DirectX 8 Programming Tutorial

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1. DIRECTX 8 PROGRAMMING TUTORIAL
2. DirectX Tutorial 1: Getting Started
3. What you will need
4. Introduction
5. COM
6. Page Flipping
7. Devices
8. Game Loop
9. Creating Your First Project
10. Summary
11. DirectX Tutorial 2: Drawing a Polygon
12. Introduction
13. Vertices
14. 2D Cartesian Coordinate System
15. 3D Cartesian Coordinate System
16. 3D Primitives
17. Flexible Vertex Format (FVF)
18. Vertex Buffers
19. Colours
20. Summary
21. DirectX Tutorial 3: Rotating 3D Cube
22. Introduction
23. 3D World Space
24. Backface Culling
25. How to make a cube
26. Matrices
27. Summary
28. DirectX Tutorial 4: Full Screen and Depth Buffers
29. Introduction
30. Depth Buffers
31. Full Screen
32. Logging
33. Summary
34. DirectX Tutorial 5: Matrix Transformations
35. Introduction
36. What are matrices and how do they work?
37. How do I use transformation matrices in DirectX?
38. Step 3: Multiply Matrices
39. Summary
40. DirectX Tutorial 6: Textures
41. Introduction
42. What is a Texture?
43. Texture Size
44. Texture Coordinates
45. Texture Mapping
46. Using Textures With DirectX
47. Summary
48. DirectX Tutorial 7: Lighting and Materials
49. Introduction
50. DirectX Lighting vs. Real World Lighting
51. Attributes of a light
52. Types of lighting
53. Materials
54. Normals
55. Implementing lights in DirectX
56. Summary
57. DirectX Tutorial 8: Index Buffers
58. Introduction
59. What is an Index Buffer?
60. Implementing an Index Buffer in DirectX
61. Creating a Terrain
62. Summary
63. DirectX Tutorial 9: Textured Spheres, Cylinders and Cones
64. Introduction
65. How to make a cylinder
66. How to make a cone
67. How to make a sphere
68. HTML Logging
69. Summary
70. DirectX Tutorial 10: Loading Complex Models
71. Introduction
72. 3D Modelling Software
73. Creating a .x file with MilkShape 3D
74. Loading a .x file into your program
75. Scaling makes your object darker?
76. Summary
77. DirectX Tutorial 11: 2D in 3D
78. Introduction
79. Adding Text
80. Steps for 2D in 3D Rendering
81. 2D Camera
82. 2D Objects
83. Texture Transparency
84. Summary
85. DirectX Tutorial 12: Keyboard and Mouse Input
86. Introduction
87. DirectInput
88. Include and Library files
89. The Controls
90. Initialising DirectInput
91. Setting up the keyboard
92. Setting up the mouse
93. Buffered and Immediate Data
94. Getting keyboard data
95. Getting mouse data
96. Using the data
97. Cleaning up
98. Summary
99. DirectX Tutorial 13: Sounds and Music
100. Introduction
101. DirectX Audio and DirectShow
102. Wav, Midi and Mp3 – When should I use what?
103. Include and Library files
104. Setting up DirectX Audio
105. A new class  — CSound
106. Cleaning up
107. Summary