Hardware 3D (C++ DirectX Graphics) Tutorial 21

In this three-part tutorial, we take a break from Direct3D api stuff to set up a better system for organizing Drawables and Bindables. Low coupling, high cohesion, and dynamic bullshits for the win.

Topics Covered

Part 1

• Bindable system (things like shaders, vertex buffers, etc.)
• Drawable system (things like the game entities that are drawn; they contain a collection of Bindables)
• Partial protected access inheritance pattern
• Weird quirk of C++ relating to visibility of protected members in the case of inheritance from a templated class
• How to update constant buffers using Map / Unmap

Part 2

• Static collection of per-class Bindable
• SetIndexFromStatic
• Sharing cbuffer between instances of TransformCbuf

Part 3

• Geometric primitives (cone, sphere, prism)
• Geometry-distorting transforms
• More Drawable types
• Factory for drawables with std::generate_n

Video Timestamp Index

• Tutorial 21.1
• Tutorial 21.2
• Tutorial 21.3

Source Code

• 3D GitHub Repo

See also

• Next in series (Tutorial 22)
• Hardware 3D Series (C++ DirectX Graphics)
• Planet Chili Patreon