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Dark GDK / How do i render individual vertex's

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binsky
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Posted: 25th May 2010 23:08
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Hey guys, just a real quick question. Is there a way or command that can render vertex's for me. Basically i want to make a custom model loader, and im not sure how to go about displaying the models vertices. I know how to extract the vertex data such as position XYZ, but how can i render a vertex on the screen using that data. Should i use memblocks?
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bloodmage2
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Posted: 26th May 2010 18:35
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well, individual verticies, i don't know. you can, however, render individual planes and shapes using matricies. not quite sure the exact functions to do that, look in the help file if you need more.

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Hassan
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i dont have gdk installed at the moment so i can't check; but you might be able to, well, look at the gdk object structure, (sOBJECT or something?), see if you can get a pointer to an ID3DXMesh interface from it, if so, i think i can help you

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Matty H
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Could you just create small spheres and position them at the vertex positions?

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Quote: "Could you just create small spheres and position them at the vertex positions?"


Yes, I'd recommend this as an easy way.
Or you could draw DirectX 3D dots at the vertex positions.
Or loop one temporary object from one vertex position to another and store the ObjectScreenX & Y values in an array, then put sprites on them or something.
Or...
I wonder if there's a shader method to do this...

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binsky
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Err i think i may of been saying this wrong the entire time... but i want to like draw triangles make from vertex's and indices. I think the easiest way is to use memblocks, and then fill one with the information about the vertex, etc and them make a mesh from the memblock.
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