D3D10_DDI_RASTERIZER_DESC structure (d3d10umddi.h)

The D3D10_DDI_RASTERIZER_DESC structure describes a rasterizer state.

Syntax

typedef struct D3D10_DDI_RASTERIZER_DESC {
  [in] D3D10_DDI_FILL_MODE FillMode;
  [in] D3D10_DDI_CULL_MODE CullMode;
  [in] BOOL                FrontCounterClockwise;
  [in] INT32               DepthBias;
  [in] FLOAT               DepthBiasClamp;
  [in] FLOAT               SlopeScaledDepthBias;
  [in] BOOL                DepthClipEnable;
  [in] BOOL                ScissorEnable;
  [in] BOOL                MultisampleEnable;
  [in] BOOL                AntialiasedLineEnable;
} D3D10_DDI_RASTERIZER_DESC;

Members

[in] FillMode

A value that specifies the fill mode for primitives. This member must be set to one of the following values from the D3D10_DDI_FILL_MODE enumeration.

[in] CullMode

A value that specifies how back-facing triangles are culled, if at all. This member must be set to one of the following values from the D3D10_DDI_CULL_MODE enumeration.

[in] FrontCounterClockwise

A Boolean value that specifies whether vertices that are provided in a counter-clockwise order (with respect to the rasterizer) are front facing. TRUE indicates they are; FALSE indicates that counter-clockwise vertices indicate back facing.

[in] DepthBias

A depth-bias constant to use in biasing formulas. For more information about DepthBias, see the following Remarks section.

[in] DepthBiasClamp

A single-precision float vector that is used in biasing formulas. For more information about DepthBiasClamp, see the following Remarks section.

[in] SlopeScaledDepthBias

A single-precision float vector that is used in biasing formulas. For more information about SlopeScaledDepthBias, see the following Remarks section.

[in] DepthClipEnable

A Boolean value that specifies whether the driver should clip vertex z coordinates against the viewport depth range. TRUE indicates to clip; FALSE indicates not to clip.

[in] ScissorEnable

A Boolean value that specifies whether the driver should discard pixels that fall outside the appropriate scissor rectangular area. TRUE indicates to discard; FALSE indicates not to discard.

[in] MultisampleEnable

A Boolean value that specifies whether the driver must follow multiple-sampled rasterization rules. TRUE indicates to follow the rules; FALSE indicates following the rules is not required. Multiple-sampled rasterization rules hold true even if render targets contain only a single sample.

[in] AntialiasedLineEnable

A Boolean value that specifies whether the driver should render lines that follow the antialiased line rasterization rules. TRUE indicates to follow the rules; FALSE indicates following the rules is not required. The driver ignores the value in AntialiasedLineEnable if multiple-sampling rasterization rules are used instead.

Remarks

One of the artifacts with shadow buffer-based shadows is "shadow acne" (that is, a surface that shadows itself in an intermittent way because of inexactness in computing the depth of the surface from the shader that is compared against the depth of the same surface in the shadow buffer). One way to alleviate shadow acne is to use the DepthBias and SlopeScaledDepthBias members when you render a shadow buffer. The intent is to push surfaces out enough when rendering a shadow buffer. When those surfaces are compared against themselves through shader-computed z during the shadow test, the comparison result is consistent across the surface, and local-self-shadowing is avoided.

However, using DepthBias and SlopeScaledDepthBias alone can introduce a few artifacts. For example, an extremely steep polygon causes the bias equation to explode, which pushes the polygon extremely far away from the originating surface in the shadow map. Consider a steep face, with respect to a light, that is pushed away extremely far in relation to the dimensions of the parent object by depth biasing. Suppose this face is surrounded by shallower faces that the bias equation pushed out much less. The resulting shadow map has a huge discontinuity that can cause holes in the shadow that is cast by one surface onto another surface closer than the exploded faces. One way to help alleviate this particular problem is to use the DepthBiasClamp member, which provides an application-settable upper bound (positive or negative) on the magnitude of z biasing.

Requirements

See also

CalcPrivateRasterizerStateSize

CreateRasterizerState