[Edited by - Mr Furious on October 8, 2008 6:23:44 PM]
Unexpected Texture Sampling
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In trying to mimic a 3 monitor setup I have tested rendering to texture and then applying that texture to 3 screen space quads. The scene consists of a skybox with a checkerboard texture on every face. For now, all 3 screen quads are rendering the exact same texture. It seems like my texture coordinates are not properly interpolated on the sides. Can someone explain this behavior?
[Edited by - Mr Furious on October 8, 2008 6:23:44 PM]
[Edited by - Mr Furious on October 8, 2008 6:23:44 PM]
That's perspective-incorrect interpolation of texture coordinates. In GL you can fix this with glHint(GL_PERSPECTIVE_CORRECTION_HINT, GL_NICEST)
Also perspective correct interpolation will only work if you are setting the z values of your vertices correctly.
Also perspective correct interpolation will only work if you are setting the z values of your vertices correctly.
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Ok, I've tried that and ended up with the same result. I'm rendering those 3 quads with an orthographic camera. Maybe it's not possible to be perspective correct when rendering in ortho.
I don't really understand why texturing behaves this way when rendering quads in ortho as opposed to rendering 3 world space quads with perspective projection. Does the projection matrix get used somehow in the process of sampling a texture?
I don't really understand why texturing behaves this way when rendering quads in ortho as opposed to rendering 3 world space quads with perspective projection. Does the projection matrix get used somehow in the process of sampling a texture?
The W component (the reciprocal of depth) is used in the perspective correct interpolation to reconstruct the sample position in homogenous texture space, so yes, the projection matrix plays a part in the calculation of the sampling position.
Whereas affine (non-corrected) sampling is effectively a linear interpolation in screen space, not in texture space - which is the original problem) - the w-divided coordinate is calculated as follows:
As you can see from the formula, you need to generate the per-vertex w value in order to achieve correct texture mapping. The projection matrix is usually set up to calculate it for you.
[Edited by - Nik02 on October 9, 2008 2:49:55 PM]
Whereas affine (non-corrected) sampling is effectively a linear interpolation in screen space, not in texture space - which is the original problem) - the w-divided coordinate is calculated as follows:
//let frac = 0 to 1, interpolation parameter between tc0 and tc1tc' = ((1-frac)*tc0.xy/tc0.z + frac*tc1.xy/tc1.z) //z divide/((1-frac)*1.0/tc0.z + frac*1.0/tc1.z) // reciprocal of z divide (1/z), AKA w divide;As you can see from the formula, you need to generate the per-vertex w value in order to achieve correct texture mapping. The projection matrix is usually set up to calculate it for you.
[Edited by - Nik02 on October 9, 2008 2:49:55 PM]
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