Render arbitrary polygon with XNA

Question

Looking for a simple way to render a list of arbitrary vertices (on a 2d plane) ... I'm guessing that I'll have to do some sort of tessellation, and will have to deal with concave/convex polygons. Not looking for a crazy visualization here ... just want to render a flat shape.

Surely others have encountered this need before? any tips would be appreciated :-)

Answer 1

You're actually after triangulation.

Try Nick Gravelyn's Triangulator library. Last time I used it there was a bug in that some polygons would triangulate inside-out. But if you poke around the bug tracker I think there's a fix there (perhaps this one).