D3D11: How to draw a simple pixel aligned line?

Question

I tried to draw a line between two vertices with D3D11. I have some experiences in D3D9 and D3D11, but it seems to be a problem in D3D11 to draw a line, which starts in one

Answer 1

I encountered the exact same issue, and i fixed thank to this discussion.

My vertices are stored into a D3D11_PRIMITIVE_TOPOLOGY_LINELIST vertex buffer.

Thank for this usefull post, you made me fix this bug today. It was REALLY trickier than i thought at start.

Here a few line of my code.

// projection matrix code
float width = 1024.0f;
float height = 768.0f;
DirectX::XMMATRIX offsetedProj = DirectX::XMMatrixOrthographicRH(width, height, 0.0f, 10.0f);
DirectX::XMMATRIX proj = DirectX::XMMatrixMultiply(DirectX::XMMatrixTranslation(- width / 2, height / 2, 0), offsetedProj);

// view matrix code
// screen top left pixel is 0,0 and bottom right is 1023,767
DirectX::XMMATRIX viewMirrored = DirectX::XMMatrixLookAtRH(eye, at, up);
DirectX::XMMATRIX mirrorYZ = DirectX::XMMatrixScaling(1.0f, -1.0f, -1.0f);
DirectX::XMMATRIX view = DirectX::XMMatrixMultiply(mirrorYZ, viewMirrored);

// draw line code in my visual debug tool.
void TVisualDebug::DrawLine2D(int2 const& parStart,
                              int2 const& parEnd,
                              TColor parColorStart,
                              TColor parColorEnd,
                              float parDepth)

{
    FLine2DsDirty = true;

    // D3D11_PRIMITIVE_TOPOLOGY_LINELIST
    float2 const startFloat(parStart.x() + 0.5f, parStart.y() + 0.5f);
    float2 const endFloat(parEnd.x() + 0.5f, parEnd.y() + 0.5f);
    float2 const diff = endFloat - startFloat;
    // return normalized difference or float2(1.0f, 1.0f) if distance between the points is null. Then multiplies the result by something a little bigger than 0.5f, 0.5f is not enough.
    float2 const diffNormalized =  diff.normalized_replace_if_null(float2(1.0f, 1.0f)) * 0.501f;

    size_t const currentIndex = FLine2Ds.size();
    FLine2Ds.resize(currentIndex + 2);
    render::vertex::TVertexColor* baseAddress = FLine2Ds.data() + currentIndex;
    render::vertex::TVertexColor& v0 = baseAddress[0];
    render::vertex::TVertexColor& v1 = baseAddress[1];
    v0.FPosition = float3(startFloat.x(), startFloat.y(), parDepth);
    v0.FColor = parColorStart;
    v1.FPosition = float3(endFloat.x() + diffNormalized.x(), endFloat.y() + diffNormalized.y(), parDepth);
    v1.FColor = parColorEnd;
}

I tested Several DrawLine2D calls, and it seems to work well.