Cool project - can't wait to see more.
And congratulations to your Microsoft deal.

Sag mal, nutzt du eigentlich das MS eigene SampleFramework?
Was hälst du davon ... taugt das was, sprich kann man es ohne Probleme für eigene Projekte verwenden?

-> He asked if I use the DirectX Sample Framework.

No, I don't think much of it. And the game should be as simple and easy to understand as possible, there will be not a single c++/asm line of code or unsafe code in it (which I do use in my other projects). I wrote a very small own framework for the game, but optimized most of the stuff right for this game. Anyway, I'm pretty sure you could use the framework of Rocket Commander and write your own game without any problems.

More on that subject next screenshot. I just solved 2 big issuses (HW Instancing and Occlusion testing without reading back framebuffer (gpu expensive) or doing expensive intersection tests, which are expensive on the cpu).

Again this seems to be a very cool Project. For new graphic programmers this could teach them a lot.

Why did you switch from OpenGL to DirectX? Arena Wars was completly written for OpenGL afaik but then Lost Squadron and now Rocket Commander uses DX. I made the switch the other way DX->OpenGL because i didn't like the DX approach.

Hi Sebastian,

I switched to DirectX for the same reason I switched from c++ to c#, just to try it out. Before using OpenGL I was using DirectX 7, DirectX 9 is really good for advanced shader effects ...

Anyway, I still got a lot of OpenGL code in my engine, so I could switch back if I want to, but most of the newer shader effects (HLSL, fx files, x files) are not supported there yet. Maybe I will check out OpenGL again after my next big project is finished (Armies of Steel).

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