3D window inside of a subform

Posted Thursday, 3 April, 2008 - 23:21 by Technolithic in

I'm new to OpenGL, not to mention OpenTK, as well as C#. I checked out the OpenGL RedBook to try and gain a better understanding of how it works, but it seems when I make a small change in the z-depth of a point, nothing appears on the screen. I grabbed this stuff out of the tutorial, which works great for a 2D graphics window, but I'm having problems with getting 3D to work. The window draws nothing outside of a z-depth of 0-1, inclusive.

I'm betting that the problem is obvious to anybody with some experience. I was working with Tao before this, but decided to give OpenTK a shot, because it claims to have easy implementation and seems it should work amazingly with what I'd like to accomplish with subforms. With the easy-to-use part, it seems that more people would flock toward OpenTK. Can someone please help the noob??! Thanks. Oh yeah, for the posting requirements: I'm using OpenTK ver. 0.9.0

As per the OOP design of this project, all code for the glcontrol needs to be contained in the Viewport class.

   public class Viewport : Form
    {

        // PROPERTIES:

        private OpenTK.GLControl glControl1;
        private bool loaded = false;


        // METHODS:

        private void Viewport_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            loaded = true;
            GL.ClearColor(Color.Black);
            SetupViewport();
        }

        private void SetupViewport()
        {
            int w = glControl1.Width;      
            int h = glControl1.Height;
           
            GL.MatrixMode(MatrixMode.Projection);
            GL.LoadIdentity();
            GL.Ortho(0, w, 0, h, -1, 1); // Bottom-left corner pixel has coordinate (0, 0)
            GL.Viewport(0, 0, w, h); // Use all of the glControl painting area
            GL.Enable(EnableCap.DepthTest);
        }

        private void glControl1_Resize(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            int myWidth = Width;

            if (!loaded)
                return;

            if (myWidth == 0)
                myWidth = 1;

            GL.MatrixMode(MatrixMode.Projection);
            GL.LoadIdentity();
                       
            Glu.Perspective(45, 1.0, 0.1, 1000);

            GL.MatrixMode(MatrixMode.Modelview);
            GL.LoadIdentity();
        }

        // render the graphics in the viewport
        private void glControl1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
        {
            if (!loaded) // don't execute if not already loaded!
                return;

            GL.Clear(ClearBufferMask.ColorBufferBit | ClearBufferMask.DepthBufferBit);

            GL.MatrixMode(MatrixMode.Modelview);
            GL.LoadIdentity();
           
            GL.Color3(Color.Yellow);            
            GL.PointSize(2.0f);

            GL.Begin(BeginMode.Points);

                GL.Vertex3(50.0, 50.0, 0.0);
                GL.Vertex3(60.0, 60.0, 0.5);
                GL.Vertex3(70.0, 70.0, 1.0);
                GL.Vertex3(80.0, 80.0, 1.1);
                       
            GL.End();
           
            glControl1.SwapBuffers();
        }

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Comments

Apr 03
 04:36:39
Re: 3D window inside of a subform
posted by the Fiddler

The call to GL.Ortho sets an orthographic projection with z values from -1 to 1:

GL.Ortho(0, w, 0, h, -1, 1); // Bottom-left corner pixel has coordinate (0, 0)

Try replacing it with a call to Glu.Perspective:

Glu.Perspective(60.0, 4.0/3.0, 1.0, 100.0);

Apr 04
 13:17:58
Re: 3D window inside of a subform
posted by Inertia

You are also missing a Glu.LookAt() call for your modelview matrix, the folder \Source\Examples\Tutorial\ in the OpenTK distribution contains several working examples.

Apr 04
 13:43:44
Re: 3D window inside of a subform
posted by Technolithic

I tried your suggestion and it still gave me a solid black graphics window until I plotted points in a n^3 nested for loop... 8 million points and it filled the screen with yellow, cool!!!

Now I just need to go back and work the formulas in the RedBook to find out what values I need for Glu.Perspective and Glu.LookAt.

Thanks for the help and the hella quick response. This forum rocks and so does OpenTK!!!