This brief article describes how to use managed Direct3D to render texture bitmaps with alpha channels and transparency key colours onto vertices in C# with the aid of a MatrixStack.

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Simple Managed DirectX Render Loop

A simple framework for implementing the best possible Managed DirectX render loop for games or simulations written in Microsoft .NET.

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NormalMapCompressor - A tool to automatically compress normal maps

Normal maps are used for realtime 3D rendering (mostly in games) to improve the visual quality, but compressing them makes the 3D content look ugly, this tool helps to fix that problem.

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Extracting still pictures from movie files, with C#

Sample application to extract still pictures from most movie file formats.

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Programming DirectShow applications in C#: A set of tutorials

A collection of tutorials for programming DirectShow in C#.

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Write a Screensaver that Actually Works

A base class for managing screensaver initialization, timing, preview view, and multiple monitor support, the proper way.

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Laser Gesture Recognition

A quick article on setting up a simple, real-time laser gesture recognition application and using it to control Windows Media Player.

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DirectShow.NET

DirectShow for DVD and file playback, capture and sample grabber

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DirectX.Capture Class Library

A .NET class library for capturing video and audio to AVI files.

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DirectX in C# (Only4Gurus.com)

Several techniques of implementing DirectX functionality into C# application will be presented. Their common attribute is an idea of component object model (COM) because DirectX is based on component technology. This paper will be focused on use of DirectX graphical capabilities within the C# code of the Microsoft .NET Framework. Three main techniques will be described.

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Using Managed DirectX to Write a Game - Choosing the Game

Learn how to write your first game, with a movable car, obstacles, high scores and more, all written with the help of Managed DirectX and the .NET framework.

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Building HelloTeapot

This tutorial will walk you through building HelloTeapot, a Managed Direct3D version of the infamous Hello World application.

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BreakOut 3D

I really miss those days when everything was simple and in 2D. But now it’s different, people today must have everything in 3D. So here it is, my version of breakout.

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Working with DirectDraw and Bitmap Images

This month in the C-sharp DirectX column, we will be adding bitmap image support to our game engine.

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Double Buffer Drawing with DirectDraw: Part 1

Because we will be primary focusing on 2D game programming in the first articles, we will use the DirectX7 API which is perfect for its DirectDraw class and simplicity. Don’t worry for not having the right DLL because DirectX8 has full backward compatibility to DirectX7 and the COM object should already be available on your computer if you have DirectX 8 installed.

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Space Breakout - 2D Game Developed using DirectX and C#

GDI+ is a feature rich graphics API that makes sophisticated graphical effects highly accessible to the C# developers.

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