Student interested in GSoC 2016 implementing D3DX9 API idea

[Xu Zhao]

Hello Matteo,

I spent some time reading the code as well as read several current bugs
from bugzilla.
I think working on fonts and mesh related APIs is good for this GSoC
project, for example:
d3dx:ID3DXFontImpl_DrawText
d3dx:ID3DXFontImpl_PreloadText
d3dx:ID3DXFontImpl_OnLostDevice
d3dx:ID3DXFontImpl_OnResetDevice
d3dx:D3DXCreateFontIndirect
d3dx:ID3DXMeshImpl_OptimizeInplace

I am also interested in following surface API if I got more time.
d3dx:D3DXLoadSurfaceFromMemory

Here is my current proposal:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i8de2gWloRMJeDuziAfwqq65pBeGrQ3bXjvzQBBAdSk/edit#
What do you think?

Regards,
- Xu

--
Xu Zhao
i at xuzhao.net

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016, at 09:26 AM, Matteo Bruni wrote:
> 2016-02-29 23:53 GMT+01:00 Xu Zhao <i at xuzhao.net>:
> > Hello Wine Community,
> >
> > First congrats that Wine Project get accepted into GSoC 2016 summer
> > organization!
> > I am currently a PhD student in University of Toronto and I am
> > interested in the D3DX9 API implementation task. Mainly because I would
> > like to see more games can run in wine because of my work!
> 
> That's great!
> 
> >
> > My research field is operating system so I am a pretty good C/CPP
> > programmer. However I am not very familiar with DirectX related
> > programming and hopefully I can get some help from the community, like
> > where to start.
> > I have read the wiki entry of D3DX9 API and want to get some help in
> > selecting a reasonable sized API list, maybe someone can reply and
> > provide some help?
> 
> I guess it depends on what you find most interesting among the
> available functions / APIs. I suggest you to lookup the functions and
> "areas" listed in the wiki on MSDN, in the Wine source code and on
> Wine's bugzilla and then decide what you like or find most useful. The
> various things listed aren't all of the same "size" (e.g. the fonts
> stuff might be good enough for a GSoC project by itself while each of
> the other entries probably isn't enough, while the entire "effect
> framework" is likely too big) but selecting a reasonable set should be
> easier once we know your preferences.
> 
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Regards,
> > - Xu
> >
> > --
> > Xu Zhao
> > i at xuzhao.net
> >
> >