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- //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- // Name: Text3D Direct3D Sample
- //
- // Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
- //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- Description
- ===========
- The Text3D sample shows how to draw 2D text and 3D text in a 3D scene. This
- is most useful for display stats, in game menus, etc.
-
-
- Path
- ====
- Source: DXSDK\Samples\Multimedia\D3D\Text3D
- Executable: DXSDK\Samples\Multimedia\D3D\Bin
-
-
- User's Guide
- ============
- The following keys are implemented. The dropdown menus can be used for the
- same controls.
- <Enter> Starts and stops the scene
- <Space> Advances the scene by a small increment
- <F1> Shows help or available commands.
- <F2> Prompts user to select a new rendering device or display mode
- <Alt+Enter> Toggles between fullscreen and windowed modes
- <Esc> Exits the app.
-
-
- Programming Notes
- =================
- This sample uses the common class, CD3DFont, to display 2D text in a 3D
- scene. The source code for the class can be found in the "common" directory
- (described below), and is of most interest to this sample. The class uses
- GDI to load a font and output each letter to a bitmap. That bitmap, in turn,
- is used to create a texture.
-
- When the CD3DFont class' DrawText() function is called, a vertex buffer is
- filled with polygons that are textured using the font texture created as
- mentioned above. The polygons may be drawn as a 2D overlay (useful for
- printing stats, etc.) or truly integrated in the 3D scene.
-
- The sample also shows how to use D3DXCreateText() to create a D3DX mesh
- containing a 3D model of a text string. Note that D3DXCreateText may not
- work with certain types of fonts, such as bitmap fonts and some symbol fonts.
-
- This sample makes use of common DirectX code (consisting of helper functions,
- etc.) that is shared with other samples on the DirectX SDK. All common
- headers and source code can be found in the following directory:
- DXSDK\Samples\Multimedia\Common
-