Pages

Simple Circle in XNA


This post is about creating a simple circle in XNA using VertexPositionColor elements and LineStrip primitive.
Lets call our class Circle.

Members:
//List of vertices
List<VertexPositionColor> _Vertices;
 
//Convert to array to avoid ToArray for every draw
VertexPositionColor[] _VertexArray;
 
//Color of the vertices
Color _VertexColor;
 
//Main game class
Game_Game;
BasicEffect _Effect;
 
//Transforms for the circle
Matrix _Transforms;
Vector3 _Position, _Scale, _Rotation;
 
//Radius of the circle
float _Radius;

Properties:
public Vector3 Position
{
get{ return_Position; }
set{_Position=value;Transform();}
}
 
public Vector3 Rotation
{
get{return_Rotation;}
set{_Rotation=value;Transform();}
}
 
public Vector3 Scale
{
get{return_Scale;}
set{_Scale=value;Transform();}
}
 
public MatrixTransforms
{
get{return_Transforms;}
set{_Transforms=value;}
}


Constants:
//This indicates that every 5 degree 
//a point on the cirumference will be added
//Ex: 360/5 = 72 points will be used
int DEGREE_INCREMENT = 5;

Constructor:
public Circle(Game game, Color color, float radius)
{
_Game = game;
_Effect = new BasicEffect(_Game.GraphicsDevice, null);
_Effect.VertexColorEnabled = true;
_VertexColor = color;
_Transforms = Matrix.Identity;
_Radius = radius;
_Scale = Vector3.One;
 
_Vertices = new List<VertexPositionColor>();
Setup();
 
_VertexArray = _Vertices.ToArray();
}

Setup Function:
void Setup()
{
//For each number of points : 360/ DEGREE_INCREMENT
for (int i = 0; i <= 360; i+= DEGREE_INCREMENT)
{
VertexPositionColor tmp = new VertexPositionColor();
 
// X => R * Cos(Angle), Y = 0, Z => R * Sin(Angle)
tmp.Position = new Vector3(_Radius * (float)Math.Cos(MathHelper.ToRadians(i)), 0, _Radius * (float)Math.Sin(MathHelper.ToRadians(i)));
tmp.Color = _VertexColor;
_Vertices.Add(tmp);                
} 
}

Transform Function:
//Update transform when pos, rot, scale is changed
void Transform()
{
_Transforms = Matrix.CreateScale(_Scale) * 
Matrix.CreateFromYawPitchRoll(_Rotation.Y, _Rotation.X, _Rotation.Z) * 
Matrix.CreateTranslation(_Position);
}

Draw Function:
public void Draw()
{
//Tell the device we are sending Vertexpositioncolor elements
_Game.GraphicsDevice.VertexDeclaration = new VertexDeclaration(_Game.GraphicsDevice, VertexPositionColor.VertexElements);
_Effect.Begin();
foreach (EffectPass pass in _Effect.CurrentTechnique.Passes)
{
pass.Begin();
 
//Set the world, view, projection matrices
_Effect.World = _Transforms;
_Effect.View = Camera.View;
_Effect.Projection = Camera.Projection;
 
//Draw primitive: n points => n-1 lines
_Game.GraphicsDevice.DrawUserPrimitives<VertexPositionColor>(PrimitiveType.LineStrip, _VertexArray, 0, _Vertices.Count - 1);
pass.End();
}
 
_Effect.End(); 
}

Screen shots with different Degree increments:


Next up - Sphere

6 comments:

  1. Have you unit tested your code??? I hate to say it but I've had a really hard time testing this. I really need a sphere drawing utility to test bounding volumes and ran into a plethora of build errors with your code. Perhaps next time try providing a "complete file" download for people like myself who might be interested.

    I would be happy to see if you get it working and choose to post a full file/zip that works. Thanks!

    ReplyDelete
  2. @JW: Wow!! Someone actually found my blog! I wrote this for personal memories actually - never thought anyone would read it.
    Have no clue where to upload ZIP files in blogger. New to this. Gimme ur email ID - ill mail you the complete solution. May be i missed out some code.

    Thanks.
    Vik

    ReplyDelete
  3. Hi

    Do you think u can send me your code for drawing of circle?

    I am VERY NEW to game programming and slowly picking up....

    ReplyDelete
  4. Can you send me the code ?

    thanks in advance,

    Claudio Lins

    ReplyDelete
  5. Sorry Dinho.. it's been too long and I don't have source code.

    If u intend on making games then switch over to Unity3D or UDK.
    If ur inention is 2 learn gfx programming then I strongly suggest u go with Directx11 (native c++). XNA is way outdated and it's pointless investing ur time on it.

    ReplyDelete

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.