For one of the university courses I was working on a HoloLens 2 project, for which I was given a source code for an UWP application built with OpenXR and DirectX 11. However, I hardly understood what most of the code did, as I had had no prior experience with those technologies.
For that reason I created this little project to learn the basics, step by step:
- Build the basic example following the official tutorial,
- Add ImGui and rewrite the code to be more modular
- Add loading and transforming custom 3D models
- Add support for different shaders per model
- Add loading custom cubemaps (skyboxes) and allow for switching between them at runtime
- Understand and implement Spherical Harmonics Lighting using Robin's Green Spherical Harmonics Lighting: The gritty detail as the main source
This allowed me to build a good enough understanding of DX11 to complete the original project, SHARCC.
