D3DPRIMITIVETYPE
Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (October 2004)

D3DPRIMITIVETYPE Enumerated Type


Defines the primitives supported by Microsoft Direct3D.

Syntax

typedef enum _D3DPRIMITIVETYPE {
    D3DPT_POINTLIST = 1,
    D3DPT_LINELIST = 2,
    D3DPT_LINESTRIP = 3,
    D3DPT_TRIANGLELIST = 4,
    D3DPT_TRIANGLESTRIP = 5,
    D3DPT_TRIANGLEFAN = 6,
    D3DPT_FORCE_DWORD = 0x7fffffff
} D3DPRIMITIVETYPE;

Constants

D3DPT_POINTLIST

Renders the vertices as a collection of isolated points. This value is unsupported for indexed primitives.

D3DPT_LINELIST

Renders the vertices as a list of isolated straight line segments.

D3DPT_LINESTRIP

Renders the vertices as a single polyline.

D3DPT_TRIANGLELIST

Renders the specified vertices as a sequence of isolated triangles. Each group of three vertices defines a separate triangle.

Back-face culling is affected by the current winding-order render state.

D3DPT_TRIANGLESTRIP

Renders the vertices as a triangle strip. The backface-culling flag is automatically flipped on even-numbered triangles.

D3DPT_TRIANGLEFAN

Renders the vertices as a triangle fan.

D3DPT_FORCE_DWORD

Forces this enumeration to compile to 32 bits in size. This value is not used.

Remarks

Using Triangle Strips or Triangle Fans is often more efficient than using triangle lists because fewer vertices are duplicated.

Enumerated Type Information

Headerd3d9types.h
Minimum operating systems Windows 98

See Also

IDirect3DDevice9::DrawIndexedPrimitive, IDirect3DDevice9::DrawIndexedPrimitiveUP, IDirect3DDevice9::DrawPrimitive, IDirect3DDevice9::DrawPrimitiveUP


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