Hi, I've implemented some View frustum culling (thanks to Mark Morleys tutorial), but in my SphereInFrustum method I pass in the objects world x,y and z position as opposed to the centre of the spheres x,y,z coordinate as he suggests but it still works perfectly, in fact, passing in the sphere's x,y,z coordinate gives strange results ?! Here is my method : BOOL CD3DManager::SphereInFrustum( float x, float y, float z, float radius ) { int p; for( p = 0; p < 6; p++ ) { if( frustum[p][0] * x + frustum[p][1] * y + frustum[p][2] * z + frustum[p][3] <= -radius ) return false; } return true; } This is how I precompute the objects sphere : j = 0; while(j!=OBJECTAMOUNT) { DWORD dwBufStart = g_Objects[j].nVertexBufferStart; d3dManager.SetBoundingSphere(&MyVertices[dwBufStart], g_Objects[j].dwVertexAmount, CUSTOM_VERTEX, g_Objects[j].pCenter,&g_Objects[j].radius); j++; } Then my rendering code which checks if object is visible (this shows I'm passing the objects world x,y,z position): j = 0; while(j!=OBJECTAMOUNT) { if(bCulling || d3dManager.SphereInFrustum(g_Objects[j].XPos, g_Objects[j].YPos, g_Objects[j].ZPos, g_Objects[j].radius )) { MakeWorldMatrix(&WorldMatrix, g_Objects[j]); g_pDevice->SetTransform( D3DTS_WORLD, &WorldMatrix ); g_pDevice->DrawPrimitive(g_Objects[j].nType, g_Objects[j].nVertexBufferStart, g_Objects[j].nVertexBufferEnd); } j++; } Just to re-iterate, I'm passing in the objects world x,y and z position - can anyone explain why this works ? If this is the case I don't need the sphere's x,y,z ?! Kind regards, sTeVe Edited by - steg on February 3, 2002 4:56:55 PM Edited by - steg on February 3, 2002 4:58:49 PM Edited by - steg on February 3, 2002 5:00:58 PM

Anyone ?!

Void,

What do you mean ?

Reg''ds,
sTeVe

I think void means that if your object isn''t centred at 0,0,0 you need to add that to your x,y,z parameters.

Neil


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Sorry - I wasn''t as clear as i meant to be.

Try this

BOOL CD3DManager::SphereInFrustum( Object )
{
int p;

for( p = 0; p < 6; p++ )
{
if( frustum[p][0] * (Object.x+Object.pCenter.x) + frustum[p][1] * (Object.y+Object.pCenter.y) + frustum[p][2] * (Object.z+Object.pCenter.z) + frustum[p][3] <= -radius )
return false;
}
return true;
}

Neil

(not sure but you might have to subtract th centre pos - just done quickly for you)

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Thanks Thedo,

I''ll try it tonight when I get home from work if I have time!

Reg''ds,
sTeVe

Just had time to try it out, method now is :

BOOL CD3DManager::SphereInFrustum( float x, float y, float z, float radius, float rx, float ry, float rz )
{
int p;

for( p = 0; p < 6; p++ )
{
if( frustum[p][0] * (x + rx) + frustum[p][1]
* (y + ry) + frustum[p][2]
* (z + rz) + frustum[p][3] <= -radius )
return false;
}
return true;
}

where x,y,z are objects world coordinates and rx,ry,rz are the spheres centre coordinates, this works fine but am still confused why the other way also worked (i.e, not having the spheres centre coordinates) ?

Thanks,
sTeVe

Possibly your object was already centred at 0,0,0. That way the transforming by the centre coord (0,0,0) would produce exactly the same result. That would explain it. If not then I really don''t know.

Neil

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