Hello,

recently I have been trying to port over the OpenGL interface due to some problems with Intel Graphic chips which have a bad OpenGL driver in Windows. I need help to port a Quad in OpenGL to DirectX. Heres what i have done in OpenGL:

GL.Begin(BeginMode.Quads);
GL.TexCoord2(x1, y1);
GL.Vertex3(rx1, ry1, rect.Z + CGraphics.ZOffset);

GL.TexCoord2(x1, y2);
GL.Vertex3(rx1, ry2, rect.Z + CGraphics.ZOffset);
GL.TexCoord2(x2, y2);
GL.Vertex3(rx2, ry2, rect.Z + CGraphics.ZOffset);
GL.TexCoord2(x2, y1);
GL.Vertex3(rx2, ry1, rect.Z + CGraphics.ZOffset);
GL.End();

And here is what I am doing for DirectX rx1 = ((rx1 * 2) / ClientSize.Width) -1f;
rx2 = ((rx2 * 2) / ClientSize.Width) - 1f;
ry1 = ((ry1 * 2) / ClientSize.Height) - 1f;
ry2 = ((ry2 * 2) / ClientSize.Height) - 1f;

DataStream stream = _VertexBuffer.Lock(0, 0, LockFlags.None);
stream.WriteRange(new[] {
new TexturedVertex(new Vector3(rx1, ry1, 0), new Vector2(x1, y1)),
new TexturedVertex(new Vector3(rx1, ry2, 0), new Vector2(x1, y2)),
new TexturedVertex(new Vector3(rx2, ry2, 0), new Vector2(x2, y2)),
new TexturedVertex(new Vector3(rx2, ry1, 0), new Vector2(x2, y1)),
});
_VertexBuffer.Unlock();
m_Device.SetTexture(0, _D3DTextures[Texture.index]);
m_Device.SetStreamSource(0, _VertexBuffer, 0, Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(TexturedVertex)));
m_Device.DrawPrimitives(PrimitiveType.TriangleFan, 0, 2);

Unfortunetely the Textures are mirrored and the alpha Channel is displayed in black. I hope you can help me, I have been trying to get this working for 2 days now =/

Best regards xDarkice

Thanks for your answer! After setting m_Device.SetRenderState(RenderState.AlphaBlendEnable, true);
m_Device.SetRenderState(RenderState.DestinationBlend, Blend.InverseSourceAlpha);
m_Device.SetRenderState(RenderState.SourceBlend, Blend.SourceAlpha);
Alpha textures seem to render almost properly. But there are still some black blocks left.

Negating the y cords seems to work for the mirror part but the image is still some of sort of upset down. The main menu texture should be top. The ry1 and ry2 coordinates seem to be incorrect. Am I calculating them wrong? On top of that my Textures seem to be blurry and there might be a part missing ry1 = ((ry1 * 2) / CSettings.iRenderH) - 1f;
ry2 = ((ry2 * 2) / CSettings.iRenderH) - 1f;
I am multiplicating my coordinates by 2 and dividing them by the heigth and substracting 1.

I think I do not need to lock the buffer each frame. What should i initialize my DataStream with? Right now I am using DataStream stream = _VertexBuffer.Lock(0, 0, LockFlags.None);

The second picture shows how it is rendering in OpenGL. I disabled the background video in DirectX for testing purposes.

Now I just need to find a way to color the textures. But I think I can just add a new Color in my TexturedVertex struct.

Thanks for your help!

EDIT: I got the upside down fixed! I didnt had to negate y1 and y2, but ry1 and y2. But the blurry textures and texts arent fixed yet
EDIT2: The Black Bars seem to appear for a whitespace in a text

OpenGL interprets screen-space positions as the centre of the pixel
DirectX interprets screen-space positions as the top-left corner of the pixel
(Or is it the other way round?)

Either way, to stop your textures from blurring, you need to subtract 0.5 from your screen-space positions when changing between OpenGL and DX. This is like shifting them up-left by 0.5 pixels. So they will still fill the same pixels, but it will affect how the texture coordinates are interpolated, and should stop the blurring

I think the black bars appear because texture transparency is not drawn properly. For example my main menu bar should be drawn a little bit transparent like in the openGL pickture I included above.
My DrawGlyph function does render a transparent texture at whitespaces. This shouldnt be the problem because it is working in OpenGL aswell.

EDIT: I am providing my AddTexture and DrawTexture function:

public STexture AddTexture(Bitmap bmp, string TexturePath)
{
STexture texture = new STexture(-1);
if (bmp.Height == 0 || bmp.Width == 0)
return texture;
int MaxSize;
switch (CConfig.TextureQuality)
{
case ETextureQuality.TR_CONFIG_TEXTURE_LOWEST:
MaxSize = 128;
break;
case ETextureQuality.TR_CONFIG_TEXTURE_LOW:
MaxSize = 256;
break;
case ETextureQuality.TR_CONFIG_TEXTURE_MEDIUM:
MaxSize = 512;
break;
case ETextureQuality.TR_CONFIG_TEXTURE_HIGH:
MaxSize = 1024;
break;
case ETextureQuality.TR_CONFIG_TEXTURE_HIGHEST:
MaxSize = 2048;
break;
default:
MaxSize = 512;
break;
}

int w = bmp.Width;
int h = bmp.Height;

if (h >= w && w > MaxSize)
{
h = (int)Math.Round((float)MaxSize / bmp.Width * bmp.Height);
w = MaxSize;
}

if (w >= h && h > MaxSize)
{
w = (int)Math.Round((float)MaxSize / bmp.Height * bmp.Width);
h = MaxSize;
}

Bitmap bmp2 = new Bitmap(w, h);
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmp2);
g.DrawImage(bmp, new Rectangle(0, 0, w, h));
g.Dispose();


texture.width = bmp2.Width;
texture.height = bmp2.Height;
texture.w2 = texture.width;
texture.h2 = texture.height;

texture.width_ratio = texture.width / texture.width;
texture.height_ratio = texture.height / texture.height;

BitmapData bmp_data = bmp2.LockBits(new Rectangle(0, 0, bmp2.Width, bmp2.Height), ImageLockMode.ReadOnly, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
{
bmp2.Save(stream, ImageFormat.Bmp);
stream.Position = 0;
//Texture t = Texture.FromStream(m_Device, stream);
Texture t = Texture.FromStream(m_Device, stream, 0, w, h, 0, Usage.None, Format.A8R8G8B8, Pool.Managed, Filter.Default, Filter.Linear, 0);
t.AutoMipGenerationFilter = TextureFilter.Linear;
t.GenerateMipSublevels();
//t = Texture.FromStream(m_Device, stream);
_D3DTextures.Add(t);
}
bmp2.UnlockBits(bmp_data);
bmp2.Dispose();

// Add to Texture List
texture.index = _D3DTextures.Count - 1;
texture.color = new SColorF(1f, 1f, 1f, 1f);
texture.rect = new SRectF(0f, 0f, texture.width, texture.height, 0f);
texture.TexturePath = String.Empty;
_Textures.Add(texture);

return texture;
}

public void DrawTexture(STexture Texture, SRectF rect, SColorF color, SRectF bounds, bool mirrored)
{
if ((Texture.index >= 0) && (_Textures.Count > 0) && (_D3DTextures.Count > Texture.index))
{
float x1 = (bounds.X - rect.X) / rect.W * Texture.width_ratio;
float x2 = (bounds.X + bounds.W - rect.X) / rect.W * Texture.width_ratio;
float y1 = (bounds.Y - rect.Y) / rect.H * Texture.height_ratio;
float y2 = (bounds.Y + bounds.H - rect.Y) / rect.H * Texture.height_ratio;

if (x1 < 0)
x1 = 0f;

if (x2 > Texture.width_ratio)
x2 = Texture.width_ratio;

if (y1 < 0)
y1 = 0f;

if (y2 > Texture.height_ratio)
y2 = Texture.height_ratio;

float rx1 = rect.X;
float rx2 = rect.X + rect.W;
float ry1 = rect.Y;
float ry2 = rect.Y + rect.H;

if (rx1 < bounds.X)
rx1 = bounds.X;

if (rx2 > bounds.X + bounds.W)
rx2 = bounds.X + bounds.W;

if (ry1 < bounds.Y)
ry1 = bounds.Y;

if (ry2 > bounds.Y + bounds.H)
ry2 = bounds.Y + bounds.H;
rect.Z = 1f;
//y1 = y1*-1;

rx1 = (((rx1-0.5f) * 2) / 1280) - 1f;
rx2 = (((rx2 -0.5f) * 2) / 1280) - 1f;
ry1 = (((ry1-0.5f) * 2) / 720) - 1f;
ry2 = (((ry2-0.5f) * 2) / 720) - 1f;

DataStream stream = _VertexBuffer.Lock(0, 0, LockFlags.None);
Color c = Color.FromArgb((int)(color.A*255), (int)(color.R*255), (int)(color.G*255), (int)(color.B*255));
stream.WriteRange(new[] {
new TexturedColoredVertex(new Vector3(rx1, ry1*-1f, rect.Z + CGraphics.ZOffset), new Vector2(x1, y1), c.ToArgb()),
new TexturedColoredVertex(new Vector3(rx1, ry2*-1f, rect.Z + CGraphics.ZOffset), new Vector2(x1, y2), c.ToArgb()),
new TexturedColoredVertex(new Vector3(rx2, ry2*-1f, rect.Z + CGraphics.ZOffset), new Vector2(x2, y2), c.ToArgb()),
new TexturedColoredVertex(new Vector3(rx2, ry1*-1f, rect.Z + CGraphics.ZOffset), new Vector2(x2, y1), c.ToArgb()),
});
_VertexBuffer.Unlock();
m_Device.VertexDeclaration= TexturedColoredVertex.GetDeclaration(m_Device);
m_Device.SetTexture(0, _D3DTextures[Texture.index]);
m_Device.SetStreamSource(0, _VertexBuffer, 0, Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(TexturedColoredVertex)));
m_Device.DrawPrimitives(PrimitiveType.TriangleFan, 0, 2);
}
}

I am looking for a way to make textures a bit transparent.

Ok, thanks for your tip changing from BMP to PNG. This removed the black bars . Could you please provide a snippet how to not lock the Vertex buffer each frame, because I am not getting it? And i still need the textures to be a bit translucent.