Direct3D Rendering Cookbook

Chapter 3. Rendering Meshes

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Rendering a cube and sphere
• Preparing the vertex and constant buffers for materials and lighting
• Adding material and lighting
• Using a right-handed coordinate system
• Loading a static mesh from a file

Introduction

A mesh is technically just a vertex and index buffer that represents a 3D object, and if we look at what we have already covered, we can easily understand this. However, these objects nearly always require a number of additional properties, such as material (surface and lighting properties), textures, submeshes, bones, and animations. This is what Microsoft has done in the past with their ID3DX10Mesh interface; however, this is not available for Direct3D 11 (along ...