In order to improve the level of realism, we will use shaders to compute per-pixel lighting information for the objects in the scene. Texturing alone often does not capture the details required to make objects in our scene seem realistic. Using the power of the programmable shader stages provided in DirectX 11, we can interpret texture data any way we want and use that texture data to determine the final look of the objects in our scene. Any type of data that we might want to define for the surface of an object can potentially be encoded in a texture such as diffuse color and opacity, ambient and emissive values, specular color and specular power, surface normals (also known as normal mapping), or translucency values, etcetera. Textures can be used to store more than simply color information about an object. Texturing is the process of mapping 2D dimensional images onto 3D dimensional objects. If not, please first read the previous article Introduction to DirectX 11. In this article, I assume that you already know how to setup a project in Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2013 that can be used as a starting point for this application. This article is a continuation of the previous article title Introduction to DirectX 11.

Directx 11 (opengl 4.4)