D3D12 Programming Basics Plus

Until 3-4 years ago, D3D12 was not the mainstream API for PC games. Many games were still being developed and released with D3D11, and it seemed difficult for D3D12, which was difficult to develop for, to become the mainstream API.

Then, D3D12 emerged as the mainstream API thanks to features such as RayTracing that could directly improve graphic quality.

The main API of popular commercial engines has also been moved from D3D11 to D3D12. Although it is not common, self-developed engines are also being developed with D3D12.

Now D3D12 is clearly the mainstream graphics API. If you only focus on utilizing commercial engines, it may not matter, but if you want to dissect and customize their structure, or write your own rendering code to create your own engine, I think D3D12 is an unavoidable process.

Learning D3D12 is more difficult than before, but once you get used to the somewhat unfamiliar concepts such as Descriptor Table, Resource Barrier, and asynchronous rendering, you will be able to develop with a similar feel to D3D11.

This course focuses on helping those with basic graphics knowledge and experience with traditional graphics APIs (D3D11, OpenGL, etc.) prior to D3D12 to adapt to the D3D12 API.