bye bye ffp ? | GameDev.net

Original Post

Mar 26, 2006 at 4:14 PM

Hey, Did a quick read of the changes in d3d10, and one that caught my eye was the elimination of the fixed function pipeline. Can anyone give me an idea of what this means exactly? what functions/methods won't be used anymore? Thanks

Muhammad Haggag

Mar 26, 2006 at 4:22 PM

An Overview of Microsoft's Direct3D 10 API by Jack Hoxley. Section #2 covers the replacement of the FFP with the PP. It'll hopefully answer your question.

Also, you can check the Direct3D 10 documentation if you've installed any of the more recent SDKs.

noNchaoTic

Mar 26, 2006 at 8:36 PM

Pretty much just means all vertex transformation and lighting will now be done via vertex shaders, and the texture sampling stuff done via pixel shaders, there is also a 3rd shader type being introduced "geomentry shaders", i've seen people using these to write tesselators, etc. IIRC you can feed its output back into the pipeline. Anyway, start learning HLSL :-D

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