Quick question regarding the use of the XMMatrixOrthographicLH function.

After spending several days trying to figure out why I couldn't render any 2D objects in my game I finally realised I had the incorrect inputs to this function (all fixed and working now!), I'm just unsure why my original inputs were wrong.

I currently have a camera with a near z of 0.1 and a far z of 1500 just as default but when using these values to create the orthographic matrix nothing would be rendered on screen. I now use the same function but with values of 0 and 1 respectively and everything works.

If someone could explain that would be appreciated as documentation / google searches just say that the near z and far z values are required.

Thanks!

Ah, turns out my Z was getting set to 0 and I hadn't noticed! I can't test my code right now but if I change it so the vertex Z is set to the near Z and use my original values, would I be correct in assuming it would work?

Thanks for your response though, makes a lot of sense. Always the simplest things that can be the hardest to spot when they are right in front of you !!