OpenGL Main Loop [SOLVED]

[g0bl1n]

Just curious, is there a way to use the OpenGL render function for drawing (Quads, Triangle Fans, etc...)?

[teto]

check irr::video::IVideoDriver::drawVertexPrimitiveList in doc.

[g0bl1n]

I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong, I can't get anything to show up on the screen. I looked at a few other posts and tried a few different examples but I can't get anyone else's code to show up either, am I missing something? Below is my current code (should draw a white cube face without backface culling).

Verts and Prims Declaration:

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float size=100;
float verts[4][3]=
{
        {-size,size,0},
        {size,size,0},
        {size,-size,0},
        {-size,-size,0}
};
 
unsigned int prims[4]=
{
        0,1,2,3
};

Draw Code (in main loop):

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irr::video::SMaterial material;
material.BackfaceCulling=false;
material.EmissiveColor.set(0xffFFff);
device->getVideoDriver()->setMaterial(material);
device->getVideoDriver()->setTransform(irr::video::ETS_WORLD,irr::core::matrix4());
device->getVideoDriver()->drawVertexPrimitiveList(verts,12,prims,4,irr::video::EVT_STANDARD,irr::scene::EPT_QUADS);

[mongoose7]

Well ... your vertices are not EVT_STANDARD.

I can't see the point in using Irrlicht for rendering but not using the render function. Are you just trying to learn OpenGL?

[g0bl1n]

I've found that drawing things yourself can be faster because you can do a whole lot of them at one time. Take Minecraft for example, try drawing 200,000 box nodes vs. drawing all the faces of the cubes at once, it's amazing how much faster it is. I'm going to do something similar with foliage and some other effects, what's nice about Irrlicht is that I do not have to create my own model loaders, I've been using OpenGL for a while and I made a MD2 loader...and after I finally got it working I decided I wasn't going to do it again. The only reason I stuck with OpenGL is that I can do so much with the render function (draw things in bulk).

Funny thing is that everyone says "You want a insertnamehere loader? Google it, they are everywhere!"...which is not a complete lie, but I've been trying for a week trying to get one of the many model loaders I've found to work properly... It seems as if some things work and others do not, I really only wanted something with basic animation ability. Problem is I'm going to use Blender, which (in the new versions) rules out MD2...so I'm still working on how I'm going to animate stuff...but at least I won't have to make a model loader...

[hybrid]

You have to call the drawVertexPrimitiveList inside the render loop.

[g0bl1n]

I changed my vertices to the S3DVertex type, but I'm having trouble with the normal vectors, mainly because I've never had to use them to draw anything standard (aka just to draw a simple shape with no translations/other transformations) in OpenGL. I figured at first the normal vector would be the "up" vector, but I've tried a bunch of different things, none worked thus far. I don't have to calculate a normal vector (e.g. a parrallel vector) to draw a simple quad do I?

Vertex Declaration

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float size=100;
irr::video::S3DVertex verts[4]=
{
        irr::video::S3DVertex(-size, size,0, 0,0,1, irr::video::SColor(255,0,0,0),0,0),
        irr::video::S3DVertex( size, size,0, 0,0,1, irr::video::SColor(255,0,0,0),0,0),
        irr::video::S3DVertex( size,-size,0, 0,0,1, irr::video::SColor(255,0,0,0),0,0),
        irr::video::S3DVertex(-size,-size,0, 0,0,1, irr::video::SColor(255,0,0,0),0,0),
};

Main Loop (Render Loop):

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device->getVideoDriver()->beginScene(true,true,irr::video::SColor(255,100,101,140));
        irr::video::SMaterial material;
        material.BackfaceCulling=false;
        material.EmissiveColor.set(0xffFFff);
        device->getVideoDriver()->setMaterial(material);
                device->getVideoDriver()->setTransform(irr::video::ETS_WORLD,irr::core::matrix4());
                device->getVideoDriver()->drawVertexPrimitiveList(verts,4,prims,4,irr::video::EVT_STANDARD,irr::scene::EPT_QUADS);
        device->getSceneManager()->drawAll();
device->getVideoDriver()->endScene();
 

Edit:
To my amazment this works:
Main Loop (Render Loop):

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device->getVideoDriver()->beginScene(true,true,irr::video::SColor(255,100,101,140));
        glDisable(GL_CULL_FACE);
        glBegin(GL_QUADS);
        float size=100;
        glVertex3f(-size,size,0);
        glVertex3f(size,size,0);
        glVertex3f(size,-size,0);
        glVertex3f(-size,-size,0);
        glEnd();
        device->getSceneManager()->drawAll();
device->getVideoDriver()->endScene();
 

But it would still be nice to know how to do this the Irrlicht way, that way I can using Irrlicht's lighting instead of making my own system!

[hybrid]

It shoudl be 4, prims, 1, but besides that everything seems good. Do you have a light? Else better disable lighting in the material

[g0bl1n]

Alright I figured it out, I wasn't using the right sized primatives, for an int array I need to use irr::video::EIT_32BIT, or use short array and irr::video::EIT_16BIT (which is the default).

Declarations:

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short prims[8]=
{
        0,1,2,3,
        4,5,6,7
};
 
float size=10;
S3DVertex verts[8]=
{
        S3DVertex(-size, size,0, 0,0,0,SColor(255,255,0,0),0,1),
        S3DVertex( size, size,0, 0,0,0,SColor(255,0,255,0),1,1),
        S3DVertex( size,-size,0, 0,0,0,SColor(255,0,255,0),1,0),
        S3DVertex(-size,-size,0, 0,0,0,SColor(255,255,0,0),0,0),
 
        S3DVertex(-size,0, size, 0,0,0,SColor(255,255,255,255),0,1),
        S3DVertex( size,0, size, 0,0,0,SColor(255,255,255,255),1,1),
        S3DVertex( size,0,-size, 0,0,0,SColor(255,255,255,255),1,0),
        S3DVertex(-size,0,-size, 0,0,0,SColor(255,255,255,255),0,0),
};

Render Loop:

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irr::video::SMaterial material;
material.BackfaceCulling=false;
material.Lighting=false;
material.EmissiveColor.set(0xffFFff);
device->getVideoDriver()->setMaterial(material);
device->getVideoDriver()->setTransform(irr::video::ETS_WORLD,irr::core::matrix4());
device->getVideoDriver()->drawVertexPrimitiveList(verts,8,prims,2,irr::video::EVT_STANDARD,irr::scene::EPT_QUADS,irr::video::EIT_16BIT);

Thanks all for help!