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Can't get the stencil buffer to work

Posted Friday, 9 April, 2010 - 20:37 by Polidobj in

I can't seem to get anything working with the Stencil Buffer. I even tried porting the simple example here:
http://www.opengl.org/resources/code/samples/glut_examples/examples/sten...
from this page:
http://www.opengl.org/resources/code/samples/glut_examples/examples/exam...
But all I get is black.

I've made sure I've defined to use 8 bpp for the stencil buffer in the graphics mode.

I'm using a NVIDIA Quadro FX 570.

Any ideas?

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Re: Can't get the stencil buffer to work

Posted Friday, 9 April, 2010 - 20:46 by the Fiddler

Try running the "Stencil CSG" sample in Examples->OpenGL. You should see a sphere "carving out" part of the capsule shape. If that works, then this is likely an application bug.

Can't really give any more advice without seeing some code but you can use the source code for the Stencil CSG sample as a guide.

Polidobj's picture

Re: Can't get the stencil buffer to work

Posted Friday, 9 April, 2010 - 21:41 by Polidobj

The sample works ok.

The relevant pieces of code:

Creating the control:

            GraphicsMode gm = GraphicsMode.Default;
            var graphicsmode = new GraphicsMode(
                gm.ColorFormat,
                gm.Depth,
                8, //gm.Stencil,
                gm.Samples, // 4 // anti-alias
                gm.AccumulatorFormat,
                gm.Buffers,
                gm.Stereo);
            GlControl = new GLControl(graphicsmode);

In the load event for the control:

GL.ClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
            GL.ClearStencil(0);
            GL.StencilMask(1);
            GL.Enable(EnableCap.StencilTest);

When Drawing:

            GL.MatrixMode(MatrixMode.Projection);
            GL.LoadIdentity();
            int[] viewport = new int[4];
            GL.GetInteger(GetPName.Viewport, viewport);
 
            GL.Ortho(0, viewport[2], viewport[3], 0, 0, 1);
 
            GL.MatrixMode(MatrixMode.Modelview);
            GL.LoadIdentity();
 
           GL.Clear(ClearBufferMask.ColorBufferBit | ClearBufferMask.StencilBufferBit);
 
            GL.StencilFunc(StencilFunction.Always, 1, 1);
            GL.StencilOp(StencilOp.Keep, StencilOp.Keep, StencilOp.Replace);
 
            /* red triangle */
            GL.Color3(200, 0, 0);
            GL.Begin(BeginMode.Polygon);
            GL.Vertex3(-40, -40, 0);
            GL.Vertex3(40, -40, 0);
            GL.Vertex3(0, 40, 0);
            GL.End();
 
 
            GL.StencilFunc(StencilFunction.Equal, 1, 1);
            GL.StencilOp(StencilOp.Incr, StencilOp.Keep, StencilOp.Decr);
 
            /* green square */
            GL.Color3(0, 200, 0);
            GL.Begin(BeginMode.Polygon);
            GL.Vertex3(30, 30, 0);
            GL.Vertex3(-30, 30, 0);
            GL.Vertex3(-30, -30, 0);
            GL.Vertex3(30, -30, 0);
            GL.End();
 
            GL.StencilFunc(StencilFunction.Equal, 1, 1);
            GL.StencilOp(StencilOp.Keep, StencilOp.Keep, StencilOp.Keep);
 
            /* blue square */
            GL.Color3(0, 0, 200);
            GL.Begin(BeginMode.Polygon);
            GL.Vertex3(30, 30, 0);
            GL.Vertex3(-30, 30, 0);
            GL.Vertex3(-30, -30, 0);
            GL.Vertex3(30, -30, 0);
            GL.End();

On resize:

            GlControl.MakeCurrent();
            int w = GlControl.Width;
            int h = GlControl.Height;
            GL.MatrixMode(MatrixMode.Projection);
            GL.LoadIdentity();
            GL.Viewport(0, 0, w, h);
Polidobj's picture

Re: Can't get the stencil buffer to work

Posted Monday, 12 April, 2010 - 15:16 by Polidobj

Friday afternoons suck for getting work done.

With some fresh eyes I found my problems:

I'm using my call to Ortho instead of the what's in the example:
GL.Ortho(-5.0, 5.0, -5.0, 5.0, -5.0, 5.0);

And I missed a problem with my porting of the code.
 glColor3ub(0, 0, 200);
I needed to change the 200. So the call should become:
GL.Color3(0, 0, 0.784);

Now to tinker some more with how this thing works.