tetris vertex buffer

Hey bud,

To be honest there is a maximum number of vertices here, it's something like the maximum number of smallest blocks times 2. I would be tempted to create a vertex buffer to accomodate this and then just keep track carefully of what you are rendering from it.

Since you are not going to be dealing with all that many vertices this would probably be the best solution.

Dave

Thanks Dave. I considered that approach before and i'm sure i could implement it, however i wanted to try and make my tetris game a sort of platform to build my next project (a side scroller) from.
I'm pretty sure that for a side scroller the vertex buffer would have to be dynamic. Then again i'm probably wrong...
Or if someone could share the concept they use for larger games for putting all the vertices into the vertex buffer, it would save me a lot of head scratching.

I'd recommend using a single 1 x 1 vertex buffer, and having each game object store its own texture(preferably reference to), width, height, location, and rotation.

Before you render each object, you'll need to do something like this.

D3DXMATRIX matRot, matTrans, matScale, matWorld;
D3DXMatrixRotationZ( &matRot, m_fThisObjectsOrientationInRadians );
D3DXMatrixTranslation( &matTrans, m_fThisObjectsXWorldLocation, m_fThisObjectsYWorldLocation, 0 );
D3DXMatrixScaling( &matScale, m_fObjectWidth, m_fObjectHeight, 1.0f );

matWorld = matScale * matRot * matTrans;
pd3dDevice->SetTransform( D3DTS_WORLD, &matWorld );

Then set the texture and render the object.

Hope that helps.