Rendering DirectX to a picture box control

[dellanooch]

Maybe not necessarily a picture box control, but some sort of way of rendering to a confined area (not just the entire face of the form). Anyone have a way of doing this? A link to a tutorial or some sort of reference would be WONDERFUL.

- Andrew

 

[Divil]

Which version of DirectX? I only tried DX9 briefly but I seem to remember it accepting a parameter of type Control as a place to render to, so instead of passing a form you could try passing a Panel or PictureBox instead.

 

[Nerseus]

DX9 (the only officially supported version of DirectX that works with .NET) has a project template that will create a Direct3D project that writes to a picturebox control. When you select new project, select the DirectX project type. A wizard will come up asking for some parameters. I think its the "Project Settings" page of the wizard that allows you to select a PictureBox.

-Ner

 

[dellanooch]

Ah yes, Nerseus. Thanks for pointing that out. But if you remember from other thread about the missing files I cant completely generate an error-free directx project. But regardless I think Ill be able to figure it out.

Thanks guys.

 

[Nerseus]

When you setup your PresentParameters, just set the DeviceWindow to the PictureBox control. Also, for obvious reasons, choose Windowed mode

-Nerseus

 

[Steuernol]

Or when you create the Device one of the constructors takes a control as a parameter. It will then render to this control.

 

[shouzama]

Take a look at THIS TUTORIAL (from DirectX4VB).

It renders D3D to a Window, and with VERY LITTLE work, you can use it to render in a picturebox (I already did that and it worked perfectly)

 

[Jelly Donut Man]

Device = New Device(0, DeviceType.Hardware, PictureBox.Handle, CreateFlags.HardwareVertexProcessing, PresentParams)

Works for me. If thats what your asking.