DirectXTK VS DirectXTex

LoadScreenAllow= LoadScreenBlock=All Note: In cases where only loadscreens with conditions are allowed, it is possible that none will show even if no others are available. LoadScreenFilter=false LoadScreenAllow= LoadScreenBlock=All Remove all lens flare from weather records. This is done in-memory and is not persistent. DisableWeatherLensFlare=false Disable actor fade when camera intersects the body. DisableActorFade=false Disable player fade when camera intersects the body. DisablePlayerFade=false [OSD] Enable the on-screen display. Enable=false InitiallyOn=true Comma separated list of displayed stats. fps - Framerate bare_fps - Just the framerate, no formatting frametime - Frametime bare_frametime - Just the frametime, no formatting counter - Frame counter vram - Video ram usage (used / budget) * all - Everything * Note that this line does not show total amount of memory available but rather the OS allocated budget which can vary based on how much is consumed by other applications. If usage exceeds the budget, you'll likely experience stuttering. Requires DXGI 1.4. Stats related to specific drivers are configured in their respective sections. Show=fps,vram How often the OSD updates (in seconds). UpdateInterval=0.3 Keys used used to toggle the OSD. ComboKey uses built-in constants, ToggleKey is a DX scan code (https://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Input\_Script) ComboKey: 1 - Left Shift 2 - Right Shift 3 - Left Control 4 - Right Control 5 - Left Alt 6 - Right Alt 7 - Left Win 8 - Right Win ComboKey=1 and ToggleKey=0xD2 is Left Shift + Insert ComboKey=1 ToggleKey=0xD2 Align the OSD. 1 - Top Left 2 - Top Right 3 - Bottom Left 4 - Bottom Right Align=1 OSD position offset (X Y). Offset=4 4 Font scale (X Y) Omit Y for uniform scaling Scale=1.0 0.9 Adjust font scale based on amount of lines drawn. AutoScale=true Scale font size based on window size. Size remains constant when resolution to window size ratio != 1, for example when playing at non-native resolutions. ScaleToWindow=true Set a custom font. You can generate bitmaps from fonts installed on your system with MakeSpriteFont. https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTK/wiki/MakeSpriteFont Run the tool with /NoPremultiply and place files in Data\SKSE\Plugins\SDTFonts FontFile= Font and outline color (RGBA). Color=255 255 255 255 OutlineColor=0 0 0 255 Outline offset. OutlineOffset=1 "

XNA died when the people behind it left, thus the C++ side won once again, and DirectXTK was born as replacement.

https://walbourn.github.io/directxtk/

Years later they kind of sponsored Monogame, when they were recovering from XBox One mess,

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2016/03/14/letter-chris-charla-i...

By the way, I think one of these episodes talks about the emulation, but I am not certain if it was on this podcast I heard about it.

https://theretrohour.com/?s=xbox

So for the past 8 hours, I've been trying to mod the music files for Bloons Monkey City. I converted some songs I wanted to use in BMC using audacity to wav and made sure to rename the files to the songs I wanted to replace. I used XWBtool to repackage the wav files into an XWB file, the file format BMC uses to store its music in. I used Foobar2000 to view the XMB file, and for whatever reason all the song names get changed to whatever the XWB file name is after repackaging them using XWBtool (I.e. The XWB's file name is whatever the first wav file XWBtool repackages. In my case, "WaveBank#1 (MCity_MvM)" is the first wav file that gets repackaged, so for whatever reason every other file also gets its names changed to "WaveBank#1 (MCity_MvM)," which is causing me a problem as BMC won't be able to read the other music files.).

DirectXTK 12 (includes SimpleMath and other goodies)

DirectXtutorial doesn't seem to have the greatest C++ code either. I would definitely use ComPtr.

DirectXTK (basically XNA ported to C++, after it was dropped)

Thank you for your reply, I make spritefont from this link https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTK/wiki/SpriteFont but still cannot show the right font Maybe have to check parameter of old font

Because you get stuff like DirectXTK and PIX from the company that does the API, while on Khronos stuff you need to go hunting for comunity or GPU vendor specific tooling.

then check up this https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTK/wiki/Getting-Started

Optimized Vanilla Textures were optimized for PC and then ported to console. They were optimized using an 'optimizer' for Skyrim, which was not updated for the textures FO4 has. It did add mipmaps for the textures that were supposedly missing some and shrank the resolution; however, seeing as the Creation Kit uses Microsoft's own DDS compression program that adds mipmaps automatically, you're literally just re-adding vanilla textures that have been decompressed and then recompressed with extra loss on the visuals and taking up space. Also, specular maps must be compressed with the Photoshop Intel plugin in order to compress them properly or a program that will allow you to have the red and green channels saved in BC5U format (which is a normal map compression and flipped). GIMP does not do it correctly and I'm very doubtful the program that was used to shrink things did either since it was not designed for FO4's specularity.

DirectXTex

The images are in a split DDS format. To convert them to e.g. PNG files, you first have to concat the files and then use a tool such as texconv.

Yep, the images used for each part of the minigame (a couple variations each of lock background, pick, pins, and springs) are stored as .dds files, DXT1 format. You can convert another image format to this type of texture-- I used texconv. Overwriting the default textures with your new files will replace the assets ingame.

However I've found that MS TexConv from the DirectXTex package is the best way for loosing less quality, so I save my textures as lossless PNGs and use TexConv with my own wrapper then.

You can use texdiag to see information about a texture.

I know only Nvidia texture tools exporter but it's not in masse sorry My suggestion is to create a python script that uses texconv.exe for every file in a directory, pretty easy to get

xLODGen/DynDOLOD/TexGen uses Texoncv to compress textures.

Not necessary on Xbox. Xbox graphics will not function properly without mipmaps so the developers would have had to run everything through xtexconv for Xbox optimization. See Microsoft Documentation on DirectXTex. Code samples for xtexconv for the curious are located here.

All textures/images are .dds files. I use TexConv.exe to convert them to png files. texconv.exe *.dds -ft png