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Now apparently DrawIndexedInstanced is supported on feature level 9_3 / vs_4_0_level_9_3, but it seems to be crashing for me, does anybody know why this might be happening? I'm definitely not exceeding the primitive, index or texture repeat restrictions, it's a 33 polygon tree drawn 4 times.
The error is a "Unhandled exception at 0x76cbfc56 in XEngine11.exe: 0x0000087C: 0x87c." Weird that there seems to be no description text
Here is an outline of the setup: Perhaps I have set up the input layout incorrectly?
I've tried using TEXCOORD1 and NORMAL1 as the semantics for the instance position in the shader but that didnt work. Also, somebody else at the XNA forums seemed to have a similar problem, but theirs was solved by making sure the semantic index was explicitly typed in the shader, which is not my problem.
I remember this was particularly fiddly to achieve in D3D9. Just hoping it doesn't take too long to figure out for D3D11.
EDIT: I tried changing my index buffer to use 32 bit indices (DXGI_FORMAT_R32_UINT). Now the same crash occurs - at the line where the index buffer is bound to the pipeline.
The error is a "Unhandled exception at 0x76cbfc56 in XEngine11.exe: 0x0000087C: 0x87c." Weird that there seems to be no description text
Here is an outline of the setup: Perhaps I have set up the input layout incorrectly?
// Vertex Shader: normal and texcoord parts snipped
VSOutput VSmain(float3 iPos : POSITION0, float3 iNorm : NORMAL0, float2 iTex : TEXCOORD0 ,float3 iInstPos : POSITION1)
{
float4 worldPos = mul(float4(iPos, 1), World);
worldPos.xyz += iInstPos;
float4 viewPos = mul(worldPos, View);
float4 projPos = mul(viewPos, Proj);
VSOutput output;
output.Position = projPos;
return output;
}
// Input layout
D3D11_INPUT_ELEMENT_DESC desc[] =
{
// { name, index, format, slot, offset, class, steprate }
// stream 0
{ "POSITION", 0, DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32B32_FLOAT, 0, D3D11_APPEND_ALIGNED_ELEMENT, D3D11_INPUT_PER_VERTEX_DATA, 0 },
{ "NORMAL", 0, DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32B32_FLOAT, 0, D3D11_APPEND_ALIGNED_ELEMENT, D3D11_INPUT_PER_VERTEX_DATA, 0 },
{ "TEXCOORD", 0, DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32_FLOAT, 0, D3D11_APPEND_ALIGNED_ELEMENT, D3D11_INPUT_PER_VERTEX_DATA, 0 },
// stream 1
{ "POSITION", 1, DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32B32_FLOAT, 1, D3D11_APPEND_ALIGNED_ELEMENT, D3D11_INPUT_PER_INSTANCE_DATA, 1 },
};
I've tried using TEXCOORD1 and NORMAL1 as the semantics for the instance position in the shader but that didnt work. Also, somebody else at the XNA forums seemed to have a similar problem, but theirs was solved by making sure the semantic index was explicitly typed in the shader, which is not my problem.
I remember this was particularly fiddly to achieve in D3D9. Just hoping it doesn't take too long to figure out for D3D11.
EDIT: I tried changing my index buffer to use 32 bit indices (DXGI_FORMAT_R32_UINT). Now the same crash occurs - at the line where the index buffer is bound to the pipeline.
