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I am studying the directx9tutorial.com web site.one of their exercises is to change the shape of a triangle during runtime. Here is some of the code given from this tutorial.
// this is the function used to render a single frame void render_frame(void) { d3ddev->Clear(0, NULL, D3DCLEAR_TARGET, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 0), 1.0f, 0); d3ddev->BeginScene(); // select which vertex format we are using d3ddev->SetFVF(CUSTOMFVF); // select the vertex buffer to display d3ddev->SetStreamSource(0, v_buffer, 0, sizeof(CUSTOMVERTEX)); // copy the vertex buffer to the back buffer d3ddev->DrawPrimitive(D3DPT_TRIANGLELIST, 0, 1); d3ddev->EndScene(); d3ddev->Present(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL); } // this is the function that cleans up Direct3D and COM void cleanD3D(void) { v_buffer->Release(); // close and release the vertex buffer d3ddev->Release(); // close and release the 3D device d3d->Release(); // close and release Direct3D } // this is the function that puts the 3D models into video RAM void init_graphics(void) { // create the vertices using the CUSTOMVERTEX struct CUSTOMVERTEX vertices[] = { { 400.0f, 62.5f, 0.5f, 1.0f, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 255), }, { 650.0f, 500.0f, 0.5f, 1.0f, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 255, 0), }, { 150.0f, 500.0f, 0.5f, 1.0f, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255, 0, 0), }, }; // create a vertex buffer interface called v_buffer d3ddev->CreateVertexBuffer(3*sizeof(CUSTOMVERTEX), 0, CUSTOMFVF, D3DPOOL_MANAGED, &v_buffer, NULL); VOID* pVoid; // a void pointer // lock v_buffer and load the vertices into it v_buffer->Lock(0, 0, (void**)&pVoid, 0); memcpy(pVoid, vertices, sizeof(vertices)); v_buffer->Unlock();
