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BlackDice

BlackDice

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Mar 1, 2004
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does anyone have an algorithm to draw a sphere? Also, I would like to know if drawing your own sphere manually is faster than using Direct3DX's function.

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Use triangle strips, and use a nested loop with spherical coordinates letting theta go from 0 to 2*pi and phi go from 0 to Pi. It's not pretty, but it's what you have to do. I'm not sure about D3DX's sphere drawing; I didn't even know it had one...
 
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