Vertex Point Size limit

[hamdrax24]

When rendering a 3d model as a pointlist the size of the points are limited to a maximum of 250. Is there a way i could remove this limit?

 

[Simon Gust]

I remember mike saying that primitives are deprecated.
I assume that you are using the d3d_primitive_begin() and d3d_primitive_end() method.

You should use a vertex buffer in that case.

 

[hamdrax24]

I'm currently using a vertex buffer so that can't be the cause.

 

[Simon Gust]

vertex buffers do have a size limit. What do you mean by Vertex Point Size limit?
The amount of vertices? Or the size of data you put into it?
The more bloated your vertex format is, the less points you will be able to store,
but 250 does seem unreasonable.

 

[hamdrax24]

I don't mean the vertex buffer size. If you draw a vertex buffer but set the primitive type to pr_pointlist the individual vertex appear as point though they are very hard to see. It is possible to scale the size using a shader but the largest it would go is 250

 

[elementbound]

Last time I checked, the maximum point size was tied to a hardware limit.
Alternatively, you could try expanding your points to rectangles and putting some texture on them.

 

[Simon Gust]

You can try changing the matrix before submitting the vertex buffer instead of using a shader though I doubt it would make a difference.

 

[hamdrax24]

@Simon Gust Tried that already and its still the same.

@elementbound I'll try testing it on a different hardware and see what happens.

 

[hamdrax24]

Just tried it on a different hardware but he results are the same.

 

[Bingdom]

Just to be clear, you only have one vertex_format_add_position_3d in the format?

You only need one.

 

[hamdrax24]

Yes.

 

[lolslayer]

I know your problem, there are hardware limits to this. You'll Always hit a limit here that you can't bypass, you'll have to live with this sadly

 

[hamdrax24]

I was just reading the directx9 article and i found out that the maximum size is actually set in the directxAPI.

 

[lolslayer]

What target are you working with actually? Like operating system and specs

 

[hamdrax24]

Windows 10 with a 1st gen i5 and intelHD.