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Stopping glUseProgram()

I'm using an opengl shader on a texture. Once the texture is done shading I want to stop the glUseProgram() function.
Presently the shader is going overtop of everything, including rectf() functions that I need to not be shaded.
I tried glUseProgram(0) but that didn't work.
related question: Java Opengl: Discarding Texture Background with Shaders
Here is the relevant code.
glPushMatrix();
dirPosd = i.torso.getPosition().mul(30);
glTranslatef(dirPosd.x, dirPosd.y, 0);
glRotated(Math.toDegrees(i.torso.getAngle()), 0, 0, 1);
glColor3f(1,1,1);
skel_torso.bind();
sizer = 40;
glUseProgram(shaderProgram);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f(0f, 0f);
glVertex2f( i.torso.getPosition().x - sizer-5, i.torso.getPosition().y - sizer-5); //NW
glTexCoord2f(1, 0);
glVertex2f( i.torso.getPosition().x + sizer-5, i.torso.getPosition().y - sizer-5); //NE
glTexCoord2f(1, 1);
glVertex2f( i.torso.getPosition().x + sizer-5, i.torso.getPosition().y + sizer-5); //SE
glTexCoord2f(0, 1);
glVertex2f( i.torso.getPosition().x - sizer-5, i.torso.getPosition().y + sizer-5); //SW
glEnd();
glPopMatrix();
glUseProgram(0); //Note here
glPushMatrix();
Vec2 shoulderPosL = i.shouldL.getPosition().mul(30);
glTranslatef(shoulderPosL.x, shoulderPosL.y, 0);
glRotated(Math.toDegrees(i.shouldL.getAngle()), 0, 0, 1);
glColor3f(1,1,0);
glRectf(-i.shoulderSize[0] * 30, -i.shoulderSize[1] * 30, i.shoulderSize[0] * 30, i.shoulderSize[1] * 30);
glPopMatrix();`
I've added a glUseProgram(0) statement, but when I added that the shader doesn't work at all.

You have to switch to a different shader, doing what you want for the other stuff rendering. Shaders are not something "wrapped" over something you render. Shaders are what make rendering work. If you disable the shaders, and your OpenGL context is not a compatibility profile no default fallback (to fixed function pipeline behavior) is provided and nothing renders. OTOH you're using the fixed function pipeline, but for that to work you have to parametize it properly (enable texture targets, modulation modes, colors and so on). It's generally easier to simply switch shaders instead of juggle with the FF pipeline state.

OpenGL GlOrtho no primitives appearing

I am drawing on a texture and then rendering this texture to the screen using GL_QUADS. There is no problem drawing the texture on screen, but while drawing to the texture the only operation that has any effect is glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); - this sets the whole texture to the colour I want. It is however impossible to draw any primitives.
The following code should absolutely cover the whole texture with black, right?
glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, texRenderer.framebufferID); // switch to the texture framebuffer
glClearColor(1.0f,0.5f,0.0f,1.0f);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glDisable(GL_SCISSOR_TEST);
glDisable(GL_CULL_FACE);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glPushMatrix();
glLoadIdentity();
glOrtho(0, texRenderer.pixelsWidth, 0, texRenderer.pixelsHeight, 1, -1);
// switch to modelview matrix before rendering objects
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
glColor4f(0,0,0,1);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glVertex2f(-100, -100);
glVertex2f(-100, 100);
glVertex2f(100, 100);
glVertex2f(100, -100);
glEnd();
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glPopMatrix();
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
//RenderScene(sim, stateMachine, viewSettings, commandMgr, font, texRenderer.pixelsWidth, texRenderer.pixelsHeight, isMainView, drawText);
glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, 0); // switch back to normal framebuffer
Instead it is orange.
pixelsWidth and pixelsHeight are both equal to 64. I've made sure the viewport is set up correctly. Also glGetError() returns 0.
What have I missed?

Took me 6 hours but the problem is solved. I was wrong. The viewport was not properly set. Before rendering to a texture, be sure to add the following line:
glViewport(0, 0, textureWidth, textureHeight);
And also unbind any currently bound textures using
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0);

Android OpenGL ES 1 - Polygon Edge

I am drawing a an arrow in using opengl es 1.0. I drew the arrow using a rectangle as the shaft and a pyramid as the tip. When the arrow is rotating from certain angles the shaft can be seen through the edge of the arrow tip.
Image of what is occuring: http://i.imgur.com/9K41OE8.png
My draw method
public void draw(GL10 gl) {
gl.glFrontFace(GL10.GL_CW);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_COLOR_ARRAY);
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_CULL_FACE);
gl.glVertexPointer(3, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, vertexBuffer);
gl.glColorPointer(4, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, colorBuffer);
gl.glDrawElements(GL10.GL_TRIANGLES, indexBuffer.capacity(), GL10.GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, indexBuffer);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_COLOR_ARRAY);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
}
I think it may have something to do with culling, but why would it only occur at the edge of the tip?

Depth testing must be enabled for this to look right. Use this:
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_DEPTH_TEST);
gl.glDepthMask(GL10.GL_TRUE);
And then don't forget to clear the bits before drawing a frame:
gl.glClear(GL10.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT | GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);

Android - OpenGL - Emulator vs Actual Device

I am writing a game which uses opengles. I have created my renderer class and have a sample of my game working on the emulator, however none of the texures display on an actual device. I have read about the most common cause for this being the need for texture to be a factor of 2 however I have tried drawing a square (128x128) with a texture of the same size mapped to it and this only shows on the emulator. Further to that my actual game will be using rectangles so I'm unsure how I can map textures that are squares to rectangles..
This is my code so far (The game is 2d so I'm using ortho mode):
EDIT: I have updated my code, it is now correctly binding textures and using textures of size 128x128, still only seeing textures on the emulator..
public void onSurfaceCreated(GL10 gl, EGLConfig config)
{
byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(shape.length * 4);
byteBuffer.order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder());
vertexBuffer = byteBuffer.asFloatBuffer();
vertexBuffer.put(cardshape);
vertexBuffer.position(0);
byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(shape.length * 4);
byteBuffer.order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder());
textureBuffer = byteBuffer.asFloatBuffer();
textureBuffer.put(textureshape);
textureBuffer.position(0);
// Set the background color to black ( rgba ).
gl.glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.5f);
// Enable Smooth Shading, default not really needed.
gl.glShadeModel(GL10.GL_SMOOTH);
// Depth buffer setup.
gl.glClearDepthf(1.0f);
// Enables depth testing.
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_DEPTH_TEST);
// The type of depth testing to do.
gl.glDepthFunc(GL10.GL_LEQUAL);
// Really nice perspective calculations.
gl.glHint(GL10.GL_PERSPECTIVE_CORRECTION_HINT, GL10.GL_NICEST);
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
loadGLTexture(gl);
}
public void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl) {
gl.glClear(GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL10.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
gl.glDisable(GL10.GL_DEPTH_TEST);
gl.glMatrixMode(GL10.GL_PROJECTION); // Select Projection
gl.glPushMatrix(); // Push The Matrix
gl.glLoadIdentity(); // Reset The Matrix
gl.glOrthof(0f, 480f, 0f, 800f, -1f, 1f);
gl.glMatrixMode(GL10.GL_MODELVIEW); // Select Modelview Matrix
gl.glPushMatrix(); // Push The Matrix
gl.glLoadIdentity(); // Reset The Matrix
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
gl.glLoadIdentity();
gl.glTranslatef(card.x, card.y, 0.0f);
gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, card.texture[0]); //activates texture to be used now
gl.glVertexPointer(2, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, vertexBuffer);
gl.glTexCoordPointer(2, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, textureBuffer);
gl.glDrawArrays(GL10.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
}
public void onSurfaceChanged(GL10 gl, int width, int height) {
// Sets the current view port to the new size.
gl.glViewport(0, 0, width, height);
// Select the projection matrix
gl.glMatrixMode(GL10.GL_PROJECTION);
// Reset the projection matrix
gl.glLoadIdentity();
// Calculate the aspect ratio of the window
GLU.gluPerspective(gl, 45.0f, (float) width / (float) height, 0.1f,
100.0f);
// Select the modelview matrix
gl.glMatrixMode(GL10.GL_MODELVIEW);
// Reset the modelview matrix
gl.glLoadIdentity();
}
public int[] texture = new int[1];
public void loadGLTexture(GL10 gl) {
// loading texture
Bitmap bitmap;
bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), R.drawable.image);
// generate one texture pointer
gl.glGenTextures(0, texture, 0); //adds texture id to texture array
// ...and bind it to our array
gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[0]); //activates texture to be used now
// create nearest filtered texture
gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL10.GL_NEAREST);
gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL10.GL_LINEAR);
// Use Android GLUtils to specify a two-dimensional texture image from our bitmap
GLUtils.texImage2D(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, bitmap, 0);
// Clean up
bitmap.recycle();
}
Is there anything I have done wrong? Or something I haven't done? It works perfectly fine in the emulator so I could only assume it was the power of 2 issue but like I said I tried that using a 128x128 texture on a square but it didn't show.. any help would be appreciated..
EDIT: I have also tried setting the minsdkversion is 3, loading the bitmap via an input stream bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is), setting BitmapFactory.Options.inScaled to false, putting the images in the nodpi folder and then trying them in the raw folder.. any other ideas?

I'm actually looking for the solution to a similar problem right now. I think I might have a temporary fix for you, however.
The problem appears to be that on the emulator the orthographic view is flipped. To solve this, in my app we added an option in preferences to manually flip the view if nothing draws. Here's the snippet that handles this:
if (!flipped)
{
glOrthof(0, screenWidth, screenHeight, 0, -1, 1); //--Device
}
else
{
glOrthof(0, screenWidth, 0, -screenHeight, -1, 1); //--Emulator
}
Hope this helps! If anybody has a more general solution, I'd be happy to hear it!

I didn't look at your code but I have been on that road before. Developing in OpenGL is a real pain in the ass. If you are not obligated to use OpenGL, then use a graphics engine. Unity is a great one and it's free. Also your game would work on Android, iOS or other platforms. Study your choices carefully. Good luck..

OpenGL: 2D Overlay is white over of 3D Scene

I'm trying to make a copy of MineCraft in Java using OpenGL (LWJGL). The problem I'm facing is that everything of my 2D overlay (aiming cross in the middle, menus, etc...) are all white. The 3D part of the game works great: every cube has a texture on each side.
But when I try to draw the overlay, as I said, every texture is white, but I can see the shape of it (because it has transparent areas). I'll add a picture of it.
(This is supposed to be the inventory)
As you can see, the overlay is completely white. And it should look like this:
I'm already searching the web for hours. Can't seem to find a solution.
This drives my crazy... I already searched for instructions of how to create a 2D overlay on a 3D scene, but they don't help either. So I though, I'll give StackOverflow a try.
Hopefully someone can help me?
Thanks for reading my question and for the (hopefully coming) answers!
Martijn
Here is the code:
Initialising OpenGL
public void initOpenGL() throws IOException
{
// init OpenGL
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
glOrtho(0, 800, 600, 0, 1, 300);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
float color = 0.9f;
glClearColor(color, color, color, color);
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glHint(GL_PERSPECTIVE_CORRECTION_HINT, GL_NICEST);
glShadeModel(GL_FLAT);
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glDepthFunc(GL_LEQUAL);
glEnable(GL_LINE_SMOOTH);
glEnable(GL_CULL_FACE);
glEnable(GL_FOG);
glFog(GL_FOG_COLOR, MineCraft.wrapDirect(color, color, color, 1.0f));
glFogi(GL_FOG_MODE, GL_LINEAR);
glFogf(GL_FOG_START, _configuration.getViewingDistance() * 0.8f);
glFogf(GL_FOG_END, _configuration.getViewingDistance());
glFogi(NVFogDistance.GL_FOG_DISTANCE_MODE_NV, NVFogDistance.GL_EYE_RADIAL_NV);
glHint(GL_FOG_HINT, GL_NICEST);
glEnable(GL_BLEND);
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
}
Configuring the matrixes for drawing the overlay (Out of inspiration, I literally copied all the OpenGL calls for this method from BlockMania (another open-source MineCraft copy), which works great)
public void renderOverlay()
{
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glPushMatrix();
glLoadIdentity();
GLU.gluOrtho2D(0, conf.getWidth(), conf.getHeight(), 0);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glEnable(GL_COLOR_MATERIAL);
glPushMatrix();
glLoadIdentity();
glDisable(GL_CULL_FACE);
glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glEnable(GL_BLEND);
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
/** RENDER **/
if (_activatedInventory != null)
{
_activatedInventory.renderInventory();
}
glDisable(GL_BLEND);
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glEnable(GL_CULL_FACE);
glPopMatrix();
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glPopMatrix();
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
}
Drawing the texture itself:
public void renderInventory()
{
Configuration conf = Game.getInstance().getConfiguration();
glTranslatef(conf.getWidth() / 2.0f, conf.getHeight() / 2.0f, 0.0f);
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
Texture tex = TextureStorage.getTexture("gui.inventory");
tex.bind(); // newdawn.slick (same library for my whole program, so this works)
float hw = 170; // half width
float hh = 163; // half height
Vector2f _texPosUpLeft = new Vector2f(3, 0);
Vector2f _texPosDownRight = new Vector2f(_texPosUpLeft.x + hw, _texPosUpLeft.y + hh);
_texPosUpLeft.x /= tex.getTextureWidth();
_texPosUpLeft.y /= tex.getTextureHeight();
_texPosDownRight.x /= tex.getTextureWidth();
_texPosDownRight.y /= tex.getTextureHeight();
glColor3f(1, 1, 1); // Changes this doesn't make any effect
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f(_texPosUpLeft.x, _texPosUpLeft.y);
glVertex2f(-hw, -hh);
glTexCoord2f(_texPosDownRight.x, _texPosUpLeft.y);
glVertex2f(hw, -hh);
glTexCoord2f(_texPosDownRight.x, _texPosDownRight.y);
glVertex2f(hw, hh);
glTexCoord2f(_texPosUpLeft.x, _texPosDownRight.y);
glVertex2f(-hw, hh);
glEnd();
}
(The texture pack I'm using is CUBISM1.00)

I found it!!
It was the fog. For one or another reason it looks like it thinks the overlay is out of sight and gives it the color of the fog. So, disabling the fog before rendering the overlay solved it.
glDisable(GL_FOG);
/* Render overlay here */
glEnable(GL_FOG);
If there are still people who read this, is this caused by matrix abuse or is this behaviour normal?