DirectX

[pocketmoon]

Anyone tried using DirectX as the renderer for a plugin ? I've got it working but it's slow - needs a readback from the rendertarget buffer and slow conversion to a bitmap for the return from 'render'...

[pocketmoon]

Anyone tried using DirectX as the renderer for a plugin ? I've got it working but it's slow - needs a readback from the rendertarget buffer and slow conversion to a bitmap for the return from 'render'...

Well I have it working fairly quickly now. I can animate a 256x256 image at about 25fps on my VIA SP13000 mobo (embedded gfx).

I'm going to write a Web Radio plugin and I'm planning to use DirectX for the interface.

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I'd love to take a look if you've got some sample code.

[pocketmoon]

The real pain is getting the Managed DirectX runtime installed on your target PC. In the end I gave up and installed the full Directx9c SDK.

Code:

Imports System
Imports GBPVR.Public
Imports System.Drawing
Imports Microsoft.DirectX
Imports Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Namespace WebRadioPlugin

    Public Class WebRadio

        Implements IMenuTask

        Private mobjDX9 As Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device
        Private mobjPresent As Direct3D.PresentParameters
        Private mobjMesh As Direct3D.Mesh
        Private mobjMaterial As Direct3D.Material
        Private mobjTimer As System.Windows.Forms.Timer
        Private msinRotationAngle As Single
        Private surf As Surface
        Private initme As Boolean = True



        Public Sub Activate() Implements GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.Activate

        End Sub

        Public Sub Deactivate() Implements GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.Deactivate

        End Sub

        Public Function GetConfigFormInstance(ByVal document As System.Xml.XmlDocument) As System.Windows.Forms.Form Implements GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.GetConfigFormInstance

        End Function

        Public Function getDescription() As String Implements GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.getDescription

            Return "Listen To The Radio"
        End Function

        Public Function getName() As String Implements GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.getName

            Return "Web Radio"

        End Function

        Public Function getSkinSubdirectory() As String Implements GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.getSkinSubdirectory
            Return "WebRadio"
        End Function

        Public Function getTaskImage() As System.Drawing.Image Implements GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.getTaskImage

        End Function

        Public Function needsRendering() As Boolean Implements GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.needsRendering

        End Function

        Public Sub OnClick(ByVal location As System.Drawing.Point) Implements GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.OnClick

        End Sub

        Public Sub OnDoubleClick(ByVal location As System.Drawing.Point) Implements GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.OnDoubleClick

        End Sub

        Public Function OnKeyDown(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) As Boolean Implements GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.OnKeyDown

        End Function

       ' On mouse wheel rotate the cube
        Public Sub OnMouseWheel(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Implements GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.OnMouseWheel
            'rotate a bit for next time through!
            msinRotationAngle += e.Delta * 0.001 ''0.05
            Dim rotateZ As Matrix = Matrix.RotationZ(msinRotationAngle)
            Dim rotateY As Matrix = Matrix.RotationY(msinRotationAngle)
            Dim world As Matrix = Matrix.Multiply(rotateZ, rotateY)
            mobjDX9.SetTransform(Direct3D.TransformType.World, world)
        End Sub



    
        Public Function render(ByRef requiresMoreRendering As Boolean) As System.Drawing.Image Implements GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.render

            requiresMoreRendering = False

            If initme = True Then
                OneTimeInit()
                initme = False
            End If

            mobjDX9.SetRenderTarget(0, surf)

            mobjDX9.Clear(Direct3D.ClearFlags.Target Or Direct3D.ClearFlags.ZBuffer, Color.Black.ToArgb(), 1.0, 0)

            mobjDX9.BeginScene()
            mobjDX9.Material = mobjMaterial
            mobjMesh.DrawSubset(0)
            mobjDX9.EndScene()
            'mobjDX9.Present()

            Dim stream As Microsoft.DirectX.GraphicsStream

            stream = SurfaceLoader.SaveToStream(ImageFileFormat.Bmp, surf)
            Dim img As Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(stream)

            Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(img)

            Dim textArea As New RectangleF(0, 0, img.Width, img.Height)
            Dim strFormat As StringFormat = New StringFormat

            strFormat.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center
            strFormat.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center

            g.DrawString("Hello World!", New System.Drawing.Font("Tahoma", 18), Brushes.WhiteSmoke, textArea, strFormat)

            Return img

        End Function

        <DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint:="GetForegroundWindow")> Private Shared Function GetForegroundWindow() As IntPtr


        End Function

        Private Sub OneTimeInit()

            Dim objAdapters As AdapterInformation

            objAdapters = Direct3D.Manager.Adapters(0)
            '
            ' Setup present params
            '
            mobjPresent = New Direct3D.PresentParameters
            With mobjPresent
                .Windowed = True
                .SwapEffect = Direct3D.SwapEffect.Discard
                .BackBufferFormat = objAdapters.CurrentDisplayMode.Format
                .EnableAutoDepthStencil = True
                .AutoDepthStencilFormat = Direct3D.DepthFormat.D16
                .BackBufferHeight = objAdapters.CurrentDisplayMode.Height
                .BackBufferWidth = objAdapters.CurrentDisplayMode.Width
            End With

            mobjDX9 = New Direct3D.Device(objAdapters.Adapter, Direct3D.DeviceType.Hardware, GetForegroundWindow(), _
            Direct3D.CreateFlags.SoftwareVertexProcessing, mobjPresent)

            'Off Screen buffer to render to.
            surf = mobjDX9.CreateRenderTarget(512, 512, objAdapters.CurrentDisplayMode.Format, MultiSampleType.None, 0, False)

            AddHandler mobjDX9.DeviceReset, AddressOf Me.OnDeviceReset

            InitializeDirect3D()


        End Sub

        Private Sub CreateCube()
            mobjMesh = Direct3D.Mesh.Box(mobjDX9, 10, 10, 10)
        End Sub

        Private Sub CreateMaterials()
            mobjMaterial = New Direct3D.Material
            mobjMaterial.Diffuse = Color.FromArgb(1, 255, 255, 255)
        End Sub

        Private Sub CreateLights()
            Dim Light0 As Direct3D.Light = mobjDX9.Lights(0)

            Light0.Type = Direct3D.LightType.Directional
            Light0.Direction = New Vector3(0, -1, 1)
            Light0.Diffuse = Color.FromArgb(0, 20, 20, 200)
            Light0.Ambient = Color.FromArgb(0, 30, 30, 200)
            Light0.Enabled = True
            'Light0.s()

            mobjDX9.RenderState.Lighting = True
            mobjDX9.RenderState.Ambient = Color.FromArgb(0, 20, 20, 20)
        End Sub

        Private Sub InitializeView()

            Dim eyePosition As New Vector3(0, 0, -30)
            Dim direction As New Vector3(0, 0, 0)
            Dim upDirection As New Vector3(0, 1, 0)

            Dim view As Matrix = Matrix.LookAtLH(eyePosition, direction, upDirection)
            mobjDX9.SetTransform(Direct3D.TransformType.View, view)

            Dim fieldOfView As Single = Math.PI / 4
            Dim aspectRatio As Single = 1.0
            Dim nearPlane As Single = 1.0
            Dim farPlane As Single = 500.0

            Dim projection As Matrix = Matrix.PerspectiveFovLH(fieldOfView, aspectRatio, nearPlane, farPlane)
            mobjDX9.SetTransform(Direct3D.TransformType.Projection, projection)
        End Sub

        Private Sub InitializeDirect3D()
            CreateCube()
            CreateMaterials()
            CreateLights()
            InitializeView()
        End Sub

        Private Sub OnDeviceReset(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
            InitializeDirect3D()
        End Sub

    End Class

End Namespace

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Cheers.