Managed DirectX 9 Kick Start: Graphics and Game Programming

In this chapter we covered more advanced rendering techniques, including

• Using index buffers to eliminate the need for duplicating vertices and lower our overall memory usage

• The differences between each of the various primitive types and how to use each of them

• Depth buffers, and how to use them

In the next chapter we will start rendering real objects loaded from files. It's time to move on to meshes.