2D Pixel Print in OpenGL?
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Does anyone know a command like old school PSet (:p) that just puts a colored pixel at a coordinate? By coordinate I hopefully mean X/Y for the window. It''s for an OpenGL game, not for another program, so it needs to be opengl (?) to avoid flickers and the like. Thanks for reading :D
you might try....
tho, this might be slow....
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glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);glLoadIdentity();glOrtho(0.0, 640.0, 480.0, 0.0, -1.0, 1.0); // or whatever your screen resolution is....glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);glLoadIdentity();glBegin(GL_POINTS);glVertex2f(320.0f, 240.0f); // draw a point in the center of the screen.glEnd(); tho, this might be slow....
To the vast majority of mankind, nothing is more agreeable than to escape the need for mental exertion... To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.
I would REALLY recommend using texture mapped quads, or triangles. I don''t know if there is a Pset feature of OpenGL, but you can do something like that with glDrawPixels. Note that the pixel colors must be preprocessed, since you are only sending a bag of bytes to OpenGL. But if you cannot live without PSet, here is something I wrote out of the top of my head, check for errors!
void pset(float x, float y, unsigned byte colbyte)
{
glRasterPos2f(x, y);
glDrawPixels(1, 1, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, colbyte);
}
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void pset(float x, float y, unsigned byte colbyte)
{
glRasterPos2f(x, y);
glDrawPixels(1, 1, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, colbyte);
}
Create a kick-ass game! Looking forward to see some good titles!
Dan Fekete
dan@skyersoft.com
I think the * is needed
void pset(float x, float y, unsigned byte *colbyte){glRasterPos2f(x, y);glDrawPixels(1, 1, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, colbyte);}
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Thanks for the help. How would I go about drawing a 2D rectangle on the screen. I know about 3d cubes, but not flat rectanges independant of movement.
applying my code posted above....
also OpenGL has a glRect function.
To the vast majority of mankind, nothing is more agreeable than to escape the need for mental exertion... To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);glLoadIdentity();glOrtho(0.0, 640.0, 480.0, 0.0, -1.0, 1.0); // or whatever your screen resolution is....glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);glLoadIdentity();glBegin(GL_QUADS); glVertex2f(0.0f, 0.0f); glVertex2f(10.0f, 0.0f); glVertex2f(10.0f, 10.0f); glVertex2f(0.0f, 10.0f);glEnd(); also OpenGL has a glRect function.
To the vast majority of mankind, nothing is more agreeable than to escape the need for mental exertion... To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.
2D raster operations are slow. It is much faster to draw a high-res, texture=mapped, gouraud-shaded, transparently-blended quad in ortho mode than it is to throw a few raw pixels at OpenGL. Sounds strange, right? Well it''s the nature of the beast. Modern graphics hardware wasn''t designed for pixel-plotting.
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