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[toglia3d]

Hello!

So, I'm doing a tree like mesh generator using Directx 9 with vertex and index buffer objects and I'm getting terrible z buffer testing with it. I'm not even sure what this is related too, maybe someone can point out where to start tweaking?




I leave some code that might be relevant to the viewer:

[source lang="cpp"]D3DDISPLAYMODE d3ddm;g_pD3D->GetAdapterDisplayMode( D3DADAPTER_DEFAULT, &d3ddm );g_d3dpp.Windowed = TRUE;g_d3dpp.SwapEffect = D3DSWAPEFFECT_DISCARD;g_d3dpp.MultiSampleType = D3DMULTISAMPLE_8_SAMPLES;g_d3dpp.BackBufferFormat = d3ddm.Format;g_d3dpp.EnableAutoDepthStencil = TRUE;g_d3dpp.AutoDepthStencilFormat = D3DFMT_D24S8;g_d3dpp.PresentationInterval = D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_IMMEDIATE;[/source]


AutoDepthStencilFormat seems to be very relevant but i cant go higher than D24 or my app crashes in stuff like:
[source lang="cpp"]d3dDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_ZENABLE,true);[/source]

I have these two guys enabled:
[source lang="cpp"]d3dDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_ZENABLE,true);d3dDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_ZWRITEENABLE,true);[/source]
I have also tried tweeking the near and far planes of my frustrum in:
[source lang="cpp"]D3DXMatrixPerspectiveFovRH[/source]
But I don't getter better results. Don't know where else to tweak.

Thanks for your help.

Edited by toglia3d, 09 December 2012 - 08:49 AM.

[Hodgman]

What near/far plane values are you currently using?

[toglia3d]

Right now the near plane is in 0.0001f and far is in 200.0f, but I've tried lowering the far plane to 30, lower than that I don't see the mesh. Lol

[toglia3d]

Oh I forgot! I'm using shaders. Would have to try with the fixed pipeline to see if it gets better.

[Kaptein]

0.0001 is a very very small near plane value!
you have lost nearly all precision at z = 40.0 with 24bits

try znear = 0.1?

you probably want to read this:
http://www.sjbaker.org/steve/omniv/love_your_z_buffer.html
there's also a nifty calculator there!

Edited by Kaptein, 09 December 2012 - 08:52 AM.

[toglia3d]

NOOOOOO! I can't believe this. That solved it. I was so focused on the far plane for some reason I totally forgot about the near plane. Now I know... Thanks you! Started looking way better.