Textured Primitives in XNA with a first person camera

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Published on 2010-04-12T19:29:40Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 19:33 UTC
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So I have a XNA application set up. The camera is in first person mode, and the user can move around using the keyboard and reposition the camera target with the mouse. I have been able to load 3D models fine, and they appear on screen no problem. Whenever I try to draw any primitive (textured or not), it does not show up anywhere on the screen, no matter how I position the camera.

In Initialize(), I have:

        quad = new Quad(Vector3.Zero, Vector3.UnitZ, Vector3.Up, 2, 2);

        quadVertexDecl = new VertexDeclaration(this.GraphicsDevice, VertexPositionNormalTexture.VertexElements);

In LoadContent(), I have:

        quadTexture = Content.Load<Texture2D>(@"Textures\brickWall");

        quadEffect = new BasicEffect(this.GraphicsDevice, null);
        quadEffect.AmbientLightColor = new Vector3(0.8f, 0.8f, 0.8f);
        quadEffect.LightingEnabled = true;
        quadEffect.World = Matrix.Identity;
        quadEffect.View = Matrix.CreateLookAt(cameraPosition, cameraTarget, Vector3.Up);
        quadEffect.Projection = this.Projection;
        quadEffect.TextureEnabled = true;
        quadEffect.Texture = quadTexture;

And in Draw() I have:

        this.GraphicsDevice.VertexDeclaration = quadVertexDecl;
        quadEffect.Begin();

        foreach (EffectPass pass in quadEffect.CurrentTechnique.Passes)
        {
            pass.Begin();
            GraphicsDevice.DrawUserIndexedPrimitives<VertexPositionNormalTexture>(
                     PrimitiveType.TriangleList,
                     quad.Vertices, 0, 4,
                     quad.Indexes, 0, 2);

            pass.End();
        }

        quadEffect.End();

I think I'm doing something wrong in the quadEffect properties, but I'm not quite sure what.

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