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[Lotes]

Hi, I work with XNA and I want to render the depth information of my scene into a texture. But all I get is my scene (some cubes) completly colored in white. So the depth information I determined is greater or equal 1.0 I guess. How is it done right? I googled a lot, but I can't find my mistake :'-(... Do I have to make any settings in XNA before rendering?

Here are the HLSL shaders I use:

float4x4 xView;
float4x4 xProjection;
float4x4 xWorld;

struct VertexToPixel
{
	float4 Position	: POSITION;  
	float4 Color  : COLOR0;
};

struct PixelToFrame
{
	float4 Color : COLOR0;
};

VertexToPixel PositionsVS( float4 inPos : POSITION)
{
	float4x4 preViewProjection = mul (xView, xProjection);
	float4x4 preWorldViewProjection = mul (xWorld, preViewProjection);
	VertexToPixel Output = (VertexToPixel)0;
	Output.Position = mul(inPos, preWorldViewProjection);
	Output.Color.a = 1;
	Output.Color.rgb = Output.Position.z/Output.Position.w;
	return Output;
}

PixelToFrame PositionsPS(VertexToPixel PSIn)
{
	PixelToFrame Output = (PixelToFrame)0;
	Output.Color = PSIn.Color;
	return Output;
}

technique Positions
{
	pass Pass0
	{  
	  VertexShader = compile vs_3_0 PositionsVS();
	  PixelShader  = compile ps_3_0 PositionsPS();
	}
}

[joeblack]

hi,
its ok (because of depth precision) try to output "view" z e.g. :

float4x4 preWorldView= mul (xWorld, xView);

Output.Position = mul(inPos, preWorldView);
Output.Color.rgb = Output.Position.z/zFar; (zFar is far clip plane in projection matrix)

and then

Output.Position = mul(Output.Position,xProjection);

this way you will get linearDepth rendered and you should see it better

[Lotes]

Thanks. My far clip plane has a distance of 200.0f. Is that the value for zFar?
When I tried out your code my cubes became entirely black :-/.

Edited by Lotes, 08 November 2012 - 08:28 AM.

[joeblack]

yes, you shall use 200 as far plane,
could you please post your new code ?

[Lotes]

Here is it...

VertexToPixel PositionsVS( float4 inPos : POSITION)
{
    VertexToPixel Output = (VertexToPixel)0;

    float4x4 preWorldView= mul (xWorld, xView);
    Output.Position = mul(inPos, preWorldView);
    Output.Color = 1;
    Output.Color.rgb = Output.Position.z/200;
    Output.Position = mul(Output.Position,xProjection);
    return Output;
}
PixelToFrame PositionsPS(VertexToPixel PSIn)
{
    PixelToFrame Output = (PixelToFrame)0;
    Output.Color = PSIn.Color;
    return Output;
}

Edited by Lotes, 08 November 2012 - 08:44 AM.

[joeblack]

it looks good,
your cubes are drawn but black or not drawn at all ?
try also add 200.0 instead of 200
(in c++ it will ruin your calculation, not shure about hlsl)

[Lotes]

they are drawn (black cubes on blue background).
changing 200 to 200.0 did not help. i think in hlsl it does not matter.

[joeblack]

maybe you values are very close to near plane, try to divide by smaller number (20),
when they are still black try 2. What are positions of your cubes ? and dimensions ?

[Lotes]

It works with this code. But I find it very ugly to use a magic number like 25 as a factor in this case. How can I calculate this factor from my matrices? :-/

VertexToPixel PositionsVS( float4 inPos : POSITION, float3 inNormal: NORMAL, float4 inColor: COLOR)
{
    VertexToPixel Output = (VertexToPixel)0;
    float4x4 preViewProjection = mul (xView, xProjection);
    float4x4 preWorldViewProjection = mul (xWorld, preViewProjection);
    Output.Position = mul(inPos, preWorldViewProjection);
    Output.Color = 1;
    Output.Color.rgb = Output.Position.z;
    return Output;
}
PixelToFrame PositionsPS(VertexToPixel PSIn)
{
    PixelToFrame Output = (PixelToFrame)0;
    Output.Color = PSIn.Color/25;
    return Output;
}

My cubes have a dimension of 0.9x0.9x0.9 at positions (0,0,-10), (0,0,-9) ... (0,0,10).
My camera is at (0,10,-20) looking at (0,0,0).