Thread: pixel coordinates(opengl)

is there any way for a given point in 3d space to get its projection in screen pixel coordinates using opengl and glut?

the problem is that i need to know where each of my point is going to be drawn in the screen before it does. I know how to do it analytically but i would prefer to avoid such thing.

I think you use glUnProject().

actually you would want to project, not unproject to get window coords from object ones.

see gluProject
and for reference gluUnProject

...3d space to get its projection in screen pixel coordinates ...

Sounds like he wants to move from 3D space to 2D screen space. In that case an unproject is required to undo the projection performed on the vertices.

hmm, i think we're on different wavelengths here.

In OpenGL you have a 3D representation of your model. You then project the 3D coordinates to screen space to get the 2D coords (this is done in the pipeline to render the frame). Given the current state of the matrices you can then unproject the 2D screen coords to get the original 3D coords.

So, moving from 3D object space to 2D screen space is a projection, not an unprojection.

Originally Posted by OpenGL Reference

gluProject — map object coordinates to window coordinates
gluUnProject — map window coordinates to object coordinates

Duh. Yep that would be a projection. Dunno what I was thinking.

Too much MFC me thinks.

>>Too much MFC me thinks.

Microsoft has claimed another soul

well gluProject worked even better than I thougnt thank for the tip