3D Problem Huge Z Increments

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Started by CoiN August 31, 2003 03:02 PM

10 comments, last by CoiN 20 years, 7 months ago

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August 31, 2003 03:02 PM

Lo all, I don''t know if the post title made any sense but I couldn''t think of anything else. My problems is basically this: I am creating a very basic 3D Wireframe app, just for learning purposes, and I have never done any 3D before. In my 3d space the x and y co-ords are fine but for some reason the z Co-Ord is hugely out of proportion with the x and y. For instance if we have a point on a polygon and z was 1 while all the other points where z = 0 (in local co-ords), that corner would be massively extended towards the screen. I have got around this by scaling z down, but when it comes to rotation around the x or y axes, it doesn''t work as x or y may equal something like 50 and that would make z eventually equal 50. Which means the rotated polygon or whatever comes flying at the screen and through the camera.

My brain is a bit dead at the moment and it is probably something stupid I am missing. Any ideas? Thanks in Advance.... Coin

JuNC

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August 31, 2003 03:20 PM

It''s tricky to know what you mean without any specifics on how you''re implementing this stuff, but superficially it sounds like you''re using a very narrow field of view, or you''re simply doing it right and are not used to how the perspective warp affects space.

You''ll probably need to post the equations and values you''re trying to use to get a specific answer. Screenshots of the problem would also help.

CoiN

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August 31, 2003 03:36 PM

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I''ll post some of the code below:

This is how I initialise my camera, it is very basic, no rotation has been implemented for the camera, it just looks straight down the Z-Axis.

// Initialise a Euler Cameravoid Init_EulerCam(EulerCam *cam, Point3Dh pos, Point3Dh dir, int vp_w, int vp_h){	// Init the camera position	cam->Position.x = pos.x;	cam->Position.y = pos.y;	cam->Position.z = pos.z;	cam->Position.w = 1;	// Init the camera direction	cam->Direction.x = dir.x;	cam->Direction.y = dir.y;	cam->Direction.z = dir.z;	cam->Direction.w = 1;	// Init the viewport dimensions	cam->Viewport_W = vp_w;	cam->Viewport_H = vp_h;	cam->Viewport_Cx = (vp_w - 1) / 2;		cam->Viewport_Cy = (vp_h - 1) / 2;	cam->Aspect_Ratio = (float) vp_w / (float) vp_h;	// Init the viewplane	cam->Viewplane_W = 2;	cam->Viewplane_H = 2 / cam->Aspect_Ratio;	// Calculate the View distance	cam->View_Dist = 0.5 * cam->Viewplane_W * tanf(0.765);}

This is where I transform the poly to perspective.
TVList[] is just the transformed vertex list.

// Transform Camera to Perspectivevoid TriPoly3D_Camera_to_Perspective(TriPoly3D *poly, EulerCam *cam){	int count;	// Transform the vertexes	for(count = 0; count < 3; count++)	{		poly->TVList[count].x = (cam->View_Dist * poly->TVList[count].x) / poly->TVList[count].z; 		poly->TVList[count].y = (cam->View_Dist * cam->Aspect_Ratio * poly->TVList[count].y) / poly->TVList[count].z;	}}

I am pretty certain the rotation code is okay.

Hope that is enough info.

Thanks....

Coin

Neoteric

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August 31, 2003 04:23 PM

Really obvious question, sounds like verticies are passing into negative Z space, are polygons being clipped against a near plane? Translate a few hundered into Z when rotating to check your coordinate system.

CoiN

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August 31, 2003 05:40 PM

Lo,

There is no clipping at all yet, but the polygons are definetly staying in front of the camera and not going behind.

I had that problem at first and spent days trying to figure out what was wrong.

Cheers for the reply,

Coin.

JohnBolton

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September 01, 2003 05:14 AM

I believe

    cam->View_Dist = 0.5 * cam->Viewplane_W *   tanf(0.765);

should be

    cam->View_Dist = 0.5 * cam->Viewplane_W /   tanf(0.765);

And I prefer "PI_OVER_4" instead of "0.765".

[edited by - JohnBolton on September 1, 2003 6:15:59 AM]

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CoiN

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September 01, 2003 12:54 PM

Thanks for the reply.

Changing that line of code only seems to make a very slight difference to the perspective.

I have an idea which will probably fix it but it will probably involve uneeded calculations.

Thanks for the help everyone, I''ll try my idea and see if it works.

Coin

CoiN

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September 01, 2003 01:54 PM

Lo again,

My idea didn''t work.

I''ll post some pictures of the problem so it can be seen.

The first picture is of a square where all vertices are set to z = 2, so the square is parallel to the view screen.

http://www.chizief.co.uk/square1.jpg

The second picture, three vertices on 1 side have been set to 1, and as you can see the square stretches greatly into the background. Now I would expect this to happen if Z were a much larger number (or smaller in this case) but with a change of only 1, the distance change should be minimal.

http://www.chizief.co.uk/square2.jpg

Now this isn''t a problem until I come to rotate an object on the X or Y axes. As you can imagine if X or Y are 10 when when I rotate the object it is extending huge amounts into the distance and towards the camera, so the object looks around 500 miles long and only very thin.

I''m wondering if it is anything to do with the field of view.

Thanks....

Coin

Neoteric

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September 01, 2003 02:34 PM

Still can''t see anything wrong in that case, are you rotating using matrices and can we see the code for it?

CoiN

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September 01, 2003 02:53 PM

Hi,

I'll post the matrix code, but I am sure that is fine as it rotates on the Z axis fine.

This is the function to multiply and Point (or a vector) by a 3x3 matrix, which is simply a float[3][3].

// Multiply a 3x3 Matrix by a Point3Dhvoid MMul_3x3_Point3Dh(Matrix3x3 *m, Point3Dh *p, Point3Dh *result){	int row_count, col_count;	float sum;	// Columns	for(col_count = 0; col_count < 3; col_count++)	{		// Reset sum		sum = 0;		// Rows		for(row_count = 0; row_count < 3; row_count++)		{			sum += (p->xyzw[row_count] * m->index[row_count][col_count]);		}		// Store the result		result->xyzw[col_count] = sum;	}}

And the 3 axis rotation matrices.

And I know I should be converting the degrees to radians just once.

	// Initialise the rotation matrix X axis	Init_Matrix3x3(&mat, 1, 0,  0,			     0, cosf((PI * angle) / 180), sinf((PI * angle) / 180),			     0,	-sinf((PI * angle) / 180), cosf((PI * angle) / 180));	// Initialise the rotation matrix Z axis	Init_Matrix3x3(&mat, cosf((PI * angle) / 180), sinf((PI * angle) / 180),  0,			     -sinf((PI * angle) / 180), cosf((PI * angle) / 180), 0,		             0,	0, 1);	// Initialise the rotation matrix Y axis	Init_Matrix3x3(&mat, cosf((PI * angle) / 180), 0, -sinf((PI * angle) / 180),		             0, 1, 0,			     sinf((PI * angle) / 180), 0, cosf((PI * angle) / 180));

These are just being used individually for now, I haven't multiplied them together or anything like that, so just take it as only one of these matrices is used.

Thanks for the reply...

Coin

[edited by - Coin on September 1, 2003 4:07:05 PM]

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