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[gnomgrol]

Hello there,

I am currently in charge of building an opengl-renderer for a little gamestudio at my university. 

Currently I am trying to implement alphapicking, which is causing me some problems. We are using openGL with GLKit. 

The game is mostly 2D, and therefor all objects are planes with textures mapped onto them. When I pick, I need to be able to determine if the picked pixel has an alphavalue < 0.1 to not have it picked then. I tried glReadPixels(...), but the returnvalues are pretty strange. The openGL selectionmode does not really help me either, since it does not apply alphachannels (does it?).

What is the basic way to do it?

 

Thanks!

[Ashaman73]

I tried glReadPixels(...), but the returnvalues are pretty strange

Can you describe what pretty strange means ?

I use glReadPixels to do picking. You should ensure, that you pick the right buffer (front/back) and this only after the rendering has been finished (e.g. pick from front buffer buffer has been swapped).

Edited by Ashaman73, 04 February 2013 - 04:48 AM.

[gnomgrol]

What you mentioned was exactly the problem, tfixed it! Thanks!