3D Game-Engine Development with DirectX 12 in C++ in 21 Days : A Hands-On Course in D3D12 Pipelines, Resources, Command Lists, Shaders, and Real-Time Rendering
Language: English
Published by Independently Published Sep 2026, 2026
- Softcover
- New
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, GermanyAHA-BUCH GmbH
AbeBooks seller since August 14, 2006
Condition: New
£ 40.41
Quantity: 2 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Neuware.
Seller Inventory # 9798175698894
- Title
- 3D Game-Engine Development with DirectX 12 in C++ in 21 Days : A Hands-On Course in D3D12 Pipelines, Resources, Command Lists, Shaders, and Real-Time Rendering
- Author
- Mohammad Saqib
- Publisher
- Independently Published Sep 2026
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798175698894
- Item weight
- 919 grams
- Dimensions
- 235x191x28 mm
- Series
- Book 33 of 33: Learn Programming in 21 Days
Twenty-one days. One renderer. Every picture in the book drawn by the program you wrote.
Direct3D 12 is not a hard API to read. It is a hard API to start: nothing works until nine things are right at once, and when one is wrong the program runs, the card draws, and the picture is wrong with nothing printed.
This book starts them one at a time. On Day 1 you have a device, a command list and a triangle in a PNG -- and no window, because a window is three hundred lines of Win32 that teach nothing about graphics. By Day 14 you walk through a torch-lit stone hall with real shadows and normal-mapped stone. By Day 21 Emberforge is a 480-kilobyte folder that runs on a machine with no SDK.
Everything in it was run. 427 figures across 21 chapters, 216 of them frames Emberforge rendered and wrote to disk itself -- not one screen grab. 194 listings, every one compiled. 58 output blocks, captured not typed. 21 engine snapshots, one a day, each building on its own, so a day that misses can be diffed against the one before.
YOUR 21-DAY PATH
Day 1 - Your First Picture: a device, a command list, and a triangle in a PNG.
Day 2 - A Window, and the Swap Chain: three buffers, a fence, and a picture on the screen.
Day 3 - Vertices, Indices, and the Input Assembler: upload heaps, the input layout, and a pipeline state.
Day 4 - Matrices, Constant Buffers, and the Spin: world, view and projection, and a cube that turns.
Day 5 - Depth, and Which Triangle Wins: a depth buffer, so distance decides what you see.
Day 6 - Textures, Descriptor Heaps, and Samplers: mip maps, sampler state, and every texel made in code.
Day 7 - The Frame Loop, Properly: three frames in flight, and the first milliseconds.
Day 8 - Meshes, and Building the Hall: eight meshes in one pair of buffers.
Day 9 - Normals and the First Light: the normal matrix, and why scaling breaks a normal.
Day 10 - Point Lights, and the Torches: four lights in one block, three falloff models compared.
Day 11 - Materials and the Root Signature: descriptor tables you laid out, and six real materials.
Day 12 - The Camera You Drive: raw mouse input, and a scripted path that renders the book.
Day 13 - The Hall Casts a Shadow: a depth-only pass, and the two ways bias goes wrong.
Day 14 - Rough Stone, Polished Gold: tangents, normal maps, roughness, metalness and GGX.
Day 15 - Passes, and Resources That Know What They Are: the frame as a list, each resource tracking itself.
Day 16 - The Torches Get Hot: a float target, a bright pass, a blur, ACES and gamma.
Day 17 - Three Thousand Embers the CPU Never Touches: compute shaders, UAVs, and a dispatch grid that fits.
Day 18 - Four Hundred Crates, One Draw Call: one instanced call, and a cull that counts what it drops.
Day 19 - The Hall, in a File: a text format, and the nine digits a float really needs.
Day 20 - The Engine Times Itself: GPU timestamps, a warm-up, and a median of twenty-one.
Day 21 - A Folder Somebody Else Can Run: a static CRT, a debug layer off, and no SDK needed.
WHO IT IS FOR. A C++ programmer who has not written graphics before, or who knows some OpenGL or Direct3D 11 and wants to know why 12 looks so different. You need pointers, structs and a compiler; Day 4 builds the linear algebra. You need Windows, Visual Studio and a card at feature level 11_0 -- and nothing else installed: no engine, no framework, no library and no downloaded assets, because every texture is a function and every mesh is a loop.
Download book source code from: {GitHub}/{mohammadnsaqib}
494 pages, in colour.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping rates from Germany to U.S.A.
| Item | 7 to 10 business days | 5 to 7 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 29.89 | £ 38.43 |
Payment methods
- Bank Wire Transfer
- Check
- Paypal
Store description
Das Unternehmen AHA-BUCH GmbH: Seit der Gründung von AHA-BUCH im Juli 2005 ist unser Hauptziel, zufriedenen Kunden so schnell und so preisgünstig wie möglich ihren Bücherwunsch zu erfüllen. Unsere Firma beschäftigt 16 Mitarbeiter, die nur ein Ziel kennen: den Kunden und seine Wünsche! Auf über 3700 m2 Fläche haben wir über 100.000 Bücher, Modernes Antiquariat und Spiele auf Lager.
Specialty
Kinderbücher & Kinderhör Casetten, German Books, Software, Natur & Tiere, Ratgeber, Sachbücher, Englische Bücher, Medizin & Gesundheit, Universität & StudiumSeller's business information
AHA-BUCH GmbH
Garlebsen 48
Einbeck, Germany 37574
Terms of sale
Imprint
Seller Info:
AHA-BUCH GmbH
represented by the managing director Christel Glass
Garlebsen 48
37574 Einbeck
Deutschland
Telefon: 055639996039
Telefax: 055639995974
E-Mail: abebooks@aha-buch.de
USt-IdNr.: DE261904229
registered at Commercial register Amtsgerichtes Göttingen
Handelsregisternummer HRB 200691
Alternative dispute resolution:
The European Commission provides a platform for out-of-court online dispute resolution (ODR platform), which can be accessed under https://ec.europa.eu/odr.
We have been a member of the "FairCommerce" initiative since 25.05.2018.
For more information, see www.fair-commerce.de.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.
Shipping terms
We ship your order after we received them
for articles on hand latest 24 hours,
for articles with overnight supply latest 48 hours.
In case we need to order an article from our supplier our dispatch time depends on the reception date of the articles, but the articles will be shipped on the same day.
Our goal is to send the ordered articles in the fastest, but also most efficient and secure way to our customers.