Hey,

The past couple of days I've been running into some troubles attempting to update my VBO. I've taken the approach of allocating extra size at the start, so that when I need to add some more sprites in there is room.

Basically I'm doing things like this:

Create all the sprites I need at the start and put them in a VBO, but make sure the VBO has space for extra sprites

// all my sprite data currently resides here
std::vector<Vertex> m_vertices;

// create an opengl VBO

glGenVertexArrays(1, &m_vaoId);
glBindVertexArray(m_vaoId);

// times 6 because there are 6 verts for a quad of two triangles
int size = (m_vertices.size() + (numExtraSprites * 6)) * sizeof(Vertex);

glGenBuffers(1, &m_vboId);
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, m_vboId);
glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, size , NULL, GL_STATIC_DRAW);
glBufferSubData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0, m_vertices.size() * sizeof(Vertex), &m_vertices[0]);

glEnableVertexAttribArray(0);
glVertexAttribPointer(0, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof(Vertex), BUFFER_OFFSET(0));

glEnableVertexAttribArray(1);
glVertexAttribPointer(1, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof(Vertex), BUFFER_OFFSET(12));

Now this is fine, everything works perfectly and draws as expected.

I've got it setup so that when i click with the mouse, it will add another sprite of the same type at the mouse location.

This just involves me creating a temporary std::vector<Vertex> with 6 new vertices in it positioned at the mouse location.

Then I attempt to update my VBO.

void SpriteBatch::Update()
{
    int offset = m_vertices.size() * sizeof(Vertex);
    int size = sizeof(Vertex) * 6; // 6 because there is one more sprite to be updated

    glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, m_vboId);
    glBufferSubData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER,
                    offset,
                    size,
                    &m_tempSpriteVec[0]); // m_tempSpriteVec holds the new 6 verts

    m_vertices.insert(m_vertices.end(), m_tempSpriteVec.begin(), m_tempSpriteVec.end());

    m_tempSpriteVec.clear();
}

This does not work, even though the vbo should have sufficient size? I've noticed if I just update one of the existing sprites (say the first 6 vertices of the vbo) then It works, but shouldn't it be big enough for the new data?

Thanks guys

Tried GL_DYNAMIC_DRAW but no change.

Are you using the right amount of vertices/triangles/whatever when doing the draw call?

THAT WAS IT! Thank you very much, can't believe I didn't consider that.