ALLEGRO_VERTEX(3alleg5)

💖 NAME 💖

ALLEGRO_VERTEX — ok so this is the Allegro 5 API page for the generic vertex struct, bestie, and it's lowkey the whole blueprint for how one single point in your primitives gets described. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro_primitives.h>

typedef struct ALLEGRO_VERTEX ALLEGRO_VERTEX;

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like, this defines the generic vertex type — the vibe is: a 3D position, a color, and texture coordinates for a single texture. That's the whole glow-up package. 🦋

Heads up though: at this time, the software driver for this addon cannot render 3D primitives. Not a drill, just a fact. 😭

If you're only doing 2D primitives, just set z to 0 and you're slaying. 💅

Also, super important: you must initialize all members of this struct when you're using it. Like, all of them. No half-effort. One single exception to that rule — the u and v variables, which can be left uninitialized when you are not using textures. Iconic loophole, honestly. ✨

Fields, aka the cast of characters: 👑

• x, y, z — Position of the vertex (float)
• u, v — Texture coordinates measured in pixels (float)
• color — ALLEGRO_COLOR(3alleg5) structure, storing the color of the vertex

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ALLEGRO_PRIM_ATTR(3alleg5)

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k bye bestie, go initialize your structs 💜 — this has been your girl from the Allegro reference manual, ALLEGRO_VERTEX(3alleg5), aka manual 3alleg5. fr fr, no cap. 🫶🌸