🔒 Locked

Texture coordinates and animation

Started by Giedrius Jul 4, 2006 at 11:48 AM 5 replies 900+ views

Original Post

Jul 4, 2006 at 11:48 AM

I'm making a 2D game. For animating tiles/sprites, I have made my own format for saving graphics. All frames are put onto one image and when drawing that sprite/tile the correct frame gets selected by glTexCoord2f. Is there a way to specify direct position in pixels, instead of [0;1] range? If my images have odd frame number (like 9), the image is unstable when animating, because of incorrect precision when dividing numbers. This is the code that I have written:

void DrawSpr(sprite *spr)
{
	static int _frame = 0;
	int frame = _frame/100;
	double w = (double)spr->w / (spr->w*spr->num_frames);
	glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,spr->id);
	glBegin(GL_QUADS);
	glTexCoord2d(w*frame,0);
	glVertex2i(0,0);
	glTexCoord2d(w*frame+w,0);
	glVertex2i(spr->w,0);
	glTexCoord2d(w*frame+w,1);
	glVertex2i(spr->w,spr->h);
	glTexCoord2d(w*frame,1);
	glVertex2i(0,spr->h);
	glEnd();
	_frame++;
	if (_frame>spr->num_frames*100) _frame = 0;
}

It currently is very unclean. I'll clean it after I solve this problem. [Edited by - Giedrius on July 4, 2006 3:18:49 PM]

nts

Jul 4, 2006 at 2:15 PM

Quote:
Original post by Giedrius
I'm making a 2D game. For animating tiles/sprites, I have made my own format for saving graphics. All frames are put onto one image and when drawing that sprite/tile the correct frame gets selected by glTexCoord2f. Is there a way to specify direct position in pixels, instead of [0;1] range? If my images have odd frame number (like 9), the image is unstable when animating, because of incorrect precision when dividing numbers. This is the code that I have written:
*** Source Snippet Removed ***It currently is very unclean. I'll clean it after I solve this problem.

Need a bit more info. Which division is causing the problem? How is the animation unstable? I would think that the double's you are using would have more than enough precision...

The only way (AFAIK) to specify coordinates in pixels would be to use the ARB_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE extension.

Are you currently using a timer to update the animations or just the counter variable?

Giedrius

Jul 4, 2006 at 2:48 PM

I will use a timer later, this is a temporary solution to slow the animation down. I'm just playing with it, trying to get the animation work. I haven't made no OpenGL animations yet. One divided by 9 is 0.(1). That's what is making it unprecise. And I believe that's why the objects image is "jumpy". If you can't understand, I probably can upload a demo for it. I'm going to check that extension out.

Giedrius

Jul 4, 2006 at 3:17 PM

Hmm, that extension seems to be only supported with new graphics cards. Although my video card has that extension, the requirements would be too big for my game. How should I do animation in OpenGL? I don't want to take a lot of texture ids for one animation.

kordova

Jul 4, 2006 at 5:53 PM

What sort of frame dimensions are you using? Are they all the same?

I have done this in the past without issue, while using the same frame sizes for all of a sprites frames.

Giedrius

Jul 5, 2006 at 12:14 AM

My image for animation is 288x32. Each frame size is 32x32.

Giedrius

Jul 5, 2006 at 5:45 AM

I think that jumpiness was caused because my image width wasn't power of two. When it's power of two, it is normal.

Topic Locked

This topic has been locked by a moderator. New replies are not allowed.