[gameprogrammer] Re: RES: Re: DirectX Line and Triangle
- From: "Alan Wolfe" <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:21:34 -0700
the triangle you want to put on the lines, do you want it to be 3
dimensional (ie a pyramid, not a triangle?) or do you want it to just really
be a triangle.
also, when you say you are in 3d do you mean that your line segments all
have different X,Y and Z values? or are they all on the same Z value?
On 7/14/08, Edilson Vasconcelos de Melo Junior <dirso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I'm in 3d… can you help me a little more?
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> Thank you very much for your help,
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> Dirso
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> *De:* gameprogrammer-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> gameprogrammer-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *Em nome de *Alan Wolfe
> *Enviada em:* segunda-feira, 14 de julho de 2008 17:38
> *Para:* gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Assunto:* [gameprogrammer] Re: DirectX Line and Triangle
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> Hey Dirso,
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> Here's a plan of attack (assuming you are in 2d)
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> Calculate the normal of the line segment to get a normalized vector
> perpendicular to the line, this will be useful to figure out the vertices
> for the flat back side of the triangle. Call this NX and NY.
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> Calculate the normalized vector of the line, call this LX and LY.
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> Find the midpoint of the line call this MX and MY.
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> Figure out how wide and how tall you want the triangle to be, call this
> TWidth and THeight.
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> If you do the above, here's how to find each of the 3 vertices for the
> triangle for each line:
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> Vertex 1:
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> *start at the midpoint
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> *subtract LX,LY multiplied by TWidth/2
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> *add NX,NY * THeight/2
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> Vertex 2:
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> *start at the midpoint
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> *add LX,LY * TWidth/2
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> Vertex 3:
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> *start at the midpoint
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> *subtract LX,LY multiplied by TWidth/2
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> *subtract NX,NY * THeight/2
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> That will give you the vertices in a clockwise order, so watch out for back
> face culling if you have clockwise culled (:
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> On 7/14/08, *Edilson Vasconcelos de Melo Junior* <dirso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I have a CustomVertex.PositionColored[] object that represents a line and
> I use the DrawUserPrimitives(PrimitiveType.LineStrip, this.linePoints.Length
> - 1, this.linePoints); to draw it on screen
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> Now I need to draw a small triangle aligned to each line segment and one of
> each vertex must "pointy" to the finish point of the segment. How can I do
> that?
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> Something like the attached picture, but not that ugly.
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> Thanks,
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> Dirso.
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