Background images?

You have to wrap the bitmap texture with something! If you require a big quad then do it! nothing wrong with a huge quad. Skyboxes use the largest quad available in a 3D world

What you probably want is to disable lighting and z-buffering and place several quads with a chopped-up texture in front of the camera. Do this before camera rotations/translations. Then you can re-enable lightning and z-buffering to draw your 3d objects.

Hope this helps.

look:

glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glPushMatrix();
glLoadIdentity();

glOrtho2D(0,1,0,1,-1,1);
//possible to swap 3. and 4. arg, when you see nothing...

glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);

glPushMatrix();
glLoadIdentity();
glRasterPos2i(0,0);
glDrawPixels(1024,768,GL_RGB,GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,image);
glPopMatrix();

glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glPopMatrix();
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);


I don't know whether it is without errors, i haven't my help here, so glDrawPixels may have bad num of arguments, or such problem.

(image is a pointer to loaded 24bit RGB bitmap flipped upside down, here with size of 1024*768*3 bytes)

[edited by - exa_einstein on August 11, 2003 10:09:16 AM]

Thanks. This looks like it''ll do nicely.

azimuth: How would I disable Z-buffering? I imagine that it''s glDisable(something), but I don''t know what flag to put in place of "something" to disable Z-buffering.

exa_einstein: I tried your code but my compiler complains that glOrtho2D() doesn''t exist.

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exa_einstein: I tried your code but my compiler complains that glOrtho2D() doesn''t exist.

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Try glOrtho()

you can disable WRITES to the z-buffer with glDepthMask(0);
(and enable with glDpMsk(1); 1 is default)

Depth testing you can glEnable/glDisable with arg. GL_DEPTH_TEST

also you have glDepthFunc(GL_ALWAYS/EQUAL/LESS/LEQUAL/GREATER/GEQUAL/NEVER);

and if you want to completely remove z-buffer, you must set pixelformatdescriptor.DepthBits to 0 (i don't know whether it really exact ident pfd.DepthBits, so try msdn)

[edited by - exa_einstein on August 12, 2003 5:57:06 AM]