Getting FEATURE_LEVEL_9_3 to work in DX11
- by Dominic
Currently I'm going through some tutorials and learning DX11 on a DX10 machine (though I just ordered a new DX11 compatible computer) by means of setting the D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_ setting to 10_0 and switching the vertex and pixel shader versions in D3DX11CompileFromFile to "vs_4_0" and "ps_4_0" respectively. This works fine as I'm not using any DX11-only features yet.
I'd like to make it compatible with DX9.0c, which naively I thought I could do by changing the feature level setting to 9_3 or something and taking the vertex/pixel shader versions down to 3 or 2. However, no matter what I change the vertex/pixel shader versions to, it always fails when I try to call D3DX11CompileFromFile to compile the vertex/pixel shader files when I have D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_9_3 enabled.
Maybe this is due to the the vertex/pixel shader files themselves being incompatible for the lower vertex/pixel shader versions, but I'm not expert enough to say.
My shader files are listed below:
Vertex shader:
cbuffer MatrixBuffer
{
matrix worldMatrix;
matrix viewMatrix;
matrix projectionMatrix;
};
struct VertexInputType
{
float4 position : POSITION;
float2 tex : TEXCOORD0;
float3 normal : NORMAL;
};
struct PixelInputType
{
float4 position : SV_POSITION;
float2 tex : TEXCOORD0;
float3 normal : NORMAL;
};
PixelInputType LightVertexShader(VertexInputType input)
{
PixelInputType output;
// Change the position vector to be 4 units for proper matrix calculations.
input.position.w = 1.0f;
// Calculate the position of the vertex against the world, view, and projection matrices.
output.position = mul(input.position, worldMatrix);
output.position = mul(output.position, viewMatrix);
output.position = mul(output.position, projectionMatrix);
// Store the texture coordinates for the pixel shader.
output.tex = input.tex;
// Calculate the normal vector against the world matrix only.
output.normal = mul(input.normal, (float3x3)worldMatrix);
// Normalize the normal vector.
output.normal = normalize(output.normal);
return output;
}
Pixel Shader:
Texture2D shaderTexture;
SamplerState SampleType;
cbuffer LightBuffer
{
float4 ambientColor;
float4 diffuseColor;
float3 lightDirection;
float padding;
};
struct PixelInputType
{
float4 position : SV_POSITION;
float2 tex : TEXCOORD0;
float3 normal : NORMAL;
};
float4 LightPixelShader(PixelInputType input) : SV_TARGET
{
float4 textureColor;
float3 lightDir;
float lightIntensity;
float4 color;
// Sample the pixel color from the texture using the sampler at this texture coordinate location.
textureColor = shaderTexture.Sample(SampleType, input.tex);
// Set the default output color to the ambient light value for all pixels.
color = ambientColor;
// Invert the light direction for calculations.
lightDir = -lightDirection;
// Calculate the amount of light on this pixel.
lightIntensity = saturate(dot(input.normal, lightDir));
if(lightIntensity > 0.0f)
{
// Determine the final diffuse color based on the diffuse color and the amount of light intensity.
color += (diffuseColor * lightIntensity);
}
// Saturate the final light color.
color = saturate(color);
// Multiply the texture pixel and the final diffuse color to get the final pixel color result.
color = color * textureColor;
return color;
}
