MinimalOffscreenD3D

Minimal C++ project for offscreen image rendering using D3D11 and WIC.

As simple as it gets, this native C++ console app generates a PNG using API from Windows 8 SDK plus some cool Visual Studio 2013 features. There are no windows created, no WinAPI calls, only:

• Direct3D 11,
• Windows Imaging Components (WIC),
• integrated HLSL compiler,
• stl.

Steps

1. Create D3D11 device and context.
2. Create offscreen buffer.
3. Load and set shaders.
4. Draw a simple quad.
5. Copy texture from render target.
6. Create png encoder and stream.
7. Save image buffer.