GMD3D11

D3D11 functions extension for GameMaker

Status: Community Project 💙

This is a community-developed project, released under CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain). It is no longer actively maintained by the original author. Feel free to fork, modify, or experiment.

Features

• Shaders
  • Compile from file (optimization level 3)
  • Save and load compiled shaders
  • Hook into ID3D11DeviceContext::Draw calls to swap out used vertex and pixel shaders with custom ones
  • Vertex
  • Pixel
  • Geometry
  • Tessellation
  • Compute
• Vertex formats
• Buffers
  • Vertex
  • Index
  • Constant
  • Structured (read-only)
  • Compute (read/write structured)
  • Append/consume
  • Indirect args
  • Raw
  • Upload (CPU -> GPU)
  • Readback (GPU -> CPU)
• Textures
  • texture_set_stage_vs() - vertex texture fetching of native GM textures (sprite_get_texture(), surface_get_texture())
  • Samplers
  • 2D
  • 3D
  • Arrays
• Occlusion queries
• Timestamps
• vertex_submit_instanced() - instanced rendering of native GM vertex buffers

Building the DLL

Requires CMake 3.23 at least and Python 3!

Simply run ./build.ps1 from the root directory to build the DLL, copy it into datafiles and generate __d3d11_generated.gml.

Links

• Documentation - for the latest release, not the main branch!!!

Credits

• https://github.com/ParinovYT/cVmtHook-x64 - x64 VMT hook
• https://polyhaven.com/a/rubber_duck_toy - model used in instanced rendering example