I'm trying to work with 2D graphics using Direct3D 9, but am not sure where to start. Right now I'm using a texture as the "draw buffer", and drawing that texture to screen. For the simplest things, it works. But I can't see a way to e.g. draw lines, arcs, and the like onto the texture. How should I go about doing this?
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\$\begingroup\$ Do you need Direct3D? Or is that changeable? \$\endgroup\$PrettyPrincessKitty FS– PrettyPrincessKitty FS2010-12-29 13:34:46 +00:00Commented Dec 29, 2010 at 13:34
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The GDI approach:
- Create a bitmap and a device context
- Render your 3d graphics into the bitmap using GDI
- StretchBlit the bitmap onto the texture
The Pixel approach:
- Lock the texture and fill the pixels using e.g. Bresenham's algorithm.
The Render approach:
Use DrawPrimitiveUP with D3DPT_LINELIST or D3DPT_LINESTRIP for drawing lines.
Arcs, circles and other curved shapes can be composited from lines.
For filled shapes generate meshes using D3DXCreateShpere/Box/Torus etc. and render those using orthographic projection. You'd use a sphere mesh to render filled circles, a box mesh for filled rectangles and a torus would allow for curved shape outlines.
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Use Sprites in Direct3D 9. Very simple way of creating 2D objects in a 3D space.
There's a tutorial here: Sprite Tutorial
I've used sprites to create a 2D HUD in my 3D games and they turn out pretty well.
To draw lines, just use the D3DPT_LINELIST or D3DPT_LINESTRIP primitives with DrawPrimitive().
Drawing Arcs might be a little bit more difficult. You could look into drawing Bezier curves for that: Bezier Curves
