Ortho + Aspect Ratios

[jSTIN]

How can I get an ortho view with the correct aspect ratio of my window? I need to be able to display an object in perspective and orthographic views. I tried variations of this:


double aspect = width / height; // from window dimensions
...
glOrtho(-2.5 / aspect, 2.5 / aspect, -2.5, 2.5, 0, 100);


I tried varying what got divided or multiplied by the aspect ratio, but nothing works correctly. I'm thinking glOrtho isn't the way to go.

[OneSadCookie]

http://onesadcookie.com/svn/repos/Astro/Source/main.cpp

search for "aspect"

it's not the prettiest code ever, but it works...

[jSTIN]

Hey thanks.

I actually got it working with something similar I was trying. I just had the operations reversed. Your code gave me inspiration.