I have a scene with a bunch of shapes, drawn like this:
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glVertex3f(-0.7f, -0.5f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.7f, -0.5f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.4f, 0.5f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-0.4f, 0.5f, 0.0f);
glEnd();
How do I make all of the shapes half as small, without individually going through and changing each coordinate?
The question is a little bit ambiguous. You asked to make the quads be half their original size, but you didn't stipulate where they should be once their size is changed. The standard way would be to apply a scaling factor:
glPushMatrix();
glScaled(.5,.5,.5);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glVertex3f(-0.7f, -0.5f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.7f, -0.5f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.4f, 0.5f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-0.4f, 0.5f, 0.0f);
glEnd();
...
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
...
glEnd();
glPopMatrix();
This will scale everything after the glScale call until the glPopMatrix(). Consequently, the quads will be half the size, but will also be half the distance from the origin (not a problem here where it's centered at the origin). If you want to apply the scaling factor to the quads, but not to their location, you'd probably need something like this:
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(xx,yy,zz);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glVertex3d( ww*ss, hh*ss,0);
glVertex3d(-ww*ss, hh*ss,0);
glVertex3d(-ww*ss,-hh*ss,0);
glVertex3d( ww*ss,-hh*ss,0);
glEnd();
glPopMatrix();
Then you would just set ss to your desired value and use xx,yy,zz to place the quad where you want it. Of course it's a bit silly to do things just this way, at very least, you should multiply the values once each and remember them, but you get the idea.
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I am Trying to Render 3 textures,
-Background
-Black/White Foreground Mask
-Foreground
I have used this OpenGL - mask with multiple textures
because it acurately descirbes my problem. But i can not get it to work. I only get the Last rendererd Texture, in this case the Foreground. I have called glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_ALPHA); to get Alpha rendering as sugested in the Answer.
Can anyone spot errors from my side?
My code is as follows:
double stretch = ((double)m_videoResY * (double)m_depthResX) / ((double)m_videoResX * (double)m_depthResY);
glEnable(GL_BLEND);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glPushMatrix();
glLoadIdentity();
glOrtho(+0.5, -0.5, +0.5, -0.5, 0.001f, 1.0);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glPushMatrix();
glLoadIdentity();
glTranslatef(0.0f, 0.0f, -0.5f);
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glClearColor(0, 0, 0, 0);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glBlendFunc(GL_ONE, GL_ZERO);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, m_backgroundTexture);//Draw BGTexture
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_NEAREST);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(-0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f);
glEnd();
glBlendFuncSeparate(GL_ZERO, GL_ONE, GL_SRC_COLOR, GL_ZERO);
//mask with userID
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, m_userIDTexture);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f * stretch);
glVertex3f(-0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f * stretch);
glVertex3f(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f);
glEnd();
//blend with Video of User
glBlendFunc(GL_DST_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_DST_ALPHA);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, m_videoTexture);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_NEAREST);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(-0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f);
glEnd();
I suppose your mistakes are:
When you drawing your background with glBlendFunc(GL_ONE, GL_ZERO);
As result you normaly draw it in framebuffer, but providing no needed blending operation, more effective on this pass is don't use blending at all. So, more effective is glDisable(GL_BLEND), but your pass work here like you expect.
At second pass you drawing with glBlendFuncSeparate(GL_ZERO, GL_ONE, GL_SRC_COLOR, GL_ZERO); I don't know why you using so sofisticated function here and separatively blend colors and alpha values.
So, looking on third pass, I suppose you want to modify your background alpha value by your foreground black/white color mask. If It's true, you must use glBlendFuncSeparate(GL_ZERO, GL_ONE, GL_ZERO, GL_SRC_COLOR); - Yep, little mistake.
And at third pass when you drawing foreground you have glBlendFunc(GL_DST_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_DST_ALPHA), what means you wanna draw those regions, where your black/white mask was white and blending with attenuation for more darker mask regions.
If you have any questions about glBlendFunc, I can help you.
So I'm pretty new to openGL programming and am just going over the basics for now. I know I should be using VBOs and stuff but wanted to get a little foundation first. I wont present you with all the code just the stuff that draws and sets the scene.
Heres a little code for setting up my camera:
glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.5f);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
gluPerspective(70, width / height, 1, 1000);
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
// Move the camera back to view the scene
glTranslatef(0.0f, 0.0f, -5.0f);
I tried to create it around the origin like so (also I never draw the bottom face) :
void drawtetrahedron(GLfloat angle)
{
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
glRotatef(angle, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);
glColor3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f); //FRONT
glVertex3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f);
glColor3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); //RIGHT
glVertex3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.0f, -1.0f, -1.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f);
glColor3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f); //LEFT
glVertex3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(0.0f, -1.0f, -1.0f);
glEnd();
}
When my window first comes up the red triangle looks fine, but as I rotate it the shape looks a little distorted. If I rotate all the way around (where I cant see the red face at all) it looks normal... What am I missing here?
Heres where it starts to look weird
Also any pointers on openGL stuff I'm doing incorrectly (or in general) are greatly appreciated! :D
I don't know if this is what you consider a wierd looking shape, but your shape doesn't seem to be a regular Tetrahedron:
The 3 Corners of the base don't have the same distance to the top corner (the two front corners have a distance of sqrt(6) to the top corner, while the back corner has a distance of sqrt(5)).
the distance on the base is off too: the front corners have a distance of sqrt(2) while the distance between any front corner and the back corner is sqrt(3).
An example for a regular tetrahedron would be:
(Please note that these coordinates don't have a base parallel to the xz plane)
(1,1,1)(1,-1,-1)(-1,1,-1)(-1,-1,1)
Your code itself looks to be ok. (Except for the translating the projection matrix) I, myself prefer to create code blocks after push/popmatrix and glbegin/end (these things { ... }), but that's just to keep my code easy to read.
Also, as a general rule of thumb, in opengl you don't move the camera: you move everything else. (That's why translating negative z moves objects away from you, translating positive x makes them move right and so on...)
Aha! It seems my problem was that my zNear value given to gluPerspective had to be greater than 0, and I had to enable the depth buffer to get it working. Ive updated the code below to be working.
I've tried to do this a lot, and always thought I was defining my quad vertices in the wrong order, but now, I know its something else.
I've tried enabling Culling, changing frontFace to clockwise, disabling Blending, adding normals, but I always get a cube that looks like this;
Hopefully, you won't even have to look at my code to know what the problem is, as it wasn't too hard to get it like this.
If you don't immediately know what the problem is, here's the code used to set up and draw the cube.
// FIXED CODE.
// reshape, called on init, and window resize
void reshape(int w, int h) {
scrw=w;
scrh=h;
glClearColor(0.8,0.8,0.8,1.0);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
gluPerspective(cfov,(float) scrw/ (float) scrh,1,1000); // this is also a part of the fix.
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
glEnable(GL_BLEND);
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST); // this is a part of the fix
glEnable(GL_CULL_FACE);
glCullFace(GL_FRONT);
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA,GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
glViewport(0,0,scrw,scrh);
}
// drawQuadCube(), called every frame.
void drawQuadCube() {
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(0.5,0.5,0.5);
glRotated(xangle,0,1,0);
glRotated(yangle,1,0,0);
glRotated(zangle,0,0,1);
glTranslated(-0.5,-0.5,-0.5);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
// bottom
glColor4ub(30,30,255,255);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
// top
glColor4ub(40,40,255,255);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
// left
glColor4ub(60,60,255,255);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
// right
glColor4ub(60,60,200,255);
glVertex3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
// near
glColor4ub(70,70,100,255);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
// far
glColor4ub(20,20,90,255);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glNormal3f(0,0,0);
glNormal3f(0,0,1);
glNormal3f(0,1,0);
glNormal3f(1,0,0);
glNormal3f(1,0,1);
glNormal3f(1,1,0);
glNormal3f(1,1,1);
glNormal3f(0,1,1);
glEnd();
glPopMatrix();
}
// if that isn't enough, this is the function used to set up the view.
void setView(void) {
glLoadIdentity();
gluLookAt(0.5,0.5,-5,0.5,0.5,0.5,0,1,0);
}
Your winding mode is incorrect.
glFrontFace defaults to GL_CCW, but your "front-facing quad", in this example the "near" one, is wound clockwise (from the frame of reference of your camera position; note that it's at negative Z, and looking along positive Z). glCullFace defaults to GL_BACK, so it's getting culled. Set it correctly with:
glFrontFace(GL_CW);
See also http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/glFrontFace.xml
Once you've got that setup, then you'll want to enable depth-buffering, so your quads overpaint correctly without relying on paint ordering. See: http://www.opengl.org/archives/resources/faq/technical/depthbuffer.htm
Try:
glCullFace(GL_FRONT);
See http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/glCullFace.xml
or:
glEnable(GL_CULL_FACE);
See http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/glEnable.xml
You didn't specify what windowing mechanism you were using but incase you are using glut, don't forget to set the GLUT_DEPTH flag while creating the window. Thats a simple common error frequently overlooked.
I want to be able to render something into a texture, on OpenGL, so I can further use it whenever I want, without rendering everything over again. This website here gave me the guidelines to do it, without using the FrameBuffer. I don't want to do it with the FrameBuffer Object due to compatibility issues, since this old machine is not supporting it. I have done some code, which creates my texture, renders my scene, and I then create a Quad to render the texture on it. The only problem is that the texture is being rendered like an "Alpha Mask", it means, looks like it's only taking into account the Alpha Value, maintaining my rectangle always with the same color, but just changing the transparency on pixels. Here is some code I've done so far:
void CreateTexture ()
{
xSize = 512;
ySize = 512; //size of texture
//new array
char* colorBits = new char[ xSize * ySize * 3 ];
//texture creation..
glGenTextures(1,&texture);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,texture);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D,0 ,3 , xSize,
ySize, 0 , GL_RGB,
GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, colorBits);
//you can set other texture parameters if you want
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
//clean up
delete[] colorBits;
}
Then:
int viewport[4];
glGetIntegerv(GL_VIEWPORT,(int*)viewport);
glViewport(0,0,xSize,ySize);
DrawScene(hDC);
//save data to texture using glCopyTexImage2D
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,texture);
glCopyTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA,
0,0, xSize, ySize, 0);
glClearColor(.0f, 0.5f, 0.5f, 1.0f); // Set The Clear Color To Medium Blue
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glViewport(viewport[0],viewport[1],viewport[2],viewport[3]);
// glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,texture);
And Finally:
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); // Enable 2D Texture Mapping
glBlendFunc(GL_DST_COLOR,GL_ONE); // Set Blending Mode
glEnable(GL_BLEND);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,texture);
glRotatef(theta, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.01f);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
//Front Face
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-0.5, -0.5f, 0.5f);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f( 0.5f, -0.5f, 0.5f);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f( 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(-0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f);
glEnd();
SwapBuffers(hDC);
The DrawScene() function simply renders a rectangle with a triangle on top of it, with each vertice having different colors.. nothing special.
glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT );//| GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glPushMatrix();
// glRotatef(theta, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glColor3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f);
glColor3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f( 1.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f);
glColor3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glColor3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glEnd();
glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);
glColor3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex2f(0.0f, 1.0f);
glColor3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex2f(0.87f, -0.5f);
glColor3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex2f(-0.87f, -0.5f);
glEnd();
glPopMatrix();
I've found something on nVidia website which looks useful, for someone who cannot also do offscreen rendering with FBO:
http://developer.download.nvidia.com/SDK/9.5/Samples/samples.html
This website contains one project called "Simple P-Buffer", which basically contains an implementation of a P-buffer. The idea of the sample is that you make context switching to the pBuffer, while you want to draw pixels on offscreen mode, let's say. After drawing your scene with the normal rendering functions, we use glReadPixels to read the data from the pBuffer into an array of unsigned bytes (GLubyte). After that, we do context-switching once again, setting it back to the screen context, so that you can use glReadPixels to read the content from our array.
The method before FBOs were available was to use an alternate render buffer (see glDrawBuffer(GL_AUX0), then copy pixels from that buffer (see glReadBuffer) to the texture (see glCopyTexImage2D. Rendering directly into a texture requires FBOs.
What I want to do is to draw a square where each vertex is supposed to have a different color.
This should lead into a nice gradient within the square.
Here's the code I'm using:
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glColor3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex2f(((float)(winWidth-redLineWidth))/2.f,((float)(winHeight-redLineWidth))/2.f);
glColor3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex2f(((float)(winWidth+redLineWidth))/2.f,((float)(winHeight-redLineWidth))/2.f);
glColor3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex2f(((float)(winWidth+redLineWidth))/2.f,((float)(winHeight+redLineWidth))/2.f);
glColor3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex2f(((float)(winWidth-redLineWidth))/2.f,((float)(winHeight+redLineWidth))/2.f);
glEnd();
Please ignore the variables used.
I get a rectangle painted, but it has a solid color.
Where's the error here?
I'm using GLUT on Mac OS X.
It seems unlikely that you've changed this, but you might try to add a glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH) call before your drawing code. The default behavior should do as you expected though, so the problem is likely elsewhere.