Hi you 3d gurus.
Please give me a tip!
If you have a point with coordinates given in the View Coordinate System, how do you translate it to a point on the screen?
The point is given by x,y,z in the view coordinate system (vcs). (x is horizontal, y is vertical, and z is distance stright forward from your eye.)
To obtain where to render the point at the screen, I could do something like this:
iScreenX = (400*vcs.x)/vcs.z;
iScreenY = (400*vcs.y)/vcs.z;
The problem is that this only works for z values grather than 0.
if(vcs.z <= 0)
IHaveAProblem();
Ofcorse, a point with negative (or zero) z- value shold not be shown, however, a polygon might be visible even though one of its vertexes has a negative z- value. Havent found any good solution. So far, I just dont paint the polygon at all if I find a negative or zero z.
I also tried using the distance, and not the z- value as the divisor:
double dDivisor;
dDivisor = Math.sqrt(vcs.x*vcs.x +vcs.y*vcs.y +vcs.z*vcs.z);
iScreenX = (400*vcs.x) / dDivisor;
iScreenY = (400*vcs.y) / dDivisor;
This is ok for all points not beeing positioned in the middle of your eye (givig dDivisor=0), but it gives a fisheye like view of the world, and thats not exactly what I want.
I want something close to the first solution, but that also works on negative and 0 z values.
Anybody knows?
This is my 3d engine:
http://blake.prohosting.com/ragnvald/
";-)
Ragnvald Barth
Software engineer