Rendering Bezier Patches from Quake 3 bsp levels
Author
Right, the time has come for me to render the patches section of the Quake3 level. I imaging this is done with functions like :
glMap2f(...);
glMapGrid2f(...);
glEvalMesh2(...);
How do I now render the patches section, does anybody have a code example or pseudocode or something, as I am finding it very complicated. I am not sure how to use the vertices from the level to generate a proper sized curved surface.
Can anybody help?
-Weasalmongler
You use the vertices as control points on a quadratic bezier surface.
Quadratic bezier surfaces are 3x3, so if you have a greater size in a patch, you can divide it up into 3x3 patches and render those. Remember that they have to share a set of control points to be continuous, though. A 3x5 patch, for example, is really a pair of 3x3 patches.
I can''t help you out with any code examples for EvalMesh, unfortunately. I tesselate my patches at load time to save on CPU resources. With EvalMesh you''re stuck tesselating at run time unless you are willing to use display lists.
Quadratic bezier surfaces are 3x3, so if you have a greater size in a patch, you can divide it up into 3x3 patches and render those. Remember that they have to share a set of control points to be continuous, though. A 3x5 patch, for example, is really a pair of 3x3 patches.
I can''t help you out with any code examples for EvalMesh, unfortunately. I tesselate my patches at load time to save on CPU resources. With EvalMesh you''re stuck tesselating at run time unless you are willing to use display lists.
Author
Thanks, your information has helped.
I still feel that I need more help though, could anybody else go into more detail and maybe give some pseudocode examples.
-Weasalmongler
I still feel that I need more help though, could anybody else go into more detail and maybe give some pseudocode examples.
-Weasalmongler
If you''re going to use OpenGL evaluators, the Red Book has code examples for drawing bezier surfaces.
If you want to tesslate the bezier patches yourself, then read over the articles about bezier curves and patches here on gamedev, which are pretty decent.
There really isn''t anything special about quake3''s bezier patches, so any tutorials you find (like the one at Nehe''s site) are going to apply.
If you want to tesslate the bezier patches yourself, then read over the articles about bezier curves and patches here on gamedev, which are pretty decent.
There really isn''t anything special about quake3''s bezier patches, so any tutorials you find (like the one at Nehe''s site) are going to apply.
Author
Sorry, I know how to use the OpenGL evaluators, I have some information on it already from books, what I don''t understand is how to use the Quake3 format of faces and meshes etc, with the evaluators to draw the surface, How do I only pass the proper vertices to the functions?
-Weasalmongler
-Weasalmongler
Well, the Red Book uses a [4][4][3] array for a cubic surface. Cubic''s have 4x4 control points, and quake uses quadratics, which have 3x3 control points. Copy the vertex positions pointed to by the face into a [3][3][3] array of floats.
Then just follow the existing example. The only other change ought to be knocking down the ''order'' argument of the evaluator by one.
Then just follow the existing example. The only other change ought to be knocking down the ''order'' argument of the evaluator by one.
Author
Could you post the section of code here?
I don''t have the Red Book and I cannot get access to the online version (can''t get there for some reason).
Thx.
Weasalmongler
I don''t have the Red Book and I cannot get access to the online version (can''t get there for some reason).
Thx.
Weasalmongler
Ok. You can download all the source code to the red book from
ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/pub/opengl/opengl1_1.tar.Z
If you can''t get there either, here is the relevant section:
Example 12-2 : Bézier Surface: bezsurf.c
#include <GL/gl.h>#include <GL/glu.h>#include <stdlib.h>#include <GL/glut.h>GLfloat ctrlpoints[4][4][3] = { {{-1.5, -1.5, 4.0}, {-0.5, -1.5, 2.0}, {0.5, -1.5, -1.0}, {1.5, -1.5, 2.0}}, {{-1.5, -0.5, 1.0}, {-0.5, -0.5, 3.0}, {0.5, -0.5, 0.0}, {1.5, -0.5, -1.0}}, {{-1.5, 0.5, 4.0}, {-0.5, 0.5, 0.0}, {0.5, 0.5, 3.0}, {1.5, 0.5, 4.0}}, {{-1.5, 1.5, -2.0}, {-0.5, 1.5, -2.0}, {0.5, 1.5, 0.0}, {1.5, 1.5, -1.0}}};void display(void){ int i, j; glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); glColor3f(1.0, 1.0, 1.0); glPushMatrix (); glRotatef(85.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0); for (j = 0; j <= 8; j++) { glBegin(GL_LINE_STRIP); for (i = 0; i <= 30; i++) glEvalCoord2f((GLfloat)i/30.0, (GLfloat)j/8.0); glEnd(); glBegin(GL_LINE_STRIP); for (i = 0; i <= 30; i++) glEvalCoord2f((GLfloat)j/8.0, (GLfloat)i/30.0); glEnd(); } glPopMatrix (); glFlush();}void init(void){ glClearColor (0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0); glMap2f(GL_MAP2_VERTEX_3, 0, 1, 3, 4, 0, 1, 12, 4, &ctrlpoints[0][0][0]); glEnable(GL_MAP2_VERTEX_3); glMapGrid2f(20, 0.0, 1.0, 20, 0.0, 1.0); glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST); glShadeModel(GL_FLAT);} This topic is closed to new replies.
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