DxDrawMaterialPrimitive3D

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This function draws a 3D primitive shape with material applied to it in the 3D world - rendered for one frame. This should be used in conjunction with onClientRender in order to display continuously. If image file is used, it should ideally have dimensions that are a power of two, to prevent possible blurring. Power of two: 2px, 4px, 8px, 16px, 32px, 64px, 128px, 256px, 512px, 1024px...

Syntax

bool dxDrawMaterialPrimitive3D ( primitiveType pType, mixed material, bool postGUI, table vertice1 [, table vertice2, ...] )

Required Arguments

  • pType: Type of primitive to be drawn.
  • image: Either a material element or a filepath of the image which is going to be drawn. (.dds images are also supported). Image files should ideally have dimensions that are a power of two, to prevent possible blurring. Use a texture created with dxCreateTexture to speed up drawing.
  • postGUI: A bool representing whether the line should be drawn on top of or behind any ingame GUI (rendered by CEGUI).
  • vertices: Tables representing each primitive vertice, required amount of them is determined by primitive type.

Allowed types

Available primitive types.

More info on primitives may be found on this MSDN site

  • pointlist: Renders the vertices as a collection of isolated points.
  • linelist: Renders the vertices as a list of isolated straight line segments.
  • linestrip: Renders the vertices as a single polyline.
  • trianglelist: Renders the specified vertices as a sequence of isolated triangles. Each group of three vertices defines a separate triangle.
  • trianglestrip: Renders the vertices as a triangle strip.
  • trianglefan: Renders the vertices as a triangle fan.

Vertices format

  • posX: An float representing the X position of the vertice in the GTA world.
  • posY: An float representing the Y position of the vertice in the GTA world.
  • posZ: An float representing the Z position of the vertice in the GTA world.
  • color (optional): An integer of the hex color, produced using tocolor or 0xAARRGGBB (AA = alpha, RR = red, GG = green, BB = blue). If it's not specified, white color is used.
  • u: An float representing the relative X coordinate of the top left corner of the material which should be drawn from image
  • v: An float representing the relative Y coordinate of the top left corner of the material which should be drawn from image

Returns

Returns a true if the operation was successful, false otherwise.

Example

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This function can be used to draw billboards in the game world. You have to understand the mathematical models about the human vision to calculate the proper vertices.

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