Advanced Topics

Microsoft?Direct3D?provides a powerful set of tools that you can use to increase the realistic appearance of a 3-D scene. This section presents information about common special effects that can be produced with Direct3D, but the range of possible effects is not limited to those presented here. The discussion in this section is organized into the following topics.

• Vertex Pipeline
• Pixel Pipeline
• Frame Buffer
• Effects
• Direct3D Extentions (D3DX) Meshes
• Direct3D Extentions (D3DX) Line Drawing
• Other Direct3D Extentions (D3DX)
• Asynchronous Notification
• Multihead
• X Files