Rendering Simple 3D Graphics - Game Development with SlimDX - page 134

ing. And lastly, we set the CpuAccessFlags and OptionsFlags to None as we've
done before.
Next, we create a DepthStencilViewDescription to configure the depth stencil
view object. The Format property specifies the format, for which we just pass in
the value we set for the Format property of the depth stencil texture description
we just filled in. We set the Dimension property to DepthStencilViewDimen-
sion.Texture2D since we are using a Texture2D object for the depth stencil tex-
ture. And the MipSlice property is beyond the scope of this text, so we set it to 0 .
The next line of code creates the depth stencil texture object. And after that, the fol-
lowing line creates the DepthStencilView object. And the last line tells the output
merger to use our new depth stencil along with our render target.
Note
In this demo we only have one object, so we won't really see the depth stencil in
action. If we had two cubes, with one partially obscured by the other, then we'd
see the depth stencil in action, making the front cube actually get drawn in front
as we want.
With that done, we need to initialize our constant buffers now, so that we can com-
municate various bits of information to the graphics card, such as our projection and
view matrices.
Initializing the constant buffers
Next we will create the InitConstantBuffers() method to initialize our constant
buffers:
public void InitConstantBuffers()
{
// Create a buffer description.
BufferDescription bd = new
BufferDescription();