map, Moving a camera around and Adding detail with multitexturing
• Frustum Culling - how to only draw items in the view frutum
• 2d sprites - uses the D3DX Sprite class
• Building your own UI widgets using managed DirectX. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4. Update for Managed DirectX for .Net 2.0 beta.
• Texture Compression, Filters, and Transformations
• Offscreen Surfaces and Screenshots
• Tetris with Managed DirectX