I've been experimenting with terrain rendering for my game, but it always turns out wrong. Any help?. I've seen nehes tutorials. But they use quads, which aren't good for terrain. Thanks.

Please move to opengl(I mean. Drawing in opengl)

Quads are just made up of two triangles.

Can you paste a screenshot so we can see what is wrong?

Dave

Well, it just doesnt draw anything, and when it does, it looks wacky.

And, Quads are harder for the videocard to do textures with.
Its easier to do two triangles.

I'm using .RAW files made with Gimp.


void LoadRawFile(char filename[], int nSize, BYTE *hm)
{

FILE *f = NULL;
f = fopen(filename, "rb");

if(f == NULL)
{
char tmperr[40];
sprintf(tmperr, "Error: Cannot load raw file '%s'.", filename);
l.LogMessage(tmperr);
return;
}

// Read the bytes from the file. 1 byte at a time
// and send them to the pointer to the byte-array.
fread(hm, 1, nSize, f);

if(ferror(f))
{
char tmperr[40];
sprintf(tmperr, "Error: Failed to read raw '%s'.", filename);
l.LogMessage(tmperr);
fclose(f);
return;
}

if(!hm)
{
char tmperr[40];
sprintf(tmperr, "Error: Heightmap '%s', is invalid.", filename);
l.LogMessage(tmperr);
fclose(f);
return;
}

char tmpstr[40];
sprintf(tmpstr, "Heightmap '%s', loaded at (0x%X).", filename, &hm);
l.LogMessage(tmpstr);

fclose(f);

return;
}

But how to draw? I know im not doing it right, cuase its not there.

Im a super beginner at opengl.

Quote:Original post by Arex
Try this tutorial :
http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/lesson.asp?lesson=34

Read post #1,

Quote:Original post by Jett
I've seen nehes tutorials. But they use quad

Quote:Original post by Jett
2 Triangles are easier than a quad for the videocard.

I need code for Triangles.

Thanks.

Quote:Original post by jett
I need code for Triangles.

Quads are triangles.

But I digress. I used triangle strips in my terrain engine way back in the day. The algorithm is something like this:

1     2     3     4     5*-----*-----*-----*-----*|\    |\    |\    |\    || \   | \   | \   | \   ||  \  |  \  |  \  |  \  ||   \ |   \ |   \ |   \ ||    \|    \|    \|    \|*-----*-----*-----*-----*6     7     8     9     10*-----*-----*-----*-----*|\    |\    |\    |\    || \   | \   | \   | \   ||  \  |  \  |  \  |  \  ||   \ |   \ |   \ |   \ ||    \|    \|    \|    \|*-----*-----*-----*-----*11    12    13    14    15

You draw this first strip from left to right (you can look up the syntax for triangle strips). But the index ordering is something like:
1, 2, 7, 1, 7, 6, 2, 3, 8, 2, 8, 7, etc

The next strip you draw from right to left (again you can look up the syntax). But the ordering is something like:
9, 10, 15, 9, 15, 14, 8, 9, 14, 8, 14, 13

I don't remember openGL winding or if that's nessarily the correct index ordering but hopefully you get the idea.

-me

in reply to post #7.

OK, I have an 512X512 heightmap, i try to draw it like,

GLBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);glVertex3f(x, heightmap[x + (y * 512)], y);glVertex3f(x+1, heightmap[x + (y * 512)], y);glVertex3f(x, heightmap[x + (y * 512)], y+1);glVertex3f(x+1, heightmap[x + (y * 512)], y+1);dont remember the restGLEnd();

i have

BYTE heightmap[512*512];

and,

you saw my loading code.

So, if someone could put what you said in code?

in reply to post #8

Triangles are eaiser for the video card to wrap textures onto.
But with triangles, not trianglestrips.
That would be great.