Wierd Rendering Effects

There's probably a change in render states somewhere in the call to draw the picture. Figure out exactly what's going on in the process of drawing your image, and find out if any internal rendering states are being changed to make rendering a picture possible. If there are changes, figure out what the changes do and try to set them yourself so Text/etc always renders properly.

From what ive noticed all that changes is switching from perspective to orthographic projection between rendering the text and picture instead of the model of the key. I still cant figure out whats going wrong

Anyone?

Could you post your rendering code for the key model and picture as well as the portion where you are switching the render mode? It really seems to be a matter of subtle state changes. For example there might be a color that is changed by the model which affects the rest of the scene.

Please provide us some code so that we can help you with analyzing.

This is my view setup:
GLvoid GL::Init()
{
if (height==0)height=1;
glViewport(0,0,width,height); // Reset The Current Viewport
glDeleteLists(g_persp,1);
glDeleteLists(g_ortho,1);
g_persp = glGenLists(1);
g_ortho = glGenLists(1);
glNewList(g_persp,GL_COMPILE);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
gluPerspective(45.0f,(GLfloat)width/(GLfloat)height,0.1f,5000.0f);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
glEndList();
glNewList(g_ortho,GL_COMPILE);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
gluOrtho2D(0.0, (GLdouble) 800.0f, 0.0, (GLdouble) 600.0f);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
glEndList();
objCamera.mWindowWidth = width;
objCamera.mWindowHeight = height;
}
This is the key rendering code:
void C3dsLoader::Render_3ds()
{

for(int i = 0; i < m3DModel.numOfObjects; i++)
{

if(m3DModel.pObject.size() <= 0) break;

t3DObject *pObject = &m3DModel.pObject;

if(pObject->bHasTexture)
{
glColor3ub(255, 255, 255);

glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, TextureArray3ds[pObject->materialID]);
}
else
{
glColor3ub(255, 255, 255);
}

glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);

for(int j = 0; j < pObject->numOfFaces; j++)
{

for(int whichVertex = 0; whichVertex < 3; whichVertex++)
{
int index = pObject->pFaces[j].vertIndex[whichVertex];

glNormal3f(pObject->pNormals[ index ].x, pObject->pNormals[ index ].y, pObject->pNormals[ index ].z);

if(pObject->bHasTexture) {

if(pObject->pTexVerts) {
glTexCoord2f(pObject->pTexVerts[ index ].x, pObject->pTexVerts[ index ].y);
}
} else {

if(m3DModel.pMaterials.size() < pObject->materialID)
{
BYTE *pColor = m3DModel.pMaterials[pObject->materialID].color;

glColor3ub(pColor[0], pColor[1], pColor[2]);
}
}

glVertex3f(pObject->pVerts[ index ].x, pObject->pVerts[ index ].y, pObject->pVerts[ index ].z);
}
}

glEnd();
}

}

this is the picture rendering:
if(gotkey == false)
{
glPushMatrix();
glTranslatef(54.0f,-5.0f,-55.0f);
glScalef(4.0f,4.0f,4.0f);
Key.Render_3ds();
glPopMatrix();
}
else
{
glCallList(g_ortho);
if(!fullscreen)glRasterPos2i(645,500);
else glRasterPos2i(645,535);
glDrawPixels(56,56,GL_RGB,GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,(GLvoid*)Keypic);
glCallList(g_persp);
}

PLease could someone help

i don't see if you enable it but i'd try to disable GL_LIGHTING, GL_BLEND,

My guess would be something to do with your textures, I suspect that when you render something that isn't supposed to be textured it's using the last texture assigned.

Thanks for all the help guys. Turns out it was a texture problem. It was blending the last texture loaded in with everything, changing the color

Oh, too late [smile].

Just for clarification:

Suppose you have a texture which has a dark pixel at position 0. You render the textured object and afterwards render a nob-textured object. If you didn't disable texturing OpenGL will try to texture that object, too. Depending on your settings that could mean modulating the object's color with the texture. However, since the object should not be textured you didn't specify any texture coordinates, so OpenGL is likely to assume 0/0 for every pixel. Thus each pixel will be modulated with the darker texture color.

Thanks Lord_Evil...

It seems what you are saying is exactly what was happening. The way i fixed it was to draw an object out of view and bind a pure white texture to it but I'm going to do disable texturing after calls to drawing models and see what happens

Quote:

Original post by Emerican_360 Thanks Lord_Evil... It seems what you are saying is exactly what was happening. The way i fixed it was to draw an object out of view and bind a pure white texture to it but I'm going to do disable texturing after calls to drawing models and see what happens

Hi

Sorry to bother you, but I have a similar problem. I already make a thread about it, this is the link:
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=451801

Can you please be little more specific about your solution? Perhaps it will works to me too.

Thanks a lot.