Directx, What a pain in the butt! I learned opengl with no problems when it came to using uniform data and sending it to the shaders. Constant Buffers are not nearly as user friendly. I am sure they have wonderful attributes to them, but geez. But I did get my ellipses working along with my curved lines. I am using control points to define the length and width of both and then creating triangles that have u,v points to define the curves.


The Ellipse uvsuv[0] = Vector2f(0.0f, 2.0f);uv[1] = Vector2f(2.0f, 0.0f);uv[2] = Vector2f(0.0f, 2.0f);
The uvs are 2.0 so a curve of 1 radius will touch the hypotenuse (longest side of a right triangle).
The vertices are added along with indices to form a diamond of triangles. The ellipse will be within the triangle.objects[a].shapes.AddVertex(p[0], col[2], uv[0]);objects[a].shapes.AddVertex(p[1], col[2], uv[1]);objects[a].shapes.AddVertex(p[2], col[2], uv[1]);objects[a].shapes.AddVertex(p[3], col[0], uv[2]);objects[a].shapes.AddVertex(p[4], col[2], uv[0]);objects[a].shapes.AddTriangle(0, 3, 1);objects[a].shapes.AddTriangle(0, 2, 3);objects[a].shapes.AddTriangle(4, 1, 3);objects[a].shapes.AddTriangle(4, 3, 2);
The pixel shader for ellipse

I am discarding any pixel that is greater than a length of 1. I am using the uvs to determine length.float4 PShader(float4 position : SV_POSITION, float4 color : COLOR, float2 uv : UV) : SV_TARGET{float result = sqrt(uv.x * uv.x + uv.y * uv.y);if (color.a < 1.0) color = float4(.50, .50, .50, 1.0) * color;if (result > 1) discard; return color;}
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