Hey,

Im stuck on a couple of aspects of textures/sprites in opengl.

1) I need to know how to set rotation of individual textures

2) I need to stop textures from disappearing before they leave the screen completely ( it happens when the x,y coords are no longer visible)

I am rendering with this method:

glVertexPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, 0, vertexBuffer);
glDrawArrays(GL_POINTS, 0, ObjCountPerm);

The vertexBuffer[0] and vertexBuffer[1] stores the x y coords

it is like the painting example that comes with the sdk

Let me know if you need any more information, thanks for any help and direction.

Drawing textured GL_QUADS (or pairs of GL_TRIANGLES? I can't remember if GL_QUADS exists in OpenGL ES or not) instead of GL_POINTS will alleviate your disappearing-at-edge-of-screen problem, and allow you to easily rotate your objects.

ThemsAllTook Wrote:I can't remember if GL_QUADS exists in OpenGL ES or not)

It doesn't.

For sprites, I just use a textured quad, drawn as a triangle strip. Make vertexBuffer store 8 values, (4 x/y pairs) and use:

Thanks, this sounds perfect.. a couple of questions though

say my current x y coords are 100, 150

what would my new 8 coords have to be for this new method?
could i write a function to convert my current positions to the new ones?

also how would i then rotate an object?

thanks again i really appreciate the help

You will need to know about transformations, and how to use them in OpenGL.

http://glprogramming.com/red/chapter03.html

You might be able to find a simpler tutorial elsewhere, but that is a good general introduction at least.

jjslay Wrote:Thanks, this sounds perfect.. a couple of questions though

say my current x y coords are 100, 150

what would my new 8 coords have to be for this new method?

You would need to know the size of your sprite, which is (size.x, size.y). Your 8 values are:

Quote:also how would i then rotate an object?

Skorche's link has a lot of good info, but in a nutshell:


The Redbook or http://nehe.gamedev.net will have more in depth explanations of everything.

Thanks Justin, ill give it a go tomorrow... that was just what i needed to know

jjslay Wrote:Thanks, this sounds perfect.. a couple of questions though

say my current x y coords are 100, 150

what would my new 8 coords have to be for this new method?

There are different approaches. In addition to JustinFic's suggestion, another way would be to do something like:

Hey,

Ive got for the moment one of my sprites rendering in the middle of the screen using the sprite example which looks a lot like your code.

How do i move the spirte around (x,y coords)

the coords being used to render are these


if i wanted to move the sprite downwards or to another position how would i?

i am good with game mechanics and i had a pretty decent game going with the old 2d sprite method but as i said i was using two x,y coords that i just defined and manipulated as i wished. I want to use this new type of rendering and i need some help getting these methods applied to the new render technique...

before i was using numbers like 300 and 100 not 1.0f etc

Please let me know how i can still use simple coords and have them converted just before rendering etc

To move 100 across and 150 up, the trick is:


Instead of modifying genericSpriteVerts yourself, you tell OpenGL to transform them with the glTranslatef:

glTranslatef(x, y, z);

That's why the vertex coordinates are cleverly setup to be -0.5, 0.5, etc. The distance between -0.5 and 0.5 is 1.0, and centered around zero. That way all you do is translate it to where you want it, and scale it to the size you want, without having to do any vertex calcs yourself.

ah that makes sense, thanks.

Does this still work when you have 100 of the same object etc?

If so do you render each object in a loop asigning different xpos ypos rotation and scale ?

jjslay Wrote:Does this still work when you have 100 of the same object etc?

If so do you render each object in a loop asigning different xpos ypos rotation and scale ?

Yes, that is the way to do it.

The trick there is the glPushMatrix() before doing the transform for each object, and then glPopMatrix() after you've drawn the object. The push saves the current matrix so you can mess it up, and then the pop goes back to the matrix before you messed it up for each object.

So:

thats awesome, perfect for what i need it for. Thanks again

one thing i just noticed was that transform doesnt relate to a pixel position but more of a -1 to 1 of the render window?
is there any way to use pixel values or will i have to convert pixel positions to the scale?

You can do it either way. It all depends on how you have your projection set up. If you want to do it on a pixel basis, use:

glOrthof(0, viewBoundsWidth, 0, viewBoundsHeight, -1, 1);

Thanks, i managed to get it to translate the pixel positions perfectly. The rotation of objects seems to be relative to the middle of the screen, is there a way i can rotate them from the center of themselves, i tried moving them to the middle rotating then moving to the position and it didnt seem to work.