Hi, please help me resolve next problems:

1) how to draw triangle list and line list (like this http://imageshack.us...capture2pu.png/)

with different colours from one vertex buffer? I have 1 buffer which contains points and colors. I have 2 index buffers for it (for line list and triangle list). I want to draw triangles with color from buffer and white (or black or whatever) lines.

2) I've tried to implement shaders to make different front and back triangle colors, but it doesn't work:


//drawing function:

private void RedrawPrimitives()
        {

            var effect = Effect.FromFile(d3dDevice, "Shader.fx", ShaderFlags.None);
            var technique = effect.GetTechnique(0);
            var pass = effect.GetPass(technique, 0);
            
            d3dDevice.VertexFormat = myVertexFormat;
            d3dDevice.VertexDeclaration = vertexDecl;

            d3dDevice.Clear(ClearFlags.Target, SharpDX.Color.White, 1.0f, 0);
            d3dDevice.BeginScene();

            effect.Technique = technique;
            effect.Begin();
            effect.BeginPass(0);

            d3dDevice.Indices = triangles;
            d3dDevice.SetStreamSource(0, vertices, 0, Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(Vertex)));
            d3dDevice.DrawIndexedPrimitive(PrimitiveType.TriangleList, 0, 0, totalPointsCount, 0, totalPointsCount / 2);

            
            d3dDevice.Indices = lines;          
            d3dDevice.SetStreamSource(0, vertices, 0, Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(Vertex)));
            d3dDevice.DrawIndexedPrimitive(PrimitiveType.LineList, 0, 0, totalPointsCount, 0, totalPointsCount);

            effect.EndPass();
            effect.End();

            d3dDevice.EndScene();
            d3dDevice.Present();

            effect.Dispose();
            technique.Dispose();
            pass.Dispose();
        }

//and shader (which doesn't work)

sampler s0;

struct VertexShaderInput
{
    float4 Position : POSITION0;
	float4 Color : COLOR0;
	float4 face : VFACE;

    // TODO: add input channels such as texture
    // coordinates and vertex colors here.
};

struct VertexShaderOutput 
{
    float4 Position : POSITION0;
	float4 Color : COLOR0;

    // TODO: add vertex shader outputs such as colors and textureasdfasd
    // coordinates here. These values will automatically be interpolated
    // over the triangle, and provided as input to your pixel shader.
};

VertexShaderOutput VertexShaderFunction(VertexShaderInput input)
{
	VertexShaderOutput output;
	output.Position = mul(input.Position, input.Color);
	output.Color=input.Color;
    // TODO: add your vertex shader code here.

    return output;
}

float4 PixelShaderFunction(float2 coords: TEXCOORD0) : COLOR0
{
    float4 color = tex2D(s0, coords);
	color.rgb = color.r;

    return color;
}

technique Technique1
{
    pass Pass1
    {
		VertexShader = compile vs_2_0 VertexShaderFunction();
        PixelShader = compile ps_2_0 PixelShaderFunction();
    }
}

1. What have you tried?

2. Define "doesn't work". What happens?

I see that your PixelShader function is supposed to get a VertexShaderOutput as a parameter, but instead you're passing it this :

"float2 coords: TEXCOORD0". It should rather be "VertexShaderOutput coords".

Other than this, I would suggest to go through some HLSL examples from DirectX SDK and more from other good online references. That will definitely help.

Well disabling blending would be device.SetRenderState(RenderState.AlphaBlendEnable, false); then. I misunderstood that in your previous thread. Not sure if this actually solves your problem. Can you provide a screenshot and what other render states you used ? And since one can change render states with the effect framework, the shader file is relevant, too. (Please, don't delete code in your posts, rather update).

My image contains many colors, but it's ok, each point has it's own color and they might be different. The problems are:
1) As you can see, image is half transparent. Enabling/disabling alpha blend gives nothing.
2) Over the triangles I want to draw Lines from the same vertex buffer but with different color (white, for example). Drawing lines is not a problem, but how can I ignore their color, declarated in vertex buffer?

Render states, which I currently use:

d3dDevice.SetRenderState(RenderState.Lighting, 0); // Turn off D3D Lighting
d3dDevice.SetRenderState(RenderState.CullMode, Cull.None);
d3dDevice.SetRenderState(RenderState.FillMode, FillMode.Solid);
d3dDevice.SetRenderState(RenderState.AlphaBlendEnable, false);

and shader

struct VertexShaderInput
{
float4 Position : POSITION0;
float4 Color : COLOR0;
};

struct PixelShaderInput
{
float4 Color : COLOR0;
float face : VFACE;
};

struct VertexShaderOutput
{
float4 Position : POSITION0;
float4 Color : COLOR0;
};

float4x4 worldViewProj;

VertexShaderOutput VertexShaderFunction(VertexShaderInput input)
{
VertexShaderOutput output;

output.Position = mul(input.Position, worldViewProj);
output.Color = input.Color;
output.Color.a = 0.0f;

return output;
}

float4 PixelShaderFunction(PixelShaderInput input) : COLOR0
{
float4 back = float4(200.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
//input.Color.a = 0.0f;

if(input.face>0)
{
return input.Color;
}
else
{
return input.Color;
}

}

technique Technique1
{
pass Pass1
{
VertexShader = compile vs_3_0 VertexShaderFunction();
PixelShader = compile ps_3_0 PixelShaderFunction();
}
}

Also I've tried to enable depth buffer (ZBuffer) but id didn't help. Picture was drawn same as without it.

d3dDevice = new Device(
                         d3d,
                         0,
                         DeviceType.Hardware,
                         panel1.Handle,
                         CreateFlags.HardwareVertexProcessing,                       
                         new PresentParameters()
                         {
                             Windowed = true,
                             SwapEffect = SwapEffect.Discard,
                             BackBufferFormat = Format.Unknown,
                             PresentationInterval = PresentInterval.Immediate,
                             BackBufferWidth = panel1.Width,
                             BackBufferHeight = panel1.Height,
                             EnableAutoDepthStencil = true,
                             AutoDepthStencilFormat = Format.D16
                         });

If you need more information, please let me know and I will post it

Yura,

Just check this method in your shader and see if you think this is how it should be (because I definitely don't think so).

float4 PixelShaderFunction(PixelShaderInput input) : COLOR0  // Use VertexShaderOutput
{
float4 back = float4(200.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f); // why?
//input.Color.a = 0.0f;
 
if(input.face>0)
{
return input.Color; // nothing
}
else
{
return input.Color; // nothing
}
 
}

Yura,

Just check this method in your shader and see if you think this is how it should be (because I definitely don't think so).

float4 PixelShaderFunction(PixelShaderInput input) : COLOR0  // Use VertexShaderOutput
{
float4 back = float4(200.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f); // why?
//input.Color.a = 0.0f;
 
if(input.face>0)
{
return input.Color; // nothing
}
else
{
return input.Color; // nothing
}
 
}

I've implemented VFACE semantic. If I'm looking to a front of the primitive (face>0), I'm returning true vertex color, else, I'm returning red color (back). It works fine, I've just disabled it for a time, so, independent of VFACE I'm returning true color of vertex.

Thanks for suggestion!