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[anstmich]

Hi all,

I am trying to add multisampling in order to smooth out lines/polygons. From what I have read, using:

SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_MULTISAMPLEBUFFERS, 1);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_MULTISAMPLESAMPLES, 4);

in between SDL_Init and SDL_SetVideoMode and enabling line hinting/smoothing should be enough to produce some nice antialiasing. Unfortunately, when the two lines above are added, my program segfaults on the first call to glGenBuffers(). I have glew set up to load the extensions and everything works fine without these two lines.

The two relevant methods:

init():

int init(int width, int height, bool fullscreen)
{
	
	if(SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) != 0) {
		printf("Unable to initialize SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
		return 1;
	}
	

	SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_MULTISAMPLEBUFFERS, 1);
	SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_MULTISAMPLESAMPLES, 4);
	
	//SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_DOUBLEBUFFER, 1);
	screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(width, height, 32, fullscreen? SDL_OPENGL | SDL_FULLSCREEN : SDL_OPENGL);
	
	// set up 2D drawing
	glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
	glClearColor(MAIN_BG_COLOR, MAIN_BG_COLOR, MAIN_BG_COLOR, 1.0f);
	
	glViewport(0, 0, width, height);
	glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
	glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
	glLoadIdentity();
	
	glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
	glLoadIdentity();
	glOrtho(0.0f, width, height, 0.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f);
	
	glEnable(GL_MULTISAMPLE);
	glHint(GL_LINE_SMOOTH_HINT, GL_NICEST );
	glHint(GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH_HINT, GL_NICEST );
	glEnable(GL_LINE_SMOOTH);
	glEnable(GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH);
	
	glEnable(GL_BLEND);										// Enable Blending
	glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
	
	GLenum err = glewInit();
	
	WinAttributes::WIN_WIDTH  = width;
	WinAttributes::WIN_HEIGHT = height; 
	WinAttributes::V_PIX      = 1.0f/double(height)*2;
	WinAttributes::H_PIX      = 1.0f/double(width)*2;
	
	return err;
	
}

and
The object initialization:

void Button::addToScene()
{

	// store the vertex data in memory
	glGenBuffers(1, getVertexBuffer());
	glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, *getVertexBuffer());
	glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, getNumVertices()*sizeof(GLfloat)*3, getVertexData().get(), GL_STREAM_DRAW);
	
	// store the color data in memory
	glGenBuffers(1, getColorBuffer());
	glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, *getColorBuffer());
	glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, getNumVertices()*sizeof(GLfloat)*4, getColorData().get(), GL_STREAM_DRAW);
	
}

getVertexData().get() returns

returns a GLfloat array that contains 360 vertices that constitute a button shape (two separated hemispheres).

I have tried searching for other cases of this occuring, however I haven't found anything relevant. Also, excluding the calls to SDL_GL_SetAttribute() eliminates the error, however line and polygon smoothing appear to have no effect (the lines are all jagged).

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!
Andy