DirectX 10 start as a SoC project?

[Mirek]

Jesse Allen napsal(a):
> On 3/10/07, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Thinking about SoC I though that starting a DirectX 10 implementation 
>> may be a
>> good summer of code project. I do not mean implementing the full d3d10 
>> lib,
>> that would be way to much, more starting the infrastructure. Henri 
>> disagreed
>> with the idea, so I thought I'll write a mail for public discussion :-) .
>> Looking at the timeline for SoC I hope it isn't too late.
>>
>> My idea is to start a d3d10 implementation up to the following point:
>>
>> -> Add a winver Windows Vista to make version checkers happy :-)
>> -> Create the d3d10 lib and start the .idl file for header generation
>> -> Write stubs for the functions to allow the app to create all the 
>> interfaces
>> -> Write test cases for reference counting. ddraw and d3d9 show that 
>> Microsoft
>> does not stick to its own COM rules
>> -> Make methods that have already 1:1 equivalents in wined3d call 
>> wined3d. Add
>> other methods as required to wined3d.
>> -> Implement them as far as you feel like :-)
>>
>> I think the good thing about this is that there are is not much knowledge
>> about wined3d and d3d10 necessary at the start. The one who works on 
>> it can
>> learn the d3d10 interface while writing the stubs and learn about wined3d
>> when starting to call it.
>>
>> Opinions? Suggestions?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Stefan
>>
>>
> 
> 
> The concept is nice, and I'd like to learn 3D graphic APIs better. But
> when I consider DX10, I don't have any DX10 apps, nor do I have Vista.
> I'd also be concerned if it is even properly documented if I were to
> start that way. So I'm not thinking I want to do DX10. However, this
> idea can be considered with any API that is currently not implemented.
> So I think I'll want to try this with a smaller more widely used API.
> 
> Jesse
> 
> 
> 

Nvidia introduced Nvidia SDK for DirectX 10

http://developer.nvidia.com/page/home.html

direct link: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/sdk_home.html

Mirek Slugen