hello, I am trying to create a simple sprite based game and am having a problem my sprites are quads textured with the bitmap of the sprite. I was able to make the black background around the sprite be transparent by: glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); glEnable(GL_BLEND); glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA,GL_ONE); glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[0]); glBegin(GL_QUADS); glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f(-1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f); glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f( 1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f); glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f); glVertex3f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f); glVertex3f(-1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); glEnd(); glDisable(GL_BLEND); now when I compose my scene I want my sprites to be on the foreground and lets say a bunch of points or quads on the background, I have enabled depth-testing, but my background objects are always overwriting my sprites, NO MATTER what their Z position is whats going on?

If I know what you mean, I had this problem a while ago too. The best way of getting around it is to disable Depth Testing, and sort the objects yourself. If you think about it, that method is faster too. Instead of testing for each pixel, you test once per object.

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I believe what you''ll want to do is draw all of your background objects first, making sure that GL_DEPTH_TEST is enabled.

Then draw your sprites with GL_DEPTH_TEST disables. I believe this will fix your problem.. let me know

neither of these two solutions work

when I set the backgorund to green, it seems that the texture on my sprite is being blended with the background color
why is this happening?

anything I draw seems to superimpose itself over my sprite
even if I draw it before the sprite and behind the sprite

any ideas?
thanks

I would personally use .tga files for sprites cuz of the alpha channel in them and use
glAlphaFunc(GL_GREATER, 0.1f);
glEnable(GL_ALPHA_TEST);
That will make everything that is black (in the alpha channel in the tga file) not appear if ya need more help be glad to help ya.

quote:Original post by shizik
when I set the backgorund to green, it seems that the texture on my sprite is being blended with the background color
why is this happening?

anything I draw seems to superimpose itself over my sprite
even if I draw it before the sprite and behind the sprite

Why didn''t you say that in the first place? That''s different than what I though you meant .

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I''m just beginning in OpenGL, so correct me if I''m wrong, but can''t you disable blending or use some sort of masking to accomplish your intended effect?

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Edited by - Dactylos on October 19, 2001 9:42:00 AM