Drawing a Floor

Honestly and sincerely, if you don''t know this yet, you''re not ready to make an FPS.

My opinion.

Yoda: Look at NeHe''s site. He has a lot of OpenGL tutorials. The 6th deals with texture mapping, and some of the later tutorials cover more advanced texture-related stuff.

I have to agree with the above posters though. Start small. The chance of you giving up increases with the size of your project.

LOL!! WHOA WHOA WHOA! Im not diving in and trying to make something like UT or Quake III here, I''m JUST trying to get a nice way to put in a floor... Sure, polygons/ quads work, but I AM starting small... Polygons were the first step, colored and lighting was second, now I''m trying to wrap an image on my floor to make it more realistic. Thats texture mapping, right?

Dont get me wrong, I know how hard and what is behind First Person games. They, right now, are so far ahead of me that I''m not worrying too much about them. I''m taking it one step at a time. Right now, I shall be happy with myself if I can get a decent floor, a ceiling (which will look like a sky) and be able to walk around. The controls are allready set, everything is good, now all I need is to figure out how to take an image and stick it on something. =)

I heard alot about binding and ID''s, but I was eavesdropping, and couldn''t catch everything.

Don''t think I''m some idiotic little newbie who after he learned how to make a triangle he wanted to program Quake 4. That''s a different person. =)

Anyway, thanks for the criticism and the few helping posts. =)

~Jesse

"Sleep is a waste of time."

Well Yoda, you could have expected such responses the moment you mentioned that you were programming an FPS. I wouldn''t really call my first attempts at OpenGL an FPS if I were you.

Anyway, you should really check out NeHe (see Dactylos'' reply). It has a good tutorial on texturemapping which should help with your floor. But that''s not all, it has much, much more tutorials which should help you with most of the things you will be adding afterwards.

Dont listen to these panzees!

Yes, as you mentioned you have to learn texture maping.

Draw a quand for your floor then learn how to texture gravel or rocks bitmap on to it or what ever you wish to map to it...

Oh, so wrap them on quads? =)

Okay, well, do you know of any place where I can read about it? Some place that explains it, so I can understand it?


~Jesse

Well, NeHe as already mentioned.
OpenGL Programming Guide. Look at chapter 9.
Lots of articles in gamedev.net''s "Articles & Resources" section.
Search google. Look around.

No one knows it off hand? Thats interesting... Okay, well thanks again...

I''m currently still in the process of learning how, and wanted to ask a question now that I am thinking about it.

So far, I have learned openGL with nothing but online tutorials. Recently, I have had the opportunity to visit amazon.com and place an order for an openGL book.

Now, I realize that every stupid noob asks this question, but just bare with me:

SuperBible first? Or something else. I am looking for something explanatory, so ya. Thanks again.

~Jesse

May I ask what your impetus for a negative attitude towards people is? Honestly now, if you do not wish to reply to a topic, all it takes is NOT to press the little button.

It would seem like they do not like you because:

a) Your post was that of a newbyish cry in a desperate attempt to create something way beyond your abilities.
b) You insisted on NOT visiting NeHe''s site, where all of them told you to go.

Your newbie mind is not yet fully developed, young Jedi.

Go read some books, some tutorials, etc, I''m sure you can find your answers.

zeus_

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Original post by YodaTheCoder
No one knows it off hand? Thats interesting...

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Most people who have used OpenGL knows how to do texture mapping (since it''s really pretty basic stuff), it''s just that considering how many articles and tutorials have been written about it I don''t think a lot of people feel like writing a lengthy reply. It''s so much easier to just give pointers to existing information. Besides, an explanation in a reply here would probably not be as extensive as what you can read in the articles and tutorials you have been given links to.

Can''t help you with the book question, I''d just like to point out that the "Red" and "Blue" books are available online here on gamedev. If you haven''t already looked at them, you should.

Good luck