Pixels and Units?!?!?!?!

It all depends on your projection matrix.
In my experiences, these are true:
(-1,1) for upper left
(1,-1) for lower right
(0,0) is the center of the screen.

Sometimes, this rule gets scewed, usually because of translations. In this case use glLoadIdentity() beforehand.
This rule may or may not be true for all screen resolutions/aspect ratio combinations.

I hope this answers your question!





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you can use gluunproject to convert screen cords to unit''s, but I can''t tell you how right now. can you wait until 12:15 server time?

This isn't really what you asked, but I think this is what you wanted it for: It convertes window cords to world cords.



inline void convert_cords(int mx,int my,GLdouble *rx,GLdouble *ry,GLdouble *rz)
{
GLdouble modelMatrix[16];
GLdouble projMatrix[16];
GLdouble dist,tempx,tempy;
GLint viewport[4];

glGetDoublev(GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, modelMatrix);
glGetDoublev(GL_PROJECTION_MATRIX, projMatrix);
glGetIntegerv(GL_VIEWPORT, viewport);

gluProject(0,0,0,modelMatrix,projMatrix,viewport,&tempx,&tempy,&dist);
gluUnProject(mx, viewport[3]-my, dist, modelMatrix, projMatrix, viewport, rx, ry, rz);
}





That at works as if there was a plane facing the user intersecting the origin and and rx,ry, and rz are set to a point on it's surface that when projected, would be at mx,my.

If you want to point onto the rendered geometry, use this instead:





inline void convert_cords(int mx,int my,GLdouble *rx,GLdouble *ry,GLdouble *rz)
{
GLdouble modelMatrix[16];
GLdouble projMatrix[16];
GLdouble dist;
GLint viewport[4];

glGetDoublev(GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, modelMatrix);
glGetDoublev(GL_PROJECTION_MATRIX, projMatrix);
glGetIntegerv(GL_VIEWPORT, viewport);

glReadPixels(mx,viewport[3]-my,1,1,GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT,GL_FLOAT,(void *)&dist);
gluUnProject(mx, viewport[3]-my, dist, modelMatrix, projMatrix, viewport, rx, ry, rz);
}




Edited by - smart_idiot on April 25, 2001 12:35:14 PM