DirectXTK | DirectX Tool Kit ( aka DirectXTK | Runtime Evironment library

I am working on a small-ish scale project.

I used CreateWICTextureFromFile() from DirectXTK to load an animated GIF texture.

The idea is to draw the bounding box as 2D corners on the screen after my DiretXTK model is displayed.

I got the bounding box corners form DirectXKT in a std::vector, so

I use DirectX Toolkit to display a 3d model, following the 'Rendering the model' and my pyramid is displayed:

When trying to transform the object, the scaling and rotation work well but I'm not sure how to move the object (translate) around. Basically I'm looking for an algorithm that determines, given the current camera position, focus, viewport and the rendered model (which the DirectX toolkit gives me the bounding box so it's "size") the minimum and maximum values for XYZ translation so the object remains visible.

The bounding box is always the same, no matter the view port size, so how do I compare it's size against my viewport?

Please excuse my newbiness, I'm not a 3D developer, at least yet.

The "Simple Rendering" example which draws a triangle:

I am working on a low resolution 2D game using the DirectXTK and Spritebatch. Everything works fine in windowed mode, however whenever I start or switch to fullscreen the image is blurred to stretch the backbuffer to fit the screen.

I Initialise the device and swap chain with these settings:

I've decided to try the DirectXTK12 audio and it's working fine except for the 3D sound. I'm following the guide from wiki but the sound is always in the left speaker no matter how I position the listener/emitter. What's wrong? My code looks like this:

I am trying to load a texture from a .GLB model in Direct3D 11. The image data is encoded as PNG (I checked the buffer and I could see the file signature in the first 4 bytes). When I try to execute my code, there is an HRESULT returning a WIC "component not found" error (0x88982F50). This is when I try to use WIC from a regular C++ 64-bit Windows API application. Is a component not installed on my machine? Should I use a different approach?

Here is the relevant code:

I've been looking at the WICTextureLoader.cpp file that is part of the DirectX Toolkit. And I'm trying to understand this bit of code:

https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTK/blob/master/Src/WICTextureLoader.cpp#L530

I'm trying to load a DDS texture. For that, I'm using DDSTextureLoader11 provided by DirectXTex. I already am using another texture loader from the same library - WICTextureLoader11.

The problem is, I don't get errors with WICTextureLoader11, however I do get errors either when including only DDSTextureLoader11, or when I use both of them.

This is some of the errors I get when I include both or only DDSTextureLoader11:

/WICTextureLoader11.cpp:51:17: error: redefinition of 'SetDebugObjectName'

/WICTextureLoader11.cpp:273:17: error: redefinition of 'MakeSRGB'

/WICTextureLoader11.cpp:747:17: error: no matching function for call to 'SetDebugObjectName'

/DDSTextureLoader.h:156:35: error: redefinition of default argument

I first thought that it was because both WICTextureLoader and DDSTextureLoader contain same functions, so when including both they "overlap" (i.e. compiler detects redefinition).

I'm using a batchfile to compile my project, where I link against both DirectXTex and DirectXTK. I also tried to include DDSTextureLoader, but without success: I've read the GitHub page of the DirectXTK's DDSTextureLoader, where I include that gives me a link error, which I guess is related to the incorrect call of the function CreateDDSTextureFromFile, so right now I'm trying to find a way to make the right call to the function.

Edit: no, it seems like I'm making the right function call. The wrong thing is that I'm trying to include DDSTextureLoader.h, but it also wants DDSTextureLoader.cpp. However, the errors occur when I include DDSTextureLoader.cpp, such as:

'DDSTextureLoader.cpp': call to 'BitsPerPixel' is ambiguous -> 'DirectXTex.h' or 'DDSTextureLoader' error: redefinition of 'SetDebugTextureInfo', previous definition in 'WICTextureLoader'.

I think, what I need is to include the .cpp file, but somehow get rid of the errors.

Edit2: So far, I tried to get rid of DirectXTex (I don't remember why I even needed it), and I've included WICTextureLoader.cpp and DDSTextureLoader.cpp. I downloaded and built the DirectXTK library, then included #pragma comment(lib, "directxtk.lib"). Now, the weird thing is: when I compile with Clang++, it doesn't throw any errors (but the program crashes after a second-long gray screen), however when I compile with cl (through vcvars64), I get fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'directxtk.lib'.

Edit3: Wait, I don't even know why I even need the directxtk.lib. So I removed it, and it compiles, but nothing works. I thought I needed that static library to resolve external symbol errors when trying to include the header (XXXTextureLoader.h), instead of the source (XXXTextureLoader.cpp).

Edit4: Wait,wait,wait. I think, I'm going crazy. Now, if I include only WICTextureLoader.cpp (and remove DDSTextureLoader.cpp), it gives me this error: (directxtk.lib) mismatch detected for 'RuntimeLibrary': value 'MD_DynamicRelease' doesn't match value 'MT_StaticRelease'. I don't know why I did that, but I'm crazy now, I blindly brute-force my way through resolving this cursed issue. Why can't I just throw both headers in my directory and just simply include them? Is there a way to do so? What should I do? Why doesn't DirectXTK/Tex pages on GitHub give a step-by-step guide to how to use these things? The examples drive me crazy!

Please, help me resolve this what seems to be a simple issue.

Edit5: The last thing that I tried is to include DDSTextureLoader.h and WICTextureLoader.h, and use directxtk.lib, but it gives me these errors:

directxtk.lib(DDSTextureLoader.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'RuntimeLibrary': value 'MD_DynamicRelease' doesn't match value 'MT_StaticRelease' in main-3dacd8.o

directxtk.lib(pch.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'RuntimeLibrary': value 'MD_DynamicRelease' doesn't match value 'MT_StaticRelease' in main-3dacd8.o

LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'MSVCRT' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library

I don't use VS, so I don't know how to use /NODEFAULTLIB.