D3DCLIPSTATUS8

Describes the current clip status.

typedef struct _D3DCLIPSTATUS8 {
   DWORD ClipUnion;
   DWORD ClipIntersection;
} D3DCLIPSTATUS8;

Members

ClipUnion

Clip union flags that describe the current clip status. This member can be one or more of the following flags.

D3DCS_ALL

Combination of all clip flags.

D3DCS_BACK

All vertices are clipped by the back plane of the viewing frustum.

D3DCS_BOTTOM

All vertices are clipped by the bottom plane of the viewing frustum.

D3DCS_FRONT

All vertices are clipped by the front plane of the viewing frustum.

D3DCS_LEFT

All vertices are clipped by the left plane of the viewing frustum.

D3DCS_RIGHT

All vertices are clipped by the right plane of the viewing frustum.

D3DCS_TOP

All vertices are clipped by the top plane of the viewing frustum.

D3DCS_PLANE0 through D3DCS_PLANE5

Application-defined clipping planes.

ClipIntersection

Clip intersection flags that describe the current clip status. This member can take the same flags as ClipUnion.

Remarks

When clipping is enabled during vertex processing (by ProcessVertices, DrawPrimitive, or other drawing functions), Microsoft® Direct3D® computes a clip code for every vertex. The clip code is a combination of D3DCS_* bits. When a vertex is outside a particular clipping plane, the corresponding bit is set in the clipping code. Direct3D maintains the clip status using D3DClipStatus8, which has ClipUnion and ClipIntersection members. ClipUnion is a bitwise "OR" of all vertex clip codes and ClipIntersection is a bitwise "AND" of all vertex clip codes. Initial values are zero for ClipUnion and 0xFFFFFFFF for ClipIntersection. When D3DRS_CLIPPING is set to FALSE, ClipUnion and ClipIntersection are set to zero. Direct3D updates the clip status during drawing calls. To compute clip status for a particular object, set ClipUnion and ClipIntersection to their initial value and continue drawing.

Clip status is not updated by DrawRectPatch and DrawTriPatch because there is no software emulation for them.

Requirements

  Header: Declared in D3d8types.h.

See Also

IDirect3DDevice8::GetClipStatus, IDirect3DDevice8::SetClipStatus