I am trying to run OpenGL in "pseudo" landscape mode. By pseudo, I mean there is no software hook to tell API I am running landscape mode in Open GL.

So, lurking through forums. I found this trick to add to my EAGLView.m code for a pseudo landscape mode in open GL.

// Setup view matrix for landscape view
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();

glTranslatef(160.0f, 240.0f, 0.0f );
glRotatef(270.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
glScalef(1.0, -1.0, 1.0);


This appears to work. -BUT- my sprites are rendering with some mirrored feature.

The sprites are all facing left. Like their pixels where flipped. Cool effect. But I don't want it. I am using the sprite sheet code form 71squared tutorials.

Anyone know if I stumbled onto a feature or did I setup my open GL landscape mode wrong?

thanks.

Did you try changing the glScalef in your snippet for landscape to maybe glScalef(1.0, 1.0, 1.0); ? [edit] hehe... don't do glScalef(1.0, 1.0, 1.0); though since that is a waste. Just delete or comment out the line instead ... silly me.[/edit] I always get confused about which way things are oriented with landscape , but a -1 scaling is suspect when you're dealing with an unexpected mirroring issue.

Indeed, glScalef(1.0, -1.0, 1.0) will mirror on the Y axis. glScalef(1.0, 1.0, 1.0) is a no-op, though.

LOL!!! I can't believe I missed that.

I was just focused on getting rid of the -1 and didn't even think about scaling to 1. How funny!

I commented out the glScalef line of code:
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();

glTranslatef(160.0f, 240.0f, 0.0f );
glRotatef(270.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
//glScalef(1.0, -1.0, 1.0);

I saw a blank screen. Nothing was rendered.

Is there a better way of doing this or do I infact need the glRotatef for a landscape right effect?

thanks.

Hmm... That doesn't really make much sense to me ATM. Do you have culling enabled or something? I can't envision what's going on.

For clarity, here is my render scene snapshot, EAGLView.m

- (void)renderScene {

// If OpenGL has not yet been initialised then go and initialise it
if(!glInitialised) {
[self initOpenGL];
}

//Set up OpenGL projection matrix

// Setup view matrix for landscape view
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();

// normal code
glTranslatef(160.0f, 240.0f, 0.0f );
glRotatef(270.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
glScalef(1.0, -1.0, 1.0);


[EAGLContext setCurrentContext:context];
glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, viewFramebuffer);
glViewport(0, 0, screenBounds.size.width , screenBounds.size.height);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);

//Render the game Scene
[tile0 renderAtPoint:CGPointMake(240,160) centerOfImage:YES];

glBindRenderbufferOES(GL_RENDERBUFFER_OES, viewRenderbuffer);
[context presentRenderbuffer:GL_RENDERBUFFER_OES];
}

Any ideas????

thanks.