Apps Drawing an image with OpenGL ES?

[cmh0114]

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to develop a game for Android, and I need to know how to draw an image onscreen using OpenGL - an image that I access from the resources, not created within the program. Any tips?

Thanks.

 

[DiCon]

I'm not sure, if there is a way to directly copy some kind of image buffer into the active frame buffer, but if you want to manipulate your image (translating, scaling, rotating, placing it according to the z-buffer, etc.) you will want to go the usual way:
Create two triangles forming a rectangle and apply your image as a texture - For example using the Bitmap class and GLUtils.texImage2D(...).

Additionally, if you do not want to add a perspective, you should use gluOrtho2D(...) as your projection matrix.

Now, if you want some code or more details on one of these steps, just ask for it - It's just a very general answer to a very general question

 

[cmh0114]

That's what I'm interested in - how do I apply an image to a texture to the triangles? And how do I use the gluOrtho2D() method?

 

[DiCon]

ok, so I can probably assume, that you are pretty new to OpenGL. In this case, I would recommend the NeHe tutorials that have been ported for Android (since OpenGL != OpenGL ES) -> INsanityDesign NeHe Android Ports

If you already have an OpenGL environment running with your triangles already rendering, but without textures, you can skip to "Lesson 06". Set "gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D)" and have a look at loadGLTexture(...) from the cube-class in this lesson.

The gluOrtho2D just sets up a projection matrix with an orthographic projection. With this projection you can easily do 2D graphics in OpenGL as the z-coordinate does not affect the size of your graphics. gluOrtho2D is just like gluPerspective but "without depth".

 

[obviam]

I have put up a tutorial describing exactly that.
How to draw images with opengl.
It explains triangle strips, how to create a square and how to create a texture from an image and how to bind it.
You can find the article here.

Good luck!

 

[jonbonazza]

Depending on the complexity, you could just use glTexImage2D()... this can be kind of slow tho.