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Platform Specific

Modules

D3D9 Features & Restrictions

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Detailed Description

Links to all platform specific information in the API Reference can be found in this folder.

D3D9 Platform Specific Overview

The following note applies to all versions of Direct3D and not just D3D9.

Note:

RenderWare Graphics in D3D9 will function under any video card. However D3D9 performance and support relies heavily on the video card drivers that are installed in the host machine. It is advised that you obtain the most recent drivers from your video card vendor for best results.

Listed below are references to all D3D9 platform-specific information contained within this API reference.

Fundamental Types

• Matrix-vector Products
• RwMatrixMultiply

Initialization & Resource Management

• Device Cache
• Metrics

Rasters, Textures & Images

• Raster Types
• Raster Functions
• Raster 2D Functions
• Textures
• Compressed Textures
• Cube Textures
• Texture Dictionaries

Render States

• Source Blending Modes
• Destination Blending Modes
• RenderState Restrictions

Cameras

• RwCamera functionality

Lighting

• Lighting

Geometry

• D3D9 RpMatFX Overview
• RpSkin Vertex shaders
• RpSkin Matrix-blending Code
• Bone limit
• D3D9 RpPTank Overview
• RpPatch functionality

PowerPipe

• Core Powerpipe functionality
• World Extensions functionality

FX Pack

• Rp Team Shadows Use the Stencil Buffer
• Rp Team Compatibility Matrix
• Rp Toon Optimized Silhouette Rendering

Platform Specific

• Restrictions
• Reference Rasterizer

• Features

• Floating-point Precision Mode

• Platform Specific Functions

Documentation Available

• User Guide
• White Papers
• Examples Documentation
• Documentation list of RenderWare Graphics documentation
• Release Notes Overview

For further information about D3D9 refer to the Microsoft DirectX 9 documentation.

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