Would anyone be able to explain some simple OpenGL Fade-In / Out routines please? I''m assuming it''s something like store an image in the buffer, make the screen black, set the palette of the image in the buffer to black...swap buffers..and then slowly bring in the palette to it''s normal setting? this is just a rudimentary guess, remembering the old ways i used to do fades in turbo pascal anyway, any help would be appreciated. cheers,

Even JPG''s are considered textures in OpenGL?

i did not know that. are they? =)

same deal theory for the fade even if using a jpg?

cheers,


at

basically all i wanted to do was take a couple simple texture maps and have a y''know

black screen
(fade in)
aphidtwix presents
(fade out)
black screen
(fade in)
a such and such production
(fade out)
black screen
(fade in)
programming: aphidtwix
music: aphidtwix
3d gfx: zulu
(fade out)
black screen

that''s basically all im going for..what''s the easiest way to go about that?

err not the easiet..but the best and most optimized way of going about that, excluding going to ASM cause i know squat about ASM.

Ok, i got all that black transparent / opaque quad setup covering my texture. I know because when is the alpha to varying degrees 0.0 -> 1.0 i see it or i dont.

my next question is the matter of actually fading it in.
i tried a really stupid timer setup that i used which totally did not work. it just flashed and disappeared..i''ve setup a new timing method and im curious if anyone sees anything wrong in my timing code (well obviously cause it does''t work) heh..

here is my timer code...this function was borrowed from somewhere. i forget exactly where so sorry. but it was a basic timer setup.

GLfloat GetTimePassed()
{
GLfloat timeoffset;
GLfloat currenttime;

if (lasttime == 0) lasttime = (GLfloat)GetTickCount();
// Get the current time
currenttime = (GLfloat)GetTickCount();
// Calculate the offset
timeoffset = currenttime - lasttime;
// Put the current time in the lasttime variable
lasttime = currenttime;
// return the time offset in seconds per frame
return timeoffset / 1000;
}


now in my actual code i have the follwing:

GetTimePassed();
if ( lasttime >= 0 )
{
this->ourTexture->Skin();

glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA,GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
// The Black Quad
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glVertex3f(-1.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f( 1.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glEnd();

glBegin(GL_QUADS);
// The Texture That we want to fade in
// (hidden behind the black quad)
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f(-1.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f( 1.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f); glVertex3f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f); glVertex3f(-1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glEnd();

do
{
glColor4f(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,a);
a+=lasttime;
} while (lasttime <= ??? (what shold this be?) );
}

glFlush ();

btw before all this stuff comes in glInit() i set
glColor4f(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,0.0f);


any help would be appreciated =)

cheers,


at

not sure if i am right here but what tha heck....


I think you should do it like this....



glColor4f (0,0,0,a);
//DRAW BLACK QUAD!!


glColor4f (1,1,1,1);
//DRAW TEXTURED QUAD!


if (a>0 && a<1)
[edit : ----> if (a>=0 && a<1) ] //This should be more right
a += Tick;
else
a -= Tick

if (a<0)
{
//SWITCH TEXTURES
a = 0.0f; //Reset fade value to start over again....
}


Hope this can help you out a little...
This almost the same way as i do it myself... (I took this from my head...but it's not the hardest topic around so it might be almost right from my own code...)!!

Take Care!




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Edited by - xaos on September 12, 2001 10:01:27 AM