By Sebastien St-Laurent
ISBN 0-9766132-1-2
Jan 2006 (896 pages)

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stateblock This keyword is used to declare variables of the type stateblock, used to contain a set of effect states. Note that this keyword is generally used for effect .les. See Part II of this book for more information on effect .les

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pow Returns the .rst input to the power of the second, or xy. 3 Arithmetic

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...er 2.x model offers a wide range of instructions. Below, in Table A-3, you will .nd a complete listing of shader instructions along with a quick description of their functionality, the number of instruction slots taken by the instruction and whether the instruction is arithmetic in nature or used fo...

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...one within a matching pair of ID3DXEffect::Beginand ID3DXEffect::End calls. The effect system uses the state block created when ID3DXEffect::Begin was called to automatically restore the pipelines state to what it was called before ID3DXEffect::Begin was called. This function returns a standard HRES...

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...ss of the effect framework as it is used to contain and execute the content of an effect .le. The class itself inherits from the ID3DXBaseEffect class but adds a few functions used to control the execution of speci.c effects. Although I will cover individual functions in detail later, the functions...