I'm working on a simple demo app. What i need to do is convert a point in 3D space to a point in 2D space (in this case my screen).
I was thinking of creating a vector from the point where the 4 viewport edges meets behind the camera, to the point in 3D, and detect the intersection point in the nearclipping plane. But from there, im lost. I also know that the nearclipping plane can be both infront of the camera and behind.
Any one got any good ideas ?
Check this thread: http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showthread.php?t=82620
Might find some ideas there.
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thats not it... thats somthing diferent.
Can't you just use the projection matrix for that? That's what the graphics card does, after all, to map 3d points to the final 2d image.
All the buzzt!
CornedBee
"There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code."
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humm... i se what you meen, but dont really have the maths for it =P
gonna try and look it up.
It's multiplying the vector with a single matrix. If you don't have the maths for that then, I'm sorry to say, you have no business in 3d graphics.
All the buzzt!
"There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code."
- Flon's Law
D3DX has a function called D3DXProject() which projects a 3D vector from 3D space to 2D screen space. To do a type of targeting system for a HUD you would project the corners of your bounding volume into 2D space and then when you finally have the 2D values, you can determine which ones are most appropriate for display.
The OpenGL equiv to D3DXProject would be gluProject, if you're using OpenGL.
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I know how to do that... it was just that i had no idea about this matrix.Originally Posted by CornedBee
Been studying 3d programming for 2 weeks now. Befor that, ive been studying Lin.Algebra and 3d maths for 4weeks (this is all in school).
My maths is quite ok ( still working on it )
What are you using to render to the screen? OpenGL, DX, SDL, BananaCreamPie?
I figured it all out.
I use RenderWare as my middleware.
I made one with both renderware functions and then also with the matrix mult.
