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How to draw filled in polygon

by Matt Fischman · in Torque X 2D · 07/04/2008 (11:58 pm) · 4 replies

I cant figure out how to do this.. the T2DPolygon class is using line strips which I don't believe can be filled in. Is there another/better method for doing this?
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Associate John Kanalakis
EnvyGames
#1
07/05/2008 (12:33 am)
Torque X doesn't have anything built-in to do this. What kind of effect are you trying to accomplish with this, maybe there's another way around it.

John K.

Torque Owner Matt Fischman
#2
07/05/2008 (12:38 am)
I'm trying to generate an explosion looking polygon, basically a circle with with triangles jutting out, random sizes and angles. I've got it working as a T2DPolygon, line strip, but I want to color it. Is there no way to created colored/textured polygon?

Torque Owner Timothy Cash
#3
08/02/2008 (8:47 am)
Investigate polygon triangulation

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~dm/CODE/GEM/chapter.html

-Tim

Torque Owner Scott Goodwin
#4
08/03/2008 (8:58 am)
T2DPolygon is drawn as PrimitiveType.LineStrip (i.e., a list of lines). It should be easy for Pro owners to create a new class T2DPolygonFill using PrimitiveType.TriangleFan to produce a filled polygon. Might also be possible to expose the _material to put a texture on the triangles (not sure ablout that).

Edit: I posted the code in the private forum. See www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=77768