Over the Christmas break I spent some time porting the built-in XNA effects (BasicEffect, SkinnedEffect, etc.) to native C++ using Direct3D 11. Finding that strangely enjoyable, I went on to make a C++ version of SpriteBatch, and also ported the XNA Primitives 3D sample, built-in state objects, and helper vertex types. And my colleague Chuck Walbourn chimed in with some code for easily loading Direct3D 11 textures.

Get it here: DirectXTK.zip
Supported operating systems:

• Windows 8 Consumer Preview (both Metro and Desktop)
  
• Windows 7
  
• Windows Vista with DirectX 11 update
  

Supported compilers:

• Visual Studio 11 (currently in beta)
  
• Visual Studio 2010 plus the standalone Windows 8.0 SDK (you need the SDK to get the latest version of DirectXMath, which this code depends on)
  

How to use it:

• Unzip, load the solution into Visual Studio, and build it
  
• Link your program with the resulting static lib
  
• Add the Inc folder to your include path
  

To draw sprites: #include "SpriteBatch.h"
#include using namespace DirectX; std::unique_ptr spriteBatch(new SpriteBatch(deviceContext)); spriteBatch->Begin(); spriteBatch->Draw(texture, XMFLOAT2(x, y)); spriteBatch->End();
To draw geometry using BasicEffect: #include "BasicEffect.h"
#include using namespace DirectX; std::unique_ptr effect(new BasicEffect(device)); effect->SetWorld(world); effect->SetView(view); effect->SetProjection(projection); effect->SetTexture(cat); effect->SetTextureEnabled(true); effect->EnableDefaultLighting(); effect->Apply(deviceContext); deviceContext->IASetInputLayout(...); deviceContext->IASetVertexBuffers(...); deviceContext->IASetIndexBuffer(...); deviceContext->IASetPrimitiveTopology(...); deviceContext->DrawIndexed(...);
To draw geometric primitives: #include "GeometricPrimitive.h"
#include using namespace DirectX; std::unique_ptr teapot(GeometricPrimitive::CreateTeapot(deviceContext)); teapot->Draw(world, view, projection, Colors::CornflowerBlue);
See the readme inside the zip for more info.

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