Intro to Game Programming Using DirectX 12 Frank Luna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luna, Frank, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Mercury Learning, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Mathematical Prerequisites

Chapter 1: Vector Algebra

Chapter 2: Matrix Algebra

Chapter 3: Transformations

Direct3D Foundations

Chapter 4: Direct3D Initialization

Chapter 5: The Rendering Pipeline

Chapter 6: Drawing in Direct3D

Chapter 7: Drawing in Direct3D Part II

Chapter 8: Lighting

Chapter 9: Texturing

Chapter 10: Blending

Chapter 11: Stenciling

Chapter 12: The Geometry Shader

Chapter 13: The Compute Shader

Chapter 14: The Tessellation Stages

Topics

Chapter 15: Building a First Person Camera

Chapter 16: Instancing and Frustum Culling

Chapter 17: Picking

Chapter 18: Cube Mapping

Chapter 19: Normal Mapping

Chapter 20: Shadow Mapping

Chapter 21: Ambient Occlusion

Chapter 22: Quaternions

Chapter 23: Character Animation

Chapter 24: Terrain Rendering

Chapter 25: Particle Systems

Chapter 26: Amplification and Mesh Shaders

Chapter 27: Ray Tracing

Appendix A: Introduction to Windows Programming

Appendix B: High Level Shader Language Reference

Appendix C: Some Analytic Geometry

Appendix D: Solutions to Selected Exercises

Bibliography and Further Reading

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed January 20 2026)

ISBN:

1-68392-915-2