quad3d(3alleg4)

💖 quad3d — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is a page from the Allegro manual, section 3alleg4, and it's literally all about drawing 3d quads. no cap. it's giving "graphics girlie who also knows her vertex structures" ✨

✨ NAME ✨

quad3d, quad3d_f — draws a 3d quad onto the specified bitmap, courtesy of the Allegro game programming library. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

void quad3d(BITMAP *bmp, int type, BITMAP *tex, V3D *v1, *v2, *v3, *v4);

void quad3d_f(BITMAP *bmp, int type, BITMAP *tex, V3D_f *v1, *v2, *v3,
*v4);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so we're drawing 3d quads, and you get to pick your vibe: fixed point vertex structures (V3D) or floating point ones (V3D_f). pick your fighter, both slay 💅

these two are lowkey just doing the exact same thing as calling:

polygon3d(bmp, type, tex, 4, v[])

or

polygon3d_f(bmp, type, tex, 4, v[])

fr fr, that's it. a quad is just a polygon that showed up with four vertices instead of however many. main character energy 🫶

heads up bestie: go read the beginning of the chapter "Polygon rendering" — that's where the list of rendering types you can pass in for type lives. i can't manifest them out of thin air, they're all listed over there. 🧚

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• polygon3d(3alleg4) — the parent function, the blueprint, the moment
• triangle3d(3alleg4) — quad but make it three vertices
• ex3d(3alleg4) — the example, go look at it, it's iconic

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈 this was Allegro, version 4.4.3 — the quad3d page, section 3alleg4. mwah, go draw some quads, ily 💖💅✨