Hi,

I'm trying to work with transformed quads, that is to say, quads that have there vertices defined in screen coordinates. Basically im trying to shift those quads to different points on the screen. The trouble is, those points are defined in world coordinates.

I'm attempting to write a shader that will accept transformed vertices (from a 2D quad), and shift those vertices to a point on the screen (lets call the point 'p') which is defined in world coordinates. Point 'p' is passed to the shader along with the quad vertex.

So basically, i need to convert my point 'p' to screen coordinates using the shader, and then translate my quad coordinates (defined in screen space) to 'p'.

I have a base quad that has the vertex coordinates: (0,1,0,1), (0,-1,0,1), (1,-1,0,1), (1,1,0,1). I then scale and shift the quad in the shader as appropriate. For this example, i scaled the x component of the vertices by 100, and the y component by 2. So you basically end up with a 4pixel high quad x 100pixels wide. The quad is built around the screen origin (top-left corner) so all i have to do is shift all the vertices is the quad by 'p' to place the quad in the right spot.

I can get my quads to move around to roughly the right relative positions from each other, but not the correct positions on the screen. It seems the magnitude of the translations is not right (only guessing).

Main shader code is posted below. Any help would be much appreciated.


struct VSOutput
{
float4 Pos_ws;
float4 Pos_ps;
float4 Color;
};

VSOutput ComputeVSOutput2DShift(float4 position, float4 col, float4 p)
{

VSOutput vout;

// convert point to clip coordinates
float4 pCLIP = mul(p, WVP);

// convert point to screen space
float3 pNDC = pCLIP.xyz / pCLIP.w;

// adjust height
position.y *= 2;

// adjust width
position.x *= 100;

// convert vertex to screen space
position.xy /= ViewportSize;
position.xy *= float2(2, -2);
position.xy -= float2(1, -1);

// translate vertex
position.x += pNDC.x;
position.y += pNDC.y;

// set output data
vout.Pos_ps = position;
vout.Color = col;
return vout;

}


Well to anyone who was interested, I figured out what the problem was. I just needed to make a minor adjustment to my translate vertex code (see below). The problem was that i had not taken into account that the origin of the NDC system is the centre of the viewport. Since the NDC system ranges from -1 to 1, i just had to add/subtract one in the vertex translation code.


// translate vertex
position.x += spNDC.x + 1;
position.y += spNDC.y - 1;