Student interested in GSoC 2016 implementing D3DX9 API idea

[Xu Zhao]

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!

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?

Thank you!

Regards,
- Xu

-- 
Xu Zhao
i(a)xuzhao.net

[Matteo Bruni]

2016-02-29 23:53 GMT+01:00 Xu Zhao <i(a)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(a)xuzhao.net

[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/1i8de2gWloRMJeDuziAfwqq65pBeGrQ3bXjvzQBBA...
What do you think?

Regards,
- Xu

--
Xu Zhao
i(a)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(a)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(a)xuzhao.net