Hardware 3D (C++ DirectX Graphics) Tutorial 49

A bit of a lighter tutorial to catch our breath. In this video we quickly go over some engine improvements / fixes, and cover a few interesting tidbits about how Direct3D works, including a crucial detail of InputLayout.

Topics Covered

• Ability to persist the contents of a RenderTarget to disk as an image file
• Input layouts created with identical element descriptor arrays are not necessarily interchangeable
• Optional compiler warning to flag missing virtual destructors
• Other sundry fixes / enhancements

Video Timestamp Index

• Tutorial 49

Source Code

• 3D GitHub Repo

See also

• Next in series (Tutorial 50)
• Hardware 3D Series (C++ DirectX Graphics)
• Planet Chili Patreon