 Programming Glut (lesson 2), Drawing 2D objects |
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 Apr 29 2007, 06:49 PM
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This is the second of the six from astahost, again, I hope you enjoy.
 QUOTE This is the second lesson in my series of tutorials on how to use GLUT to create graphics. In this tutorial I am going to be teaching you how to create different types of polygons. I am going to be adding on to last tutorial's code and will leave the notes in to help you remember what all the function are. I will also be noting the new functions that we will be using and how to use them.
CODE #include<glut.h>//Include the GLUT functions This time we are going to not only set the background color, but set the area that we are viewing as well. gluOrtho2D(); sets left, right, bottom, and top borders of the viewing area, in this case we are viewing 5 units to the left, right, down, and up. CODE void init() { glClearColor(0,0,0,0);//Define our background color gluOrtho2D(-5,5,-5,5);//(NEW) Define our viewing area } We are now going to draw our polygons using the function glBegin and glEnd. All the verteces defined between these two functions will be drawn using the rules given in the glBegin function. The rules that can be used can be found at the end of this tutorial. glColor3f(); changes the colors of objects, any verteces following this function will be changed to the color defined. The colors are defined just as they are in glClearColor(); glVertex2f(); defines a 2D vertex as an (x, y) vertex. We will use this function to define our polygons. In the next function we will create three polygons, a triangle, square, and pentagon. Each polygon will have it's own color. CODE void display() { glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);//Clear the screen glColor3f(1,0,0);//Change the object color to red glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);//Start drawing a triangle glVertex2f(3,-4);//draw our first coordinate glVertex2f(3.5,-3);//Our second coordinate glVertex2f(4,-4);//Our last coordinate glEnd();//Stop drawing triangles glColor3f(0,1,0);//Change the object colors to green glBegin(GL_QUADS);//Start drawing quads glVertex2f(-4,-4);//first coordinate glVertex2f(-4,-2);//second coordinate glColor3f(0,0,1);//Change the color to blue halfway through to create a neat color effect glVertex2f(-2,-2);//third coordinate (now blue) glVertex2f(-2,-4);//last coordinate glEnd();//Stop drawing quads glColor3f(1,0,0);//Change color to red glBegin(GL_POLYGON);//Start drawing a polygon glVertex2f(-2,2);//first vertex glColor3f(0,1,0);//Change color to green glVertex2f(-1,3);//second vertex glColor3f(0,0,1);//Change color to blue glVertex2f(0,2);//third vertex glColor3f(1,0,1);//Change color to purple glVertex2f(-0.5,0);//fourth vertex glColor3f(1,1,0);//Change color to yellow glVertex2f(-1.5,0);//last vertex glEnd();//Stop drawing our polygon glFlush();//Draw everything to the screen glutPostRedisplay();//Start drawing again } Now we finish the code off with our main function again. CODE void main(int argc, char ** argv) { glutInit(&argc, argv);//Initialize GLUT glutInitWindowSize(800,600);//define the window size glutInitWindowPosition(10,50);//Position the window glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_SINGLE|GLUT_RGB);//Define the drawing mode glutCreateWindow("Lesson 2");//Create our window init();//initialize our variables glutDisplayFunc(display);//tell Glut what our display function is glutMainLoop();//Keep the program running } As you can see there are many different modes for the function "glBegin()". The modes that can be used and what they are used for are listed below. GL_POINTS This is used to just draw points, instead of polygons or lines. You only need to define one vertex to see a point GL_LINES -- This mode lets you draw lines. You need to define 2 verteces at a time. GL_LINE_LOOP -- This mode creates a loop of lines. You define the verteces much like GL_POLYGON and when you finish it will link the last and first two verteces together with a line. GL_LINE_STRIP -- This mode does the same as GL_LINE_LOOP except it does not connect the first and second lines GL_TRIANGLES -- This mode creates triangles and takes 3 verteces at a time GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP -- This mode creates a strip of triangles. The second triangle uses 2 verteces of the first, and you just define the last vertex of the next triangle GL_TRIANGLE_FAN -- This function creates a fan of triangles. All the triangles use one same point and 1 point from the triangle before them, you define the last vertex GL_QUADS -- This creates quadrilaterals and take 4 verteces at a time GL_QUAD_STRIP -- This mode creates a strip of quadrilaterals. After the first quad, it uses 2 verteces from the preveious quad then you define the other 2 GL_POLYGON -- This mode lets you create a polygon will n verteces I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and found it helpful. Many more are on their way. Again go ahead and fiddle with the settings and modes, you can learn alot more from playing with the code then just reading it. Editted on December 18, 2006 to make it more readable |
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