OpenGL, where on screen will a point be?

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Hi,

i’d like to calculate the Xs- and Ys-coordinates on the screen
where a point in 3D (x, y, z) will be drawn if i’d draw it with
certain camera settings.

So i’d like to calculate or find out some other way what OpenGL
does internally, the conversion from (x, y, z) to (Xs, Ys).

Best regards,
Torsten.

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Torsten Mohr wrote:

Hi,

i’d like to calculate the Xs- and Ys-coordinates on the screen
where a point in 3D (x, y, z) will be drawn if i’d draw it with
certain camera settings.

So i’d like to calculate or find out some other way what OpenGL
does internally, the conversion from (x, y, z) to (Xs, Ys).

You can use gluProject().

Stephane

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Take a look at the gluProject function.On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 05:04:25PM +0200, Torsten Mohr wrote:

Hi,

i’d like to calculate the Xs- and Ys-coordinates on the screen
where a point in 3D (x, y, z) will be drawn if i’d draw it with
certain camera settings.

So i’d like to calculate or find out some other way what OpenGL
does internally, the conversion from (x, y, z) to (Xs, Ys).

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Hi Torsten.

this i think is not an SDL issue, but an OpenGL one.
for me the following Code worked:-

GLdouble projMat[16], modMat[16], viewPort[4]

glGetDoublev(GL_PROJECTION_MATRIX, projMat);
glGetDoublev(GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, modMat);
glGetIntegerv(GL_VIEWPORT, viewPort);

  GLdouble projectPos[3];
  gluProject(x,
             y,
             z,
             modMat,
             projMat,
             viewPort,
             projectPos,
             projectPos+1,
             projectPos+2);

now in projectPos there is your X-value
in porjectPos+1 there is the Y value,
and in projectPos+2 there should be the distance to the screen,
althought this never really worked for me :frowning:

i hope, this helps you

greetings
Benjamin

Torsten Mohr wrote:

Hi,

i’d like to calculate the Xs- and Ys-coordinates on the screen
where a point in 3D (x, y, z) will be drawn if i’d draw it with
certain camera settings.

So i’d like to calculate or find out some other way what OpenGL
does internally, the conversion from (x, y, z) to (Xs, Ys).

Best regards, Torsten.

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