Hardware 3D (C++ DirectX Graphics) Tutorial 41

Crazy dynamic buffer system that allows you to define a nested data structure at runtime that stores its data contiguously. The self-imposed requirements of dynamism, data contiguity, and clean intuitive syntax add up to one ambitious system that took a lot of elbow grease to implement. Video is broken up into 3 section, you only need to watch to 1st section (16min) to understand enough to continue on with the tutorials without getting lost.

Topics Covered

• Usage of dynamic buffer system
  • Adding members to layout
  • Creating buffer from layout
  • Accessing buffer members
  • Querying for member existence
  • Getting pointer to member bytes
• Motivation and Design
  • Motivations (dynamic composition, reflection, automatic padding)
  • System architecture diagram walkthrough
• C++ implementation overview
  • X macro system
  • Static lookup Map and ReverseMap
  • Overview of each system class

Video Timestamp Index

• Tutorial 41

Source Code

• 3D GitHub Repo

See also

• Next in series (Tutorial 42)
• Hardware 3D Series (C++ DirectX Graphics)
• Planet Chili Patreon