Problems with ZBuffer

Hope I'm not wasting your 0 replies :p. If the Z-buffer is working and your not using an alpha-channel for alpha blending then it does not matter what order you render things in. If the Z-buffer is working properly everything should look like it is depth sorted.

Reading through your post, there are two things I can think. One... Are you rendering 2D images at the same depth value? If you are rendering 2D images you need to DISABLE the depth buffer and render them in the correct order so that they just lay on-top of each other.

If those are 3D objects that you are trying to render and they are in the correct world positions, then what kind of debugging have you done? Make sure that DirectX is not failing on the depth buffer creation. Also, make sure to TURN ON depth testing. I'm not sure if it is defaulted on or off. I'd also recommend that you turn backface-culling on if you don't, even though that probably wouldn't help your issue. :p

// Turning on and off the depth buffer
<your_pDevice>->SetRenderState(D3DRS_ZENABLE,true/*false*/);

I don't fully understod your problem, but maybe you could render the background first and then disabling depth buffering (pd3dDevice->SetRenderState( D3DRS_ZENABLE, FALSE);) and then render the border.

I will try to explain better..
- My aplication has a background, borders, start animation
- All the verteces are in one vertex buffer,in one struct CUSTOMVERTEX (background and borders have their own DWORD COLOR, and the start animation (with texture)
#define CUSTOMFVF (D3DFVF_XYZ | D3DFVF_DIFFUSE |D3DFVF_TEX1)
- Borders are on the Z axes in front of the background (-919.0f Borders and -920.0f Background) - this values are so big because I wanted the X = 1024.0f (+512.0f - -512.0f) and Y = 768....
- The ZBuffer is enabled and cleared when the render begin
- When the application starts I wan't to display 1 - the borders 2 - animation things 3 - background
- Here the background is over the borders.Why?How about the Z order?

Code for Zbuffer:
(in Presentation Parameters)
d3dpp.EnableAutoDepthStencil = TRUE;
d3dpp.AutoDepthStencilFormat = D3DFMT_D16;
....
(After Vertex Buffer create)
d3ddev->SetRenderState(D3DRS_ZENABLE, TRUE); // turn on the z-buffer
....
(Render)
d3ddev->Clear(0, NULL, D3DCLEAR_TARGET, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 0), 1.0f, 0);

Quote:

Original post by johnny_no1_boy (Render) d3ddev->Clear(0, NULL, D3DCLEAR_TARGET, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 0), 1.0f, 0);

That doesn't clear the Z-buffer. You want:
d3ddev->Clear(0, NULL, D3DCLEAR_TARGET | D3DCLEAR_ZBUFFER, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 0), 1.0f, 0);

sorry....i posted the wrong code line...i have this 2 code line....
VideoCard_Device->Clear(0,NULL,D3DCLEAR_TARGET,D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0,0,0),1.0f,0); VideoCard_Device->Clear(0, NULL, D3DCLEAR_ZBUFFER, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 0), 1.0f, 0);

so...still not working

[Edited by - johnny_no1_boy on August 3, 2007 7:31:20 AM]