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	Managed Direct3D Tutorial (In Afrikaans)	Managed Direct3D Tutorial Series, translated into Afrikaans
	Managed Direct3D Tutorial (In Danish)	Managed Direct3D Tutorial Series, translated into Danish
	Managed Direct3D Tutorial (In French)	Managed Direct3D Tutorial Series, translated into French
	Managed Direct3D Tutorial (In Italian)	Managed Direct3D Tutorial Series, translated into Italian

Articles

01	Managed Direct3D - The Game Loop	Talks about the basic high-level structure of a Direct3D application.
02	InitializeGraphics	Examines the initialization code needed to get a Direct3D program up and running.
03	Rendering Basics	Talks about the basic rendering process, including how to do the absolute basics of drawing a 3D scene: clearing the screen.
04	Creating a VertexBuffer	Talks about how to create a VertexBuffer, which is the last prerequisite to being able to draw arbitrary shapes.
05	Rendering with a VertexBuffer	Talks about how to actually get a VertexBuffer to draw something onto the screen.
06	Coordinate Systems and Transforms	Talks about the various coordinate systems involved in rendering in three dimensions, and the transforms that move objects from one coordinate system to another. Assumes basic matrix math knowledge.
07	Rendering in Three Dimensions	Talks about how to actually draw things in three dimensons.
08	Lighting Basics	Talks about the basics of the Direct3D lighting model.
09	Texture Basics	Discusses the basics of how to work with textures in Direct3D. Textures let you apply arbitrary patterns to the surface of your triangles.
10	Materials Basics	Materials are an alternate way of giving objects color. But they also allow us to specify additional properties, such as specularity. We'll talk about how to work with Direct3D materials.
11	Z-Buffers	Getting a 3D scene to look right means making sure that things that are closer to the viewer cover up things that farther away. The easiest way to achieve this in Direct3D is to use something called a Z-Buffer. In this article we'll talk about how to get Direct3D to set up and maintain a Z-Buffer.
12	Mesh Basics	Meshes allow us to move beyond manipulating individual vertices to working with whole objects, and as such are a major part of Direct3D. In this article, we'll look at the basics of how to load and render a mesh from a .x file.
13	Device Recovery	The Direct3D device can become lost due to a variety of events - screen savers kicking in, computers being locked, or machines going into standby. In this tutorial, we'll see how to gracefully deal with these events.
14	Index Buffers	Index buffers are both an important performance optimization and a integral part of how Direct3D Mesh objects work. In this tutorial we'll see how to construct and use an IndexBuffer.
15	Creating a Mesh	In this article, we discuss how to dynamically create and render a Mesh object. We also briefly cover wireframe rendering and z-bias.
16	Fonts	In this article, we talk about how to display both 2D and 3D text.

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I haven't updated the tutorial in a long, long time. I am unlikely to do so any time soon. Nevertheless, I still get a fair amount of questions on it. Should I ever wind up working on it again (maybe when I retire ) I don't want to lose track of this good feedback. So I've created ReaderComments as a "parking lot" for feedback that I have yet to incorporate.

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