Thread: openGL background scrolling

Well, the simplest way would be to do a glTranslate just before you draw the background. You're already pushing the matrix to save it, which means the translate won't affect the rest of your code. You only need to push/pop once. All pushing and popping does is save the current matrix for you; flags like GL_BLEND are handled separately. So, suggestion:

Code:

    glPushMatrix();
        glEnable(GL_BLEND);
        glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);  // blending on a background texture? is that really necessary?
        glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, BackgroundTexture[imageNumber].texID );
        glTranslatef(someYOffset, 0.0f, 0.0f);
         
        glBegin(GL_QUADS);
            int height = 100 * 1.333/1.5;  // you're not using this variable anywhere...
            glTexCoord2i(0,0); glVertex2i(0,600);  // you can use the i variants if you're passing integers
            glTexCoord2i(1,0); glVertex2i(1600,600);
            glTexCoord2i(1,1); glVertex2i(1600,0);
            glTexCoord2i(0,1); glVertex2i(0,0);
        glEnd();
        
        glDisable(GL_BLEND);
    glPopMatrix();

Just change the someYOffset every frame, left or right, and you'll have a scrolling background.

Well if you want a scrolling background, change it a little bit each frame. Hackish example:

Code:

static double someYOffset = 0.0;
someYOffset += 0.1;
if(someYOffset > 1000.0) someYOffset -= 1000.0;

If you want it to depend on the character's movement, then change the variable based on the character's position. Example:

Code:

double someYOffset = character.getXPosition() % 1000;

If you need to do floating-point modulus, check out fmod().

Your code for the background moved for right to left, how should I move from left to right. And how should I put a stopped for the image when it reach a certain limit so the background map would stopped moving when the image has reached the maximum limit. Thank you for your help.

Well if you want left-to-right instead of right-to-left, just put a negative someYOffset instead of a positive one! i.e. subtract a little bit from someYOffset each frame until it hits -1000 or something, then wrap back to 0.

I was under the impression that you wanted the background map to wrap. If instead you want it to stop moving, as you "reach the edge of the map" as it were, then just don't let the YOffset value go less than (or greater than) some particular value. Example:

Code:

if(someYOffset < -1000) someYOffset = -1000;

What exactly are you using the background map for? I thought it was just decoration but if it's actually the main background for a 2D game or something, you should use a different method to display it... this method is okay for small images but if you have a big map it's going to be inefficient, and maybe hard to control...

What do you have so far, exactly? This is pretty straightforward stuff. Maybe you should read the first bit of some opengl tutorials. A really good one is NeHe Productions - Everything OpenGL