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Started by aftabazmi October 10, 2008 05:06 AM

2 comments, last by aftabazmi 15 years, 6 months ago

aftabazmi

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October 10, 2008 05:06 AM

I know that we can draw sphere using mesh(D3DXMesh)....Is there any other method of drawing sphere...i heard that we can draw it using tetrahedron???? plzz some one please send me the code to draw sphere...

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Evil Steve

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October 10, 2008 05:17 AM

You can calculate the position of all the vertices, fill a vertex and index buffer, and render it like that, yes. Google gives thousands of results. Example

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October 10, 2008 08:17 AM

Also, there's D3DXCreateSphere (see d3dx9shape.h).

aftabazmi

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October 11, 2008 09:20 AM

Thanxx for the help...

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