Hi

I've been playing with the sample code from Aaron Fothergill's chapter in the iPhone games book to draw sprites on the screen. It has sample code for some 2d drawing functions in Texture2d.m

I want to add some none sprite drawing functions to the code so i added a function:

Which i'd hope take the coordinates given a draw a rectangle with a horizontal fade.

It doesn't, i call the function once to draw a red faded rectangle in the bottom left but it seems to draw lots of non-visible rectangles everywhere. I say nonvisible as elsewhere on the screen other solid colour test spites have become graduated.

Any ideas whats gone wrong? or do you need more information?

cheers

tony

tonyb Wrote:

Code:

void DrawHFadeRectangle(GLubyte p_r1, GLubyte p_g1, GLubyte p_b1,
                        GLubyte p_r2, GLubyte p_g2, GLubyte p_b2,
                        float p_x1,float p_y1,float p_z,
                        float p_x2,float p_y2)
{
    glPushMatrix();
    
    GLfloat squareVertices[] = {
        p_x1,p_y1,p_z,
        p_x1,p_y2,p_z,
        p_x2,p_y2,p_z,
        p_x2,p_y1,p_z
    };
    
    GLubyte squareColors[] = {
        p_r1, p_g1, p_b1, 255,
        p_r1, p_g1, p_b1, 255,
        p_r2, p_g2, p_b2, 255,
        p_r2, p_g2, p_b2, 255,
    };
    
    glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, 0, squareVertices);
    glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
    glColorPointer(4, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, 0, squareColors);
    glEnableClientState(GL_COLOR_ARRAY);
    glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4);
    
    glPopMatrix();
}

Which i'd hope take the coordinates given a draw a rectangle with a horizontal fade.

It doesn't, i call the function once to draw a red faded rectangle in the bottom left but it seems to draw lots of non-visible rectangles everywhere. I say nonvisible as elsewhere on the screen other solid colour test spites have become graduated.

Are your vertices out of order? They look to be, assuming CCW winding with triangle strips. Try swapping vert 3 and 4 like so:

Many thanks, that did the trick for drawing the rectangle, but it still appears only black. Even if for experimentation purposes i set all the values to be 255. Am I missing a setting somewhere? i'm comparing against the OpenGL template project code and for my untrained opengl i'm not seeing anything different in the view code...

thanks again in advance

tony

managed to figure it out now,

I needed a glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); and the corresponding enable after the rectangle code

tony