SDL_HINT_RENDER_LINE_METHOD(3)

💖 NAME 💖

SDL_HINT_RENDER_LINE_METHOD — bestie, this is the variable that controls how the 2D render API draws its lines ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <SDL3/SDL_hints.h>

#define SDL_HINT_RENDER_LINE_METHOD "SDL_RENDER_LINE_METHOD"

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so you can set this variable to the following values, and each one is a whole different line-drawing personality 🌸

• "0" — just use the default line drawing method (that's Bresenham's line algorithm, the classic, the icon 👑)
• "1" — use the driver point API with Bresenham's line algorithm. it's correct, but it draws sooo many points 💀
• "2" — use the driver line API. ngl this one occasionally misses line endpoints based on hardware driver quirks 🙈
• "3" — use the driver geometry API. correct, and it draws thicker diagonal lines, which is lowkey a serve 💅

⚠️ okay listen — this hint should be set before creating a renderer. before. not after. iykyk 😭

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

this hint has been around since SDL 3.2.0 🫶

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and that's the whole vibe check, bestie 💖 this page came straight out of the Simple Directmedia Layer era, SDL 3.4.18, and yeah — the header says SDL_HINT_RENDER_LINE_METHOD(3) if you ever need to look it up again 🎀 slay, go draw some lines ✨🦋