head up display

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Started by critical March 01, 2004 12:35 AM

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March 01, 2004 12:35 AM

i want to display a hud in my d3d game, what is the best way to display these graphics? billboarding? or is there another way? [edited by - critical on March 1, 2004 1:36:17 AM]

evolutional

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March 01, 2004 01:49 AM

www.andypike.com

Look up 2d in 3d.

or you could just draw XYZRHW vertices, whatever floats your boat

Fidelio66

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March 01, 2004 05:05 AM

Personally I would use the ID3DXSprite interface. It supports screen coordinates, alpha blending and it''s fast and simple to use.

critical

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March 01, 2004 09:04 AM

thx for the stuff of www.andypike.com ive printedit already, and it really helps, thx again!!

circlesoft

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March 01, 2004 04:37 PM

quote:Original post by Fidelio66
Personally I would use the ID3DXSprite interface. It supports screen coordinates, alpha blending and it''s fast and simple to use.

I second that. That AndyPike tutorial was written for DX8, before ID3DXSprite was created. The sprite interface is much easier that doing all that other stuff. It probably will take less than 15 lines of code for you to get a bitmap rendering on-screen (and simple lines of code, none of those real complex ones).

Dustin Franklin
Mircrosoft DirectX MVP

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critical

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March 02, 2004 12:16 AM

yesterday at home ive done this the way mentioned in this andypike tutorial, its working... but when you tell me a sprite is better way to do this, is it also faster?? and are there also tutorials on this?

Ademan555

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March 02, 2004 12:25 AM

Sprites are VERY easy to use, its basically a quad wrapped up all nice for yah, id use it, on my mid- high end machine and quite a few sprites, im getting ~ 6000 fps, another plus is you can rotate them very easily, so you could create some cool animated hud effects with that and the scaling ability, look on msdn, its pretty self explanitory
-Dan

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HanSoL0

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March 02, 2004 03:12 PM

I''m gonna give another vote for the ID3DXSprite interface. I use it for all my HUD and front-end graphics. Very clean, very easy to use, and pretty friggin'' fast.

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