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Drawing 2D on a GLSurfaceView

I am attempting to draw a 2D square on a GLSurfaceView in 2D mode. I can draw the object in 3D mode and have tested that the square is out in 3D space. I then try to configure the matrix for 2d drawing and when I attempt to draw my object nothing appears.
My GLSurfaceView instance implements GLSurfaceView.Renderer.
I've broken the setup into two functions:
private void prepare3Ddrawing(GL10 gl)
{
gl.glLoadIdentity();
gl.glViewport(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
gl.glDisable(GL10.GL_DITHER);
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_DEPTH_TEST);
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_CULL_FACE);
gl.glMatrixMode(GL10.GL_PROJECTION);
gl.glLoadIdentity();
GLU.gluPerspective(gl, 45.0f, (float)getWidth()/(float)getHeight(),0.1f,100.0f);
}
private void prepare2Ddrawing(GL10 gl)
{
gl.glDisable(GL10.GL_CULL_FACE);
gl.glDisable(GL10.GL_DEPTH_TEST);
gl.glMatrixMode(GL10.GL_PROJECTION);
gl.glLoadIdentity();
GLU.gluOrtho2D(gl,0,getWidth(), 0, getHeight());
gl.glScalef(1, -1, 1);
gl.glTranslatef(0, -getHeight(), 0);
gl.glMatrixMode(GL10.GL_MODELVIEW);
}
And here is my draw method...
public void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl)
{
gl.glClear(GL10.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT|GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
prepare3Ddrawing(gl);
camera.draw(gl);
go2d.draw(gl);
prepare2Ddrawing(gl);
go2d.draw(gl);
}
and finally, my go2d object is an instance of an object I created called GameObject2d. It's draw method looks like this...
#Override
public void draw(GL10 gl)
{
super.draw(gl);
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_ALPHA_TEST);
gl.glAlphaFunc(GL10.GL_GREATER, 0.0f);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
gl.glTexCoordPointer(2,GL10.GL_FLOAT,0,textureBuffer);
gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, textureID);
gl.glBlendFunc(GL10.GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL10.GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_BLEND);
gl.glFrontFace(GL10.GL_CW);
//gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_CULL_FACE);
gl.glCullFace(GL10.GL_BACK);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glVertexPointer(3, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, vertexBuffer);
gl.glDrawElements(GL10.GL_TRIANGLES, 6, GL10.GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, indexBuffer);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
gl.glDisable(GL10.GL_CULL_FACE);
gl.glDisable(GL10.GL_ALPHA_TEST);
gl.glDisable(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
}
Does anyone have any ideas? Again, I am still able to see the 3D rendered version of the go2D object, but I do not see the 2D version.
Thanks.

As you don't include any data, I can only propose two methods to debug the issue.
Step 1: try to force your 2d - perspective matrix and modelview matrix to be Identity Matrices. Then if you force your Square data vertices inside the clip space (e.g.
x,y = +-1 or x,y= +-0.75, z=0, you should see a square appearing in the screen.
Step 2: now that the data model is correct, check what your model view and perspective matrices do: multiply each of your square vertices (x,y,z, w=1) with ModelView Matrix * CameraMatrix * PerspectiveMatrix. What do you get? Are the x,y,z much outside |w| ?

How to set on texture on top of another texture in android using OPEN GL

I have been searching for this for the pass two days .I am developing an android game using Open GL in which there is a situation where i have to display two images at the same time, one should be the background image and second one is displayed depending on a condition.
I have displayed the background imgae using Open GL Texture property.But when i tried to display the second image by using texture first one is not displaying.Since i am dealing with multiple texture i have used a GLTexture class to manipulate the texture (http://tkcodesharing.blogspot.in/2008/05/working-with-textures-in-androids.html).Even then i am not able to display two images at the same time.
Here is some code :
public void onSurfaceCreated(GL10 gl, EGLConfig config) {
glTextures= new GLTextures(gl,this.context);//class to manipulate textures
//adding image resources
this.glTextures.add(R.drawable.back);
this.glTextures.add(R.drawable.hand);
//loading texture
this.glTextures.loadTextures();
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
...
}
In onDrawFrame
gl.glClear(GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT|GL10.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
gl.glLoadIdentity();
gl.glTranslatef(0.0f, 0.0f, -3.5f);
glTextures.setTexture(R.drawable.back);//it will bind this particular texture for drawing
draw(gl);
if(condition == 1){
gl.glLoadIdentity();
gl.glTranslatef(0.0f, 1.0f, -7.0f);
glTextures.setTexture(R.drawable.hand);
drawSecond(gl);
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
In draw code
public void draw(GL10 gl){
gl.glActiveTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE0);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
gl.glFrontFace(GL10.GL_CW);
gl.glVertexPointer(3, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, vertexBuffer);
gl.glTexCoordPointer(2, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, textureBuffer);
gl.glDrawArrays(GL10.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, vertices.length/3);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
}
public void drawSecond(GL10 gl){
gl.glActiveTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE1);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
//GLES20.glUniform1i(isShaked, 1);
gl.glFrontFace(GL10.GL_CW);
gl.glVertexPointer(3, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, vertexBuffer);
gl.glTexCoordPointer(2, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, textureBuffer);
gl.glDrawArrays(GL10.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, vertices.length/3);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
}

remove "gl.glActiveTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE0);" and gl.glActiveTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE1);
lines from the rendering code.
you use multiple texture units only if you need multi-texturing,
which is using multiple textures in one draw call.
just bind the first texture to the active texture unit (default to GL_TEXTURE0) and draw the first triangle strip, than bind the second texture (without changing the active texture unit GL_TEXTURE0) and draw the second triangle strip.

How to efficiently draw 2d with openGl es?

Originally I was using the canvas to draw my bitmaps in a 2d real time action type game, but for some reason my frame rate was terrible. I suspected it was the canvas so I switched to opengl. From surfing on the internet I learned to create a rectangle from 2 triangles and set a texture on it. I used glOrthof to set it up the 2d perspective and used the gltranslatef method to move my textures. I know the problem isn't the physics or anything because I tested moving a single texture at a constant velocity, (The x value moving at about 7 units per 33 milliseconds). It was still choppy. I set the fps to 30. This is my game loop:
public void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl) {
startTime = System.nanoTime();
gl.glClearColor(0f, .0f, .8f, 0.5f);
gl.glClear(GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL10.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
g.updatePhysics();
onDraw(gl);
sleepTime = (int) (TICKS_INTERVAL - (System.nanoTime() - startTime)/1000000);
if(sleepTime > 0){
try{
Thread.sleep(sleepTime);
}catch(Exception e){}
}
}
and this is how they're being drawn:
public void onDraw(GL10 gl){
gl.glLoadIdentity();
if(g.state == g.STATE_GAME){
gl.glTranslatef(x, y, z);
rectangle.draw(gl);
gl.glLoadIdentity();
gl.glTranslatef(x, y, z);
rectangle2.draw()gl;
}
}
And this is the draw method within the rectangle:
public void draw(GL10 gl){
gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, textures[0]);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
gl.glFrontFace(GL10.GL_CW);
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_BLEND);
gl.glBlendFunc(GL10.GL_ONE, GL10.GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
gl.glVertexPointer(3, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, vertBuff);
gl.glTexCoordPointer(2, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, textureBuff);
gl.glDrawElements(GL10.GL_TRIANGLES, pIndex.length, GL10.GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, pBuff);// Draw the vertices as triangle strip
//gl.glDrawArrays(GL10.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, vertices.length / 3);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
}
Even when I set the frame rate to 60 there's still some stuttering, and it's frustrating because for the past month I've been just trying to get the frame rate smooth. I'm testing on a galaxy s2 so I know it isn't the hardware. If all this code is right, do you think maybe it could be something else in the activity? My GLSurfaceView is actually a custom view. Even getting a single texture to move smoothly at a constant velocity would be nice.

OpenGL on Android - Texture Mapping - Only top left pixel visible on screen

I am trying to understand the concept of texture mapping. I tried to map a texture onto a square ( made up of 2 triangles ). However only the top left pixel of the image is rendered onto the square completely. Why does this happen? I have seen another post with the same issue .. but that solution doesnt work for me
Initial Setup
gl.glDisable(GL10.GL_DITHER); //Disable dithering ( NEW )
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D); //Enable Texture Mapping
gl.glShadeModel(GL10.GL_SMOOTH); //Enable Smooth Shading
gl.glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.5f); //Black Background
gl.glClearDepthf(1.0f); //Depth Buffer Setup
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_DEPTH_TEST); //Enables Depth Testing
gl.glDepthFunc(GL10.GL_LEQUAL); //The Type Of Depth Testing To Do
vertex coords -
private float[] _vertices = {0.0f, 0.0f,0.0f, 1.0f,
60.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f,
0.0f, 60.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f,
60.0f, 60.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f};
texture coords -
private float _texCoords[] = {0.0f, 1.0f,
1.0f, 1.0f,
0.0f, 0.0f,
1.0f, 0.0f };
Load texture method -
public void loadGLTexture(GL10 gl, Context context) {
//Get the texture from the Android resource directory
InputStream is = context.getResources().openRawResource(com.mhoapps.bugswatter.R.drawable.crate);
Bitmap bitmap = null;
try {
//BitmapFactory is an Android graphics utility for images
bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);
} finally {
//Always clear and close
try {
is.close();
is = null;
} catch (IOException e) {
}
}
// Generate one texture pointer...
gl.glGenTextures(1, _textures, 0);
int mTextureId = _textures[0];
// ...and bind it to our array
gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, mTextureId);
// Create Nearest Filtered Texture
gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,
GL10.GL_LINEAR);
gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,
GL10.GL_LINEAR);
// Use the Android GLUtils to specify a two-dimensional texture image
// from our bitmap
GLUtils.texImage2D(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, bitmap, 0); //Clean up
bitmap.recycle();
}
Finally the draw method
public void draw(GL10 gl) {
//Bind the texture according to the set texture filter
//gl.glLoadIdentity();
gl.glTranslatef(0.0f, 0.0f, -3.0f);
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, _textures[0]);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glVertexPointer(4, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, _currentVertexBuffer);
gl.glTexCoordPointer(2, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, _bugTexBuffer1);
gl.glDrawArrays(GL10.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
}

Are you specifying your texture coordinates? It sounds like you aren't, and they are just defaulting to (0, 0). Another options is the texture matrix - are you setting that to all zeroes?

How do I render textures on an Ortho projection in Android

Greetings. I've dabbled in OpenGL in the past and as far as I understood it the best way to do 2d games with sprite-based animation was eliminate the z plane and set up an orthographic projection so you can just use Cartesian coordinates for textures and drawing positions.
So I've been trying to implement this in android. I was just using all the build in draw functions but rendering a few hundred images separately with the vanilla drawbitmap functions was killing my framerate.
A rect shows up on the screen all right but the texture refuses to show. if you could take a look and let me know where I'm going wrong here I'd really appreciate it. Be warned I don;t have nearly as comprehensive understanding of opengl as I would like. I respect anyone that can wrap their heads around this stuff.
This is the sprite class which draws the rect with the bound texture:
public class Sprite {
private FloatBuffer vertexBuffer; // buffer holding the vertices
private FloatBuffer textureBuffer;
private int[] textures = new int[1];
private float vertices[] = {
0.0f, 0.0f,
0.0f, 32.0f,
32.0f, 0.0f,
32.0f, 32.0f
};
private float texture[] = {
0.0f, 0.0f,
0.0f, 16.0f,
16.0f, 0.0f,
16.0f, 16.0f
};
public Sprite() {
ByteBuffer byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(vertices.length * 4);
byteBuffer.order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder());
vertexBuffer = byteBuffer.asFloatBuffer();
vertexBuffer.put(vertices);
vertexBuffer.position(0);
byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(texture.length * 4);
byteBuffer.order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder());
textureBuffer = byteBuffer.asFloatBuffer();
textureBuffer.put(texture);
textureBuffer.position(0);
}
public void loadGLTexture(GL10 gl, Context context)
{
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
R.drawable.charactersprites);
gl.glGenTextures(1, textures, 0);
gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, textures[0]);
//Not sure if I need these...
//gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL10.GL_NEAREST);
//gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL10.GL_LINEAR);
GLUtils.texImage2D(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, bitmap, 0);
bitmap.recycle();
}
/** The draw method for the triangle with the GL context */
public void draw(GL10 gl) {
gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, textures[0]);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
//gl.glFrontFace(GL10.GL_CW);//is this necessary?
// set the colour for the triangle
//gl.glColor4f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.5f);
// Point to our vertex buffer
gl.glVertexPointer(2, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, vertexBuffer);
gl.glTexCoordPointer(2, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, textureBuffer);
// Draw the vertices as triangle strip
gl.glDrawArrays(GL10.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, vertices.length / 2);
//Disable the client state before leaving
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
}
}
And this is the renderer...i pass in the srfaceview to hold onto so i can get the height and width for the projection
public class GlRenderer implements Renderer {
private Sprite sprite;
private GLSurfaceView surfaceView;
private Context context;
/** Constructor to set the handed over context */
public GlRenderer(GLSurfaceView surfaceView, Context context) {
this.sprite = new Sprite();
this.surfaceView = surfaceView;
this.context = context;
}
#Override
public void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl) {
// clear Screen and Depth Buffer
gl.glClear(GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL10.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
gl.glMatrixMode(GL10.GL_PROJECTION);
// Reset the Modelview Matrix
gl.glLoadIdentity();
gl.glOrthof(0.0f, surfaceView.getWidth(), surfaceView.getHeight(), 0.0f, -1.0f, 1.0f);
sprite.draw(gl);
}
#Override
public void onSurfaceCreated(GL10 gl, EGLConfig config) {
sprite.loadGLTexture(gl, this.context);
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
gl.glShadeModel(GL10.GL_SMOOTH);
gl.glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.5f);
gl.glClearDepthf(1.0f);
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_DEPTH_TEST);
gl.glDepthFunc(GL10.GL_LEQUAL);
gl.glHint(GL10.GL_PERSPECTIVE_CORRECTION_HINT, GL10.GL_NICEST);
}
}

Have you tried
glActiveTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE0);
before rendering sprite?

Try setting the texture environment to GL_REPLACE (using glTexEnv). If it is set to GL_MODULATE, the texture color will be multiplied by the current color (or the color from lighting, if enabled) and if this color is black, the result is just black.

Below works on my Galaxy S but I'm having trouble getting it to work on my friend's HTC using projective. Though they do work in model space... Could you try?
public void draw(GL10 gl) {
gl.glActiveTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE0);
gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, mTextureID);
gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
gl.glTexCoordPointer(2, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, mCoordinateBuffer);
// Draw the mesh
gl.glFrontFace(GL10.GL_CCW);
gl.glVertexPointer(3, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, mVertexBuffer);
gl.glNormalPointer(GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, mNormalBuffer);
gl.glDrawElements(GL10.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, mIndexBuffer.limit(), GL10.GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, mIndexBuffer);
// Disable texture
gl.glDisable(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
}
public void loadTexture(Context context, GL10 gl) {
Bitmap bmp;
try {
bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(context.getResources().openRawResource(R.drawable.texture_loading));
int[] textures = new int[1];
gl.glGenTextures(1, textures, 0);
mTextureID = textures[0];
gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, mTextureID);
// Mendatory, tells openGL how to render the texture, nearest will look sharp, smooth will look blurry
gl.glTexParameterx(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL10.GL_NEAREST);
gl.glTexParameterx(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL10.GL_NEAREST);
// Not mendatory, tells openGL what to do when sprite is bigger than object
gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL10.GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
gl.glTexParameterf(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL10.GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
// Mendatory,
// GL_REPLACE replaces all color info,
// GL_MODULATE modulates, texture will be affected by lightning
gl.glTexEnvx(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_ENV, GL10.GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE, GL10.GL_REPLACE);
bmp.recycle();
} catch (Error e) {
}
}