Hi there, So, i'm using OpenGL ES 1.1 (iPhone). My game is 2d so there was no problem untill i need to add some 3d stuff. I need to draw a wall going far away from viewer, it's simple rectangle rotated in 3d. But... Since, my game was 2D before day X, i've initializing my view like this: glViewport(0,0,width, height); glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); glLoadIdentity(); glOrtho(0,width, height,0, -1.0f, 1.0f); glRotate(90.0f, 0,0,1.0f); // since i'm using landscape view in iPhone glTranslate(0.0f, -width, 0.0f); glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); ... So, when i'm drawing textures (sprites), i've just call my draw function with screen coordinates, like this: draw(10,10,100,100); This all works perfect, but day X is here. I need to draw couple of rectangles in 3D, and i'm stuck. I know, that my question is too newbe, but how do i setup my view do enable 3d drawing mode? Just adding z coordinate to my rectangle failed. The rectangle is still in 2D. In my situation: float verts[12] = { 0,0,0, 100,0,5, 0,100,0 100,100,5 }; glVertexPointer(3,GL_FLOAT,0,&verts); so, adding this 5 to z coordinate doesn'd give me any perspective view. If it not so hard for you, please help. N.b. the DepthBuffer is set, and glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST); is set too. Thanks!

The perspective does not happen on a single axis, since you are manually calculating your perspective (you shouldn't be after this post) You would need to scale all the axes to a vanishing point. Where the object is infinitely small, in all direction, based on the depth.

This is all kind of complex. Luckily some genius figured out the projection matrix. Which allows you to project geometry into a perspective view space. You should try it out.

What you need is a gluPerspective() alternate. They are VERY simple. You should be able to find one easily. Use this as your GL_PROJECTION_MATRIX rather than the one generated by calling glOrtho(). It will handle the vanishing.

Two notes:

1.) as mentioned later in this thread, it is entirely possible to do the perspective calculation yourself, you're just doing it wrong. You need to scale x and y, based on z, not z itself. You'd adjust only the z if you were doing a perspective projection.

2.) it is perfectly possible and VERY common to use both an orthogonal and perspective projection in the same code / graphics frame. It's one of the very first organizational topics of rendering, how to store and utilize all the different view and projection matrices.

For my renderers i bind a view and projection matrix together in a "camera" struct. Then there are viewports, a viewport has a reference to some camera and also a list of stuff to draw.. oh wait am i not supposed to give away all the answer.. scenes ah.. hierarchy.. chew..

[Edited by - bzroom on May 20, 2009 6:22:28 AM]