HLSL Development Cookbook: Implement stunning 3D rendering techniques using the power of HLSL and DirectX 11

Doron Feinstein

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Paperback Jun 2013 224 pages 1st Edition

Doron Feinstein

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Discover powerful rendering techniques utilizing HLSL and DirectX 11
Augment the visual impact of your projects whilst taking full advantage of the latest GPUs
Experience the practical side of 3D rendering with a comprehensive set of excellent demonstrations

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3D graphics are becoming increasingly more realistic and sophisticated as the power of modern hardware improves. The High Level Shader Language (HLSL) allows you to harness the power of shaders within DirectX 11, so that you can push the boundaries of 3D rendering like never before.HLSL Development Cookbook will provide you with a series of essential recipes to help you make the most out of different rendering techniques used within games and simulations using the DirectX 11 API.This book is specifically designed to help build your understanding via practical example. This essential Cookbook has coverage ranging from industry-standard lighting techniques to more specialist post-processing implementations such as bloom and tone mapping. Explained in a clear yet concise manner, each recipe is also accompanied by superb examples with full documentation so that you can harness the power of HLSL for your own individual requirements.

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If you have some basic Direct3D knowledge and want to give your work some additional visual impact by utilizing advanced rendering techniques, then this book is for you. It is also ideal for those seeking to make the transition from DirectX 9 to DirectX 11, and those who want to implement powerful shaders with the High Level Shader Language (HLSL).

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Learn about different light sources in both forward and deferred implementations
Take your dynamic lighting to the next level with shadow map support
Discover a range of post processing effects like bloom and tone mapping
Implement 3D elements such as decals, rain, and more
Harness various screen space techniques that help augment the visual quality of your work

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The Saint Aug 18, 2013

HLSL Development Cookbook In the early 1990's I was responsible for leading the effort to create the DirectX API's and Direct3D at Microsoft. As we all know the technology was tremendously successful and widely adopted, as an unfortunate consequence of that success I was promoted and condemned to many years in management. 18 years later, I finally have the time and opportunity to get back to programming and I find myself in the embarrassing position of having to re-learn the technology I helped to pioneer after many generations of advancement since I last worked with it personally. I've been reading a lot of technical books lately to re-acquaint myself with the modern Direct3D API and I found this book REALLY helpful. Since the 1990's 3D game engine design has evolved tremendously and become an incredibly sophisticated business. I'm very fortunate to have a great foundation to build on but I'm constantly amazed at how advanced and complex the technology has become since my early days in the field. I do not envy the difficulties that new engineers to the field face when trying to master such amazingly sophisticated technology for the first time starting from scratch.I've read several great introductory books on DirectX 11 programming and some great books that explain the overall architecture of the modern Direct3D API's but I found myself frequently bewildered by how all of these powerful features and API's are used in concert to build complete modern game engines until I ran across the HLSL Development Cookbook. This book really put it all together for me in a practical way. I already know C/C++, I already know how to program in Windows and I'm already familiar with DirectX architecture and API's. I just needed to understand how an advanced 3D game engine is constructed using these tools which, this book did a fantastic job of. It is very clearly and concisely written by somebody who obviously had years of experience in the area and understood all of the nuances and shortcomings of various approaches to 3D that have led them to a clear and focused understanding of how to balance graphic realism with performance and coding productivity.The first thing I do when I buy these books is install the sample code and see if it builds and works, because if the sample code doesn't work then the book is often useless to me. I usually end up spending more time and learn more from working with code samples than reading the actual text. In this case, the sample code installed and built correctly on my machine immediately in all build modes using Visual Studio 2010 which it was authored for. When I subsequently opened the samples in Visual Studio 2012 they migrated flawlessly. The samples are great, they are a complete logical progression of all of the fundamental "recipes" one needs to build a reasonably advanced modern 3D game engine. The text does a great job of walking the reader through the examples and explaining WHY they were written that way, which is what I found that I needed most. Here's an example of a paragraph from the book that did wonders to shed light on why a particular problem was solved a certain way in Direct3D when it might seem that there are many reasonable approaches that SHOULD work."Rendering the bokeh highlights uses an interesting feature introduced in DirectX10 which lets us issue a Draw call without knowing how many vertices or primitives we want to draw. DirectX10 lets us issue this kind of Draw call for a vertex buffer that got streamed out and DirectX11 added support for buffers which we use in this recipe. This allows us to issue a Draw call with an amount of primitives equal to the amount of highlights we added to the buffer."Clearly the Direct3D API had evolved a lot over the years to cope with progressively more advanced demands and new hardware capabilities. Somebody NEW to the API may not understand the need for certain features without a context provided by a seasoned Direct3D veteran who had first-hand experience with why the API had evolved a certain way. It helped a lot.This book is not an introduction to DirectX, Windows programming or C/C++, it assumes that the reader already knows or is familiar with that stuff. It gets straight down to showing you exactly how it's done. The samples are high quality and did a great job of helping me put it all together. It was a great addition to my library.

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Chang L. Aug 01, 2013

HLSL Development Cookbook is for professional game developers in advanced shader programming. Beginning game developers can also learn the basic physics in shader from the book. Developers can apply the techniques and codes described in the book to their real games.To design a HLSL shader, a developer needs to understand math, physics, and HLSL syntax, type, as well as function. To understand a HLSL algorithm in physics, a developer needs to understand the light and its effects.This book was well organized. Author paid attention for readers to understand the "know-how" of HLSL shader. One of the most helpful section of the book is "How it works ...", in which the physics and algorithms of HLSL shader were described. To better understand HLSL codes, readers can read this section first, then read section "How to do it ...".Chapter 1 to 3 are about pre-processing. Chapter 4 and 5 are about post-processing. Chapter 6 is about environment processing. Chapters of pre-processing are focused on lighting from basic forward lighting to shadows.In addition to the introduction of ambient, directional, point, spot, and capsule light, the first chapter also introduced projected texture for point and spot light. That is a technique to represent complex light sources by intensity/color patterns. Similar to per-pixel lighting technique, texture lighting may generate wonderful unrealistic lighting effects. HLSL shaders are powerful expression of these effects.Deferred Shading introduced in Chapter 2 is an optimized method for computing of multiple light sources and objects. This Chapter introduced GBuffer method developed in DirectX 11. Hull, Domain, and Geometry shaders in DirectX 11 are also explained in Chapter 2.By adding attenuation in Blinn-Phong light model, shadow mapping technique was introduced in Chapter 3. Author discussed PCF, a shadow-casting technique that is based on projected textures in Chapter 1.Postprocessing is an interesting topic in Chapter 4. HDR, Bloom, DOF and Bokeh have been discussed. One of the most interested solution of HDR is to apply 16-bit float format for image channel and tone mapping by compute shader. The detail discussion of downscale in DirectX 11 is very helpful for HDR programming with HLSL shader. HDR technique has been widely used in modern game programming and will be helpful for new generation console - XBOX One - programming.Chapter 5 discussed screen space ambient, occlusion, sun rays, reflections, and lens flare. An interesting topic is to simulate the lens flare of camera lens that shows a series of colorful shapes around the scene. Movie makers have applied lens flare to generate artistic effects.Chapter 6 discussed dynamic mesh generation, particle system, and depth-based rendering. Particle system can be used to simulate fire and rain. UAV (Unordered Access View) buffer of DirectX 11 was used for buffer read and write in rain simulation.Sample codes of the book are easy to compile and build under Visual Studio 2010/2012 for Windows Desktop. Developers can understand the C++ codes of DirectX 11 and HLSL codes from these samples.

John Mabbott Sep 17, 2014

Given the value that this book provides at the price, I think many DX11 developers should consider it a must-buy. Doron has leveraged his experience working on titles such as GTA V and Max Payne 3 to publish a comprehensive set of lighting, shadowing and post-processing effects that can give your game a professional look.I am most of the way through incorporating the recipes from the book into my engine, and now have robust forward and deferred rendering paths, complete with shadowing and some effects. I would say that I wouldn't have got here without the firm foundation provided by Frank Luna's excellent DX11 book, but I'd say that Doron's work have elevated the look of my game from reasonable to something that looks passably good.There are a few others things to mention that drove my rating of 5 stars:1) All source compiled first time without errors on the latest free MS compiler (Visual Studio Express 2013 for Desktop)2) Pre-compiled binaries were included with the source distribution to allow for samples to be run immediately.3) I emailed the author a question about soft shadows for omnidirectional point lights and got a very prompt and helpful answer that pointed me in the right direction.4) The author makes full use of the latest capabilities of DX11 - hull, domain and compute shaders are expertly applied to take advantage of the latest hardware capability that DX11 exposes.As for cons, I noted that the other reviews mention spelling and grammatical errors in the book. There are a number of these, however this did not detract from my ability to determine the author's intent at all, in other words it was obvious what was trying to be communicated where these mistakes were made. This certainly wasn't enough in my mind to drop the rating by a star, and the value provided by the techniques exhibited is so high.

Michael Schuld Sep 16, 2013

The book tends to be pretty source heavy (HLSL source that is) with very little C++ or DirectX code being shown, so it is definitely recommended to at least have a basic grasp of setting up a simple DirectX 11 application works before tackling the content. On the bright side though, all of the HLSL source is explained in great detail including many diagrams to help get across more of the complicated concepts that aren't necessarily obvious just from reading the code itself. One thing I really got from these descriptions and diagrams was a good explanation of how the half angle optimization for Blinn Specular works. I always knew how to write the code for this technique but never really understood the real reasoning behind why it works until now. Each "recipe" builds on top of the last one, so going through the whole chapter one sample at a time is a great way to build your knowledge of all the standard lighting types and shaders normally used.Once you have a firm grasp of the different shading models and techniques for each light type, Chapter 2 will take you into the much more complicated but also more high performance world of Deferred Shading. Using the new Hull and Domain shader functionality provided by DirectX 11, much of the hard work of optimizing the steps of Deferred Shading are easily handled. All of the complexities of basic Hull and Domain shaders are explained while developing the model, and each light type from the first chapter is then implemented in a single flexible shader that can eventually handle multiple lights (up to 4) in a single rendering pass.After Deferred Shading, the much more advanced and complex techniques of shadow maps, post processing, screen space effects like ambient occlusion and "god rays", and environmental effects like fog and decals are discussed in depth. There is too much content to go in to in a simple review, so why don't you go pick up a copy and see for yourself how great the recipes in this title are and how much you can learn from it! I know I'll be using the techniques in future development.

Patrik Van Ostaeyen Feb 05, 2016

Great to-the-point book.

HLSL Development Cookbook: Implement stunning 3D rendering techniques using the power of HLSL and DirectX 11

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