Hi guys !
I have a damn problem:
I have a lot of "billboard"/bitmap-graphics to draw in my game. I have a lot
of frames of 2d-troopers running around, and i cache them in realtime into
a texture when they are needed. Then when i want to display them i use
calculate the right texture-coordinates to get the right part of the
caching texture and simple draw a quad with DrawPrimitive.
I also have a lot of smoke effects and stuff like that, that work the same
way.
So far so good.
Applying a diffuse color to these objects (troopers, smoke particels, aso.) is
no problem when I'm drawing it with DrawPrimitive only. But now i want to use
vertex buffers to speed things up. These vertex buffers should ofcourse not include any color information, because the color should still be dynamically
changable ?
So is there any possibility to just define a FVF like the below one, filling
vertex buffers at one initial time with vertices of that type, and then
just switch diffuse color of it before DrawPrimitiveVB () ??
#define D3DFVF_SAVERTEX ( D3DFVF_XYZRHW | D3DFVF_TEX1 )
typedef struct
{
D3DVALUE sx;
D3DVALUE sy;
D3DVALUE sz;
float rhw;
D3DVALUE tu; /* Texture coordinates */
D3DVALUE tv;
} D3DSAVERTEX;
ah yeah, here's a screen:
Cheers,
Roman
