Managed DirectX® 9 Kick Start: Graphics and Game Programming

Rendering Other Primitive Types

All of the code we've written thus far concentrated on drawing a single type of primitive, namely a list of triangles. However, there are actually numerous different primitive types we can draw. The following list describes these primitive types:

• PointList— This is a self-describing primitive type, as it will render the data as a list of points. You cannot use this primitive type if you are drawing indexed primitives (which we'll cover later in this chapter). See Figure 4.1.

  Figure 4.1. Point lists.

  

• LineList— Renders each pair of vertices as individual lines. You must pass in an even number of vertices (at least ...