void teBillboard()
{
float temp[16]={1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f}, m[16];
glGetFloatv(GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, m);
temp[0]=m[0];
temp[1]=m[4];
temp[2]=m[8];
temp[4]=m[1];
temp[5]=m[5];
temp[6]=m[9];
temp[8]=m[2];
temp[9]=m[6];
temp[10]=m[10];
glMultMatrixf(temp);
}
Billboarding
Author
Hey,
I''ve been using the following function for billboarding.
I think you are missing the whole point with billboarding here!
You use billboarding to make the particles always face the camera, and that will make it a little hard to rotate them!
- -- ---[XaOs]--- -- -
[ project fy ]
You use billboarding to make the particles always face the camera, and that will make it a little hard to rotate them!
- -- ---[XaOs]--- -- -
[ project fy ]
Author
You don''t see what I''m saying. When I rotate the camera, everything moves exept the particles. I WANT them to face the camera, but to have their center position moved. Understand what I''m saying? I just want to know if that is possible.
Alex Broadwin
A-Tronic Software & Design
-----
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"The answer is out there."
"Please help, I''m using Windows!"
Alex Broadwin
A-Tronic Software & Design
-----
"if you fail in life, you were destined to fail. If you suceed in life, call me."
"The answer is out there."
"Please help, I''m using Windows!"
When you multiply the current matrix by your "temp" matrix, you lose all translation informations.
Try this one instead :
Try this one instead :
float temp[16]={ 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f}
Author
I''m afraid that one just kills everything. When I use your temp it makes the particles all stretch from the center of the screen out to the lower left corner of the screen. I think you messed up somewhere.
Alex Broadwin
A-Tronic Software & Design
-----
"if you fail in life, you were destined to fail. If you suceed in life, call me."
"The answer is out there."
"Please help, I''m using Windows!"
Alex Broadwin
A-Tronic Software & Design
-----
"if you fail in life, you were destined to fail. If you suceed in life, call me."
"The answer is out there."
"Please help, I''m using Windows!"
I have found this works fine for me:
float m[16];
glGetFloatv(GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, m);
glPushMatrix();
glLoadIdentity();
glTranslatef(m[12],m[13],m[14]);
... draw particle ...
glPopMatrix();
I suppose you could glLoadMatrix(m) at the end instead of the push/pop but I think the card probably does it faster than sending 16 floats...
float m[16];
glGetFloatv(GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, m);
glPushMatrix();
glLoadIdentity();
glTranslatef(m[12],m[13],m[14]);
... draw particle ...
glPopMatrix();
I suppose you could glLoadMatrix(m) at the end instead of the push/pop but I think the card probably does it faster than sending 16 floats...
Author
you do that for EVERY particle? Yikes! Overhead must be INSANE.
Alex Broadwin
A-Tronic Software & Design
-----
"if you fail in life, you were destined to fail. If you suceed in life, call me."
"The answer is out there."
"Please help, I''m using Windows!"
Alex Broadwin
A-Tronic Software & Design
-----
"if you fail in life, you were destined to fail. If you suceed in life, call me."
"The answer is out there."
"Please help, I''m using Windows!"
OK what you need to do is NOT invert the 4th column of the matrix. I think how to do that is get the transformation matrix, then set everything to identity except the fourth column. This will reset all rotation and scaling to none (hopefully) giving you a quick billboard.
I read that somewhere on the Internet but I can''t find it now.
I read that somewhere on the Internet but I can''t find it now.
Yeah, it kinda seems that way, eh? Is there a better technique? If you''ve got a bunch of seperate items that all need to point back at the camera, I can''t think any method will get around having to do a bunch of work each particle.
It''s not that bad, really. It''s all internal to the card ''cept for the get matrix call and the translate.
It''s not that bad, really. It''s all internal to the card ''cept for the get matrix call and the translate.
Author
My way you just call once, then draw all particles, then pop the matrix. Simple enough. But I think I''m inverting part I should not be.... I''ll figure it out soon enough.
Alex Broadwin
A-Tronic Software & Design
-----
"if you fail in life, you were destined to fail. If you suceed in life, call me."
"The answer is out there."
"Please help, I''m using Windows!"
Alex Broadwin
A-Tronic Software & Design
-----
"if you fail in life, you were destined to fail. If you suceed in life, call me."
"The answer is out there."
"Please help, I''m using Windows!"
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