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Starting with OpenGL, need some help - wsc981 - Jul 16, 2010 04:43 AM
Hi all, I just registered to this forum since I'm getting serious about developing a game and learning OpenGL. I'm following the tutorials from this blog while simultaneously starting on a game with very basic OpenGL functionality. At home I've also got the RedBook, but I intend to read more into it at a later point, once I know the basics.
I stumbled upon a problem and I could use some help. For my personal project I use Apple's OpenGL template. In the ES2Renderer class I've created a figure and now I'm trying to set the 'camera'. In order to set the camera I've added the glFrustum function, see the following code:
Code:
...
[EAGLContext setCurrentContext:context];
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, defaultFramebuffer);
glViewport(0, 0, backingWidth, backingHeight);
glFrustumf(0.0, 200.0, 0.0, 200.0, 0.01, 1000.0); // this is causing an error
glClearColor(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f, 1.0f);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
...I get the following warning for the glFrustumf function: implicit declaration of function 'glFrustumf'. The warning doesn't make sense to me, since I believe the required header that contains the function should already be imported as part of the ES2Renderer class - the function should be part of gl.h, right?. When I comment out the line containing the glFrustumf function the code works just fine. Anyone have any idea what's going wrong here?
RE: Starting with OpenGL, need some help - sealfin - Jul 16, 2010 05:51 AM
I believe that should be glFrustum(), not glFrustumf()
Edit: yeah, I'm: 1) wrong; 2) far too trusting of the documentation
RE: Starting with OpenGL, need some help - wsc981 - Jul 16, 2010 06:18 AM
I realize I've posted my question in the wrong subforum. Could some admin move this thread to the 2d / 3d graphics subforum?
Also, glFrustumf() should be correct, it's also color coded like any correct function is. It just seems to be missing somehow. I'm developing for the iPhone / iPad btw, perhaps my issue got something to do with this?
Edit: I think I figured out the issue. It seems glFrustumf() is a function that can only be used in OpenGL ES 1.x. I guess in OpenGL ES 2.0 I need shaders or some other method to achieve my goal, anyone got some suggestions?
RE: Starting with OpenGL, need some help - Oddity007 - Jul 16, 2010 07:15 AM
I believe all matrix related things in ES 2 were removed.
RE: Starting with OpenGL, need some help - ThemsAllTook - Jul 16, 2010 09:17 AM
Yes, you'll need to do all your own matrix math under ES2. This might help: http://sacredsoftware.net/tutorials/Matrices/Matrices.xhtml
RE: Starting with OpenGL, need some help - wsc981 - Jul 17, 2010 06:28 AM
(Jul 16, 2010 09:17 AM)ThemsAllTook Wrote: Yes, you'll need to do all your own matrix math under ES2. This might help: http://sacredsoftware.net/tutorials/Matrices/Matrices.xhtml
Thanks for the link, but after globally reading through the page I figured it might be a better idea to just start out with OpenGL ES 1.x before moving to OpenGL ES 2.0. It seems to me OpenGL ES 2.0 is quite a bit more complex, it doesn't seem a good introduction for a beginner.