Tutorial 5: Using Texture Maps

While lights and materials add a great deal of realism to a scene, nothing adds more realism than adding textures to surfaces. Textures can be thought of as wallpaper that is shrink-wrapped onto a surface. You could place a wood texture on a cube to make it look like the cube is actually made of wood. The Texture sample project adds a banana peel texture to the cylinder created in Tutorial 4: Creating and Using Lights. This tutorial covers how to load textures, set up vertices, and display objects with texture.

This tutorial implements textures using the following steps:

• Step 1: Defining a Custom Vertex Format
• Step 2: Initializing Screen Geometry
• Step 3: Rendering the Scene

Note  The path of the Texture sample project is:

    (SDK root)\Samples\Multimedia\Direct3D\Tutorials\Tut05_Textures.

The sample code in the Texture project is nearly identical to the sample code in the Lights project, except that the Texture sample project does not create a material or a light. The Using Texture Maps tutorial focuses only on the code unique to textures and does not cover initializing Microsoft® Direct3D®, handling Microsoft Windows® messages, rendering, or shutting down. For information on these tasks, see Tutorial 1: Creating a Device.

This tutorial uses custom vertices and a vertex buffer to display geometry. For more information on selecting a custom vertex type and implementing a vertex buffer, see Tutorial 2: Rendering Vertices.

This tutorial makes use of matrices to transform geometry. For more information on matrices and transformations, see Tutorial 3: Using Matrices.