How do I draw lines using XNA?

Question

I\'ve read a bunch of tutorials involving XNA (and it\'s various versions) and I still am a little confused on drawing primitives. Everything seems to be really convoluted.

Answer 1

The simplest best way, I think, is to get the image of just a white pixel then stretch that pixel in a rectangle to look like a line

I made a Line class,

class Line
{
    Texture pixel = ((set this to a texture of a white pixel with no border));
    Vector2 p1, p2; //this will be the position in the center of the line
    int length, thickness; //length and thickness of the line, or width and height of rectangle
    Rectangle rect; //where the line will be drawn
    float rotation; // rotation of the line, with axis at the center of the line
    Color color;


    //p1 and p2 are the two end points of the line
    public Line(Vector2 p1, Vector2 p2, int thickness, Color color)
    {
        this.p1 = p1;
        this.p2 = p2;
        this.thickness = thickness;
        this.color = color;
    }

    public void Update(GameTime gameTime)
    {
        length = (int)Vector2.Distance(p1, p2); //gets distance between the points
        rotation = getRotation(p1.X, p1.Y, p2.X, p2.Y); //gets angle between points(method on bottom)
        rect = new Rectangle((int)p1.X, (int)p1.Y, length, thickness)

        //To change the line just change the positions of p1 and p2
    }

    public void Draw(SpriteBatch spriteBatch, GameTime gameTime)
    {
        spriteBatch.Draw(pixel, rect, null, color, rotation, new Vector2.Zero, SpriteEffects.None, 0.0f);
    }

    //this returns the angle between two points in radians 
    private float getRotation(float x, float y, float x2, float y2)
    {
        float adj = x - x2;
        float opp = y - y2;
        float tan = opp / adj;
        float res = MathHelper.ToDegrees((float)Math.Atan2(opp, adj));
        res = (res - 180) % 360;
        if (res < 0) { res += 360; }
        res = MathHelper.ToRadians(res);
        return res;
    }

Hope this helps