Objects and Cameras in a 3D world, OpenGL

Christian Frauenstein · 2011-09-12T08:57:04

Hi I'm working with C++. I think I'm slowly but surely understanding the the modelview matrix and how changing it, changes what you see. I've read a lot about guys talking about there is no camera and all that jazz, It starting to make sence, but its stil a trip. I've read about and looked at the glLookat function, some guy gave the source code for it somewhere, and I understand what happens there. The parameters are all in terms of the Object frame. I'm planning on using it, so bare with me. Now, I'm imagining a scene, a 3d world with objects(say cubes) and a camera, I realize that the modelview matrix needs to be set by the glLookat function for each object in the world, depending on where the object is in relation to the camera. Each object is designed in its own frame and has its origin at the middle of the object. So we have the object frames, which are the floating cubes, we have the scene frame(which openGL knows nothing of?), which is the frame that says where all the objects and the camera is, then we have the camera frame. If I'm on the right track my question should be: How do I use the info(x,y,z co-ordinates, rotations ,lookat vector) of the objects and the camera in the scene frame, to compute the parameters I need to pass to the glLookat function for each object just before you draw it? Please point me in the right vector direction. :P

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming OpenGL

Started by rotti September 06, 2011 07:58 PM

9 comments, last by rotti 12 years, 7 months ago

rotti

100

Author

September 12, 2011 08:57 AM

Thanks guys

Please take a look at what I made over the weekend:

I'm stil using gluLookAt, but I'm doing quite a lot of trig, evertime the mouse moves, is this very expensive? this very basic app, doesn't seem to have any problems with it at the moment.

http://www.userotti.com/opengl/planets.zip

I'm using the "glut32.dll"

so I think its windows only...

Objects and Cameras in a 3D world, OpenGL

This topic is closed to new replies.

Popular Topics

Recommended Tutorials

Objects and Cameras in a 3D world, OpenGL

This topic is closed to new replies.

Popular Topics

Recommended Tutorials

Reticulating splines