Latest build for DirectX11 and beta31.2

Quite some new changes for this one.

Update 4th, December

One small nasty bug decided to stay hidden until after deploy, so I updated the build,please download latest version again (replaced downloads), sorry for any inconvenience ;) So latest release has those extra bits:

• Cube/Texture Array renderer were not working anymore
• On the way device does proper clean at the end of each frame (normally harmless, but debug runtime spam at times).
• Integrated small shared texture fix from (user:sebl)
• Metaballs were missing topology (Nvidia seems to not care and handle it, ATI just crashes).
• Added new FileTexture (2d.Pooled), please check it it’s nice ;)

Bug Fixes

• Text had a hue Issue
• Sampler State had overflow issue in 64 bits build
• Preview was not resetting stages prior to render, which could cause a black screen.
• Render Slices on Depth were not set properly on CubeMap/TextureArray renderers.
• Topology node was creating issue if enum was set to undefined, now in this case it doesn’t convolute geometry.

Changed/New Nodes

• Readback has reasonably fast reader for standard types (vectors/matrix…), instead of using generic version.
• Billboard has a Double value toggle, to use full screen space with a quad of 1.
• New node to join subsets (by ( (user:velcrome) )
• Quad had some renaming (by ( (user:joreg) )
• Many help fix and some new TextureFX, by ( (user:unc) ) check Pillow,Threshold,TriColor
• Metaballs (DX11.Geometry) Simple port over the previous one.

New Samples

• Pipet has been changed to show usage of new native type readbacks.
• Line batch geometry shader example (see screenshot above).
• Domain Deform tessellation example.
• DispatchThreadID compute shader examples

Download Latest version here : directx11-nodes-alphabeta-contribution

RoadMap

Please note that for now most work is to replace SlimDX by SharpDX, so next release (planned for end december/mid january) will have a couple of changes (which should not affect the patcher).

That also means access to DirectX11.2 (win8.1 only).

On the move quite a few core bits are changed/improved but, more announcements while progressing ;)