First of all, I need to explain you all what I mean. An example of what I am talking about is the game Minecraft where the item the player is holding is rendered as a texture extruded into the third dimension.
So how do I take a texture and extrude it?
Minecraft does not extrude any polygons. Minecraft uses simple polygons such as a rectangle and places a 16x16 texture on it. (Mods may use different resolution ones). The sword you are holding is made of polygons, it's not 2D.
To answer your questions anyways, there are several ways to "extrude" from 2D textures. Usually you use a technique called normal mapping or bump mapping. You may also use parallax mapping. Finally you can also use geometry shader to literally create new geometry.
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I know that there is something called mip-mapping where you can reduce the quality of textures over distance from camera wtih Gdx.gl.glGenerateMipmap();
However, I can't do that because I am using color attribute.
Is there any way for me to achieve mip mapping for the colors?
im using libgdx, and i can implements glsl shaders if needed
Thanks in advance
Edit, I want to change the flickering in the red circle.
However, I can't do that because I am using color attribute.
If by that, you mean that the colors are produced by per-vertex attributes, and the whole thing is a dense mesh that's a square... then there's not much you can do.
You can attempt to employ multisampling, but that can only do so much.
I was searching for an anti-aliasing algorithm for my OpenGL program (so I searched for a good shader). The thing is, all shaders want to do something with the textures, but I dont use textures, only colors. I looked at FXAA most of the time, so is there a anti-aliasing algorithm that just works with colors? My game, what this is for looks blocky like minecraft, but only works with colors and cubes of different size.
I hope someone can help me.
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Anti-aliasing has nothing specifically to do with either textures or colors.
Proper anti-aliasing is about sample rate, which while highly technical can be thought of as doing extra work to make a better educated guess at some value that cannot be directly looked up (e.g. a pixel that is only partially covered by a triangle).
Multisample Anti-Aliasing (MSAA) will work nicely for you, it will only anti-alias polygon edges and does nothing for texture aliasing on the interior of a polygon. Since you are not using textures you do not need to worry about aliasing inside a polygon.
Incidentally, FXAA is not proper anti-aliasing. FXAA is basically a shader-based edge detection and blur image processing filter. FXAA will blur any part of the scene with sharp edges, whether it is a polygon edge or an edge due to a mapped texture. It indiscriminately blurs anything it thinks is an aliased edge and gets this wrong often, resulting in blurry textures.
To use MSAA, you need:
A framebuffer with at least 2 samples
Enable multisample rasterization
Satisfying (1) is going to depend on what you used to create your window (in this case LWJGL). Most frameworks let you select the sample count as one of the parameters at the time of creation.
Framebuffer Objects can also be used to do this without messing with your window's parameters, but they are more complicated than need be for this discussion.
(2) is as simple as calling glEnable (GL_MULTISAMPLE).
I'm trying to make a project in OpenGL using JOGL.
If you see my image http://imgur.com/DDHoXEz, I have 4 viewports with different projections but all Teapots are out of "scale", and I want to make something like a bounding box, a square with side 1, that contains all objects on the viewports, to make a scale out of the square.
Any tips?
Unless you're going to use the base teapot model for programs (which you shouldn't), I don't think this is something to spend your time on. When you get into actually using your own models, you will have direct control over the scale.
I would recommend at this point learning about different drawing methods in OpenGL (e.g., GL_TRIANGLE_FAN, GL_LINE_LOOP). Then move on to learning about vertex arrays and maybe write an OBJ importer. I can point you in the right direction if you'd like.
Here is a good place to get started on different drawing techniques.
Happy coding!
How would you go about detecting collision on a rotated Image in a game? I am making an asteroids game an I cannot figure out how to make the asteroids properly collide with the rotated spaceship.
If the rotated object is one that implements the Shape interface, it may have a useful implementation of the contains() method.
In paint(), as you prepare to draw the in-motion image, check the pixel colors of the destination points and look for the target object's color(s). The in-motion image and the target object must be, of course, different colors.
Pixel-perfect collision detection, ie. collision detection between images, is generally really hard to do efficiently. For that reason, it is generally a good idea to use an existing, optimized library built for that purpose.
Since you also need support for rotated images, I recommend PoxelColl. It supports pixel-perfect collision detection as well as basic transformations such as scaling and rotation. It provides a Scala port, which is compatible with Java.
What exactly are you using for collision boundaries of your asteroid?
Simplest might be that you can just use circles for everything and implement a circle-circle collision detection (just google it). This may not visually pleasing if your images are not very circle like.
Otherwise, if you have rotating rectangles colliding with other rotating rectangles then you'll have to implement an algorithm using Separating Axis Theorem for 2D Rotated Rectangle Collision.
Another option might be pixel perfect collision detection which is what Chuck was talking about. A quick search turned up this forum post. Proceed with caution though, this method's performance degrades with the size of your images.
i am writing a 3d modeler similar to Blender for a game i am making. Since programs like blender export very complicated file types with alot of unneeded data i wanted to write a simple editor for my game. what i cannot figure out is how to map a point from a 2d projection on the window to where i have clicked in the 3d world with the world being rotated.
If anyone knows any good tutorials on how to do this or the method any help would be appreciated. I know i could use ray tracing but that would be to complicated i think.
The two main methods of mouse picking are:
Intersection Testing
Color Picking
Intersection tests are the more popular of the two, and at the simplest level involves 'shooting' out a ray and checking if it has intersected any points. The ray can also be replaced by a polytope if one wants to achieve more sensitive picking (useful for choosing points on vertices).
Color picking involves disabling AA, blending, shadows, etc. and re-drawing the scene using solid colors for the objects. glReadPixels is then used to find the color at the point of the mouse and this color is used to determine if it clicked on an applicable object.
Ray Picking:
Mouse Ray Picking Explained
Picking, Alpha Blending, Alpha Testing, Sorting
Color Picking:
OpenGL Selection Using Unique Color IDs
Picking Tutorial
The term you are looking for is mouse picking.
The method you need is gluUnProject. You'll need window x,y and the depth.
I think, in your case, it might be a lot easier to write a simple exporter for Blender.