Microsoft DirectX SDK Updated (Feb 2006)

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Original post by Mykre We are still waiting for the SDK to be released but this should be coming really soon.

Great! I'd figure it'd be up by tommorow, or very soon after.

Odd the way that parts of it appeared before others [smile]

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I'd figure it'd be up by tommorow, or very soon after.

I concur!

Jack

Awesome!

The SDK has now been updated on the Microsoft Downloads Site... I have updated the original Post

Awesome stuff, thanks for keeping us update Mykre

is there a changelog on msdn for feb2006?
or can someone post it up if they've downloaded the sdk :)

Again, someone's beaten the official announcement [lol]

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Original post by rfterdarc is there a changelog on msdn for feb2006?

From what I can see, the Developer Center hasn't been updated yet, so it could be a few hours before the updates appear..

Jack

Damn, do you people refresh the MSDN page like it was the GDNet Lounge? Somebody always knows the instant the SDK appears.

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Original post by Promit Damn, do you people refresh the MSDN page like it was the GDNet Lounge? Somebody always knows the instant the SDK appears.

I think it's due to RSS broadcasts or something similar. You can sign up for notifications from MS downloads I think.

I remember one of the Visual Studio team "thanking" RSS for killing MSDN downloads the day VStudio2005 was released [lol]

Jack

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Original post by jollyjeffers Again, someone's beaten the official announcement [lol] Quote: Original post by rfterdarc is there a changelog on msdn for feb2006? From what I can see, the Developer Center hasn't been updated yet, so it could be a few hours before the updates appear.. Jack

I can confirm it's "official". There will be an update on the Developer Center this morning. The problem, if you want to call it that, is that the SDK (and other DX downloads) pop up on the RSS feed for recent downloads (feed link below).

The DirectX Developer center, which is my baby, requires a bit more human interaction. I get notified just like you guys once the link goes live (no kidding!). Then I post the additional "What's New" and readme stuff and get it propped to our MSDN people, who review the information to make sure I don't post some terrible political rant or naughty pictures, then it all goes live on MSDN. The update to the DirectX Developer center should be live in about 4-5 hours from now.

And now you know the REST of the story :-)

MSDN Latest downloads link

EDIT: Made the 'latest downloads' a clickable link, it's huge URL broke the page formatting!

The link or rss feed didn't work for me :(,
I tested in opera, netscape 8 and IE..

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Original post by idloco The link or rss feed didn't work for me :(, I tested in opera, netscape 8 and IE..

Hmm, maybe I broke it when I tried to make it a link [headshake]

Jack

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Original post by dgweller I get notified just like you guys once the link goes live (no kidding!).

Just so long as you don't have to rely on being notified by us guys [grin]

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Original post by Anonymous Poster Have they ported DirectX runtime to Mac?

Well that would be an interesting development. I don't think DX runs on Mac's, nor is it planned to.

Jack

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Original post by Anonymous Poster Have they ported DirectX runtime to Mac? From the direct download site: Supported Operating Systems: Macintosh; TabletPC; ....

Oops. We will fix that.

No, the DX runtime is not targeted to the Mac.

Haha!

The downloads page lists a few updates to things like DX10 and D3DX, but doesn't mention MDX updates. Surely more has gone into MDX 2.0...

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Original post by trevaaar The downloads page lists a few updates to things like DX10 and D3DX, but doesn't mention MDX updates. Surely more has gone into MDX 2.0...

The only change to MDX2.0 I've noticed is that Mesh.NumberOfFaces was renamed to Mesh.FaceCount . Other than that, I havn't noticed anything different, though I'm sure some stuff has changed, and something was added. I wonder if the D3DXIntersectTri equivalent is still missing.

[EDIT] looks like Geometry.IntersectTriangle was added, so that's another change :).

MDX 2.0 DirectInput has changed a lot over the last few releases... I have a feeling it's going to get flagged deprecated soon in favor of regular Win32 calls or XInput...

also: http://www.thezbuffer.com/articles/350.aspx