Direct3D

I know I purchased a really good book from Border's on D3D... Specifically d3d8, but it depends w/ all the types of Dx out now... You have d3d8,d3d9,d3d9b and d3d9c :S

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Man0War

Also I want to ask how can I find out whether my graphics card supports D3D9a/b/c ?

Thanks!

DirectX is backward-compatible so it can use your card if it works w DX8. It won't support DX9's new features like vs and ps 2.0.

goto start run and type dxdiag

im pretty sure ur card does though.. even though i dunnow at kinda card u have.. :P

Man0War

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Original post by dimensionX Also I want to ask how can I find out whether my graphics card supports D3D9a/b/c ?

The problem with this is that your graphics card may be driver-compliant with DirectX9, but it doesn't implement *all* of the features that the DX9 specs require. To determine what your graphics card actually supports, run Caps Viewer after you install the SDK.

Since your a seasoned graphics programmer, I think D3D shouldn't be too hard (the hardest part of it for people is usually the graphics theory part, which you already understand). For some good links, try this page. I'd recommend starting at the introductory tutorials, just to get yourself familiar with how everything works in D3D9, as opposed to OGL.

If you're going to buy any D3D books, get the ShaderX2 series (edited by Wolfgang Engel). They are a great source of reference for HLSL (the Nvidia SDK is, also).

Any suggestions on how to break into a game industry as a fresher (but very good 3D math and programming skills) ?. What is the right place to look for game/graphics related jobs ?

I haven't heard a comment on this one.

Thanks!

Have you looked at the Job Listing section of GDNet? I've never really tried it before, so I'm not sure as to how helpful it is.