Ok, I''ve went through the first few NeHe Tutorials, and I know how to draw Triangles and Quads on the screen and color them. Now, to solidify my knowledge to this point, I want to make a 2D Breakout Clone w/ OpenGL. I have a few questions right off the bat, and I''m hoping a few of you can help me out. 1) Is there anything special I should set in OpenGL if I''m using it to draw 2D and not 3D? Anything to give me the best perspective or view? 2) For Collision detection, is there a way to convert to and from OpenGL Coords and Screen Coords? 3) Any other hints on how to do 2D in OpenGL? Anything I need to know? Any words of Wisdom? thanks if you can help me out.

quote:Original post by Radagar
1) Is there anything special I should set in OpenGL if I''m using it to draw 2D and not 3D? Anything to give me the best perspective or view?

glOrtho gives you an orthographic projection which is best for 2d graphics (ie, no perspective!)

quote:2) For Collision detection, is there a way to convert to and from OpenGL Coords and Screen Coords?

It depends how you setup your view (via glOrtho or not). A really simple way to do things is to set up the screen with one gl unit to one pixel. Or you can use gluUnproject to get world coords from screen coords. Or you can do the math yourself manually.

But you don''t want to convert for collision detection. Do all your game logic / collision etc. in your own world coords, then only convert when drawing to screen. Separate your game logic and information from your actual graphical output.

OrangyTang, thanks for the reply.

I''ll look into using GlOrtho, and doing the 1 unit per pixel thing sounds like a great way to do it to me.

Thanks dischord333, I''ll look through that.