Only one block in chunk being drawn when using textures

[Longor1996]

If you wan't to give every cube it's own texture, you have to use glBegin/glEnd inside the nested loop.
And this will give you very big performance drops!

As I said: Use a texture atlas! Then you have to bind the atlas only once right before drawing the chunks and that's it.

- Longor1996

[steg90]

Can this be done even when using displaylists?

Thanks,
Steve

[Longor1996]

Can this be done even when using displaylists?

Thanks,
Steve

Yes. You just have to bind an texture atlas,
and then specify the texture coordinates per face in a way that only a defined portion af the atlas is visible.

Say, you atlas contains 4 textures, and has a power-of-two size of 32x32.
Then the code to use only the texture in the top left corner of the atlas is:

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glTexCoord(0,0); glVertex(0,0); glTexCoord(0.5,0); glVertex(1,0); glTexCoord(0.5,0.5); glVertex(1,1); glTexCoord(0,0.5); glVertex(0,1);

- Longor1996

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[steg90]

Many thanks again @Longor1996, learning so much from you!

[Longor1996]

Im always happy to help!

Oh, and there is a lot more of things that you can do to optimize your voxel-engine.
But some of them are invented by myself and therefore secret!

- Longor1996

[steg90]

Thanks @Longor1996

Well, once I get more done to it I will look at optimising ;-)

[Vermeer]

Hi steg,

Hope your project is going well. I posted my entire code in my thread, it uses a texture atlas 16x16 sprites

It's 512 x512 texture,  so 1/16 = 0.0625 for each offset texture. Gives you quite a few block to play with. For grass, the offsets are just changed so you can draw the sides an top differently. See -- GrassBlock !

[Riven]

This forum is not a chat room.

[steg90]

Ok, sorry about that.

Think I've worked out texture atlas.

I've got a texture atlas of 1024x1024, textures are 64x64.

So, that is 1024 / 64 = 16 textures wide

1024 / 64 = 16 textures high

Then I just do 1 / 16 to give texture  x-coordinate (i.e. 0.0625f )
and this is the same for texture y-coordinate.

So, to get 4th texture, I use this:

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GL11.glTexCoord2f(4.0f * 0.0625f, 1 * 0.0625f); GL11.glVertex3f(-0.1f, 0.1f, -0.1f);   // Top Left Of The Texture and Quad GL11.glTexCoord2f(4.0f * 0.0625f, 0.0f * 0.0625f); GL11.glVertex3f(-0.1f, 0.1f, 0.1f);   // Bottom Left Of The Texture and Quad GL11.glTexCoord2f(5 * 0.0625f, 0.0f * 0.0625f); GL11.glVertex3f( 0.1f, 0.1f, 0.1f);   // Bottom Right Of The Texture and Quad GL11.glTexCoord2f(5 * 0.0625f, 1 * 0.0625f); GL11.glVertex3f( 0.1f, 0.1f, -0.1f);   // Top Right Of The Texture and Quad

Hope this may help somebody?!

Thanks,
Steve

[steg90]

@Vermeer,

It is going slowly, lol, been busy working.

Thanks with regards to textures, worked it out now, going to use atlas so only one texture bind.

Will have a look at your code if I get chance, although I do enjoy trying to work things out - oh and the help on these forums is invaluable!

It is great to see so many people working on these cube worlds, sure has given me an insight into using OpenGL.  Thanks everyone!

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[Vermeer]

I do enjoy trying to work things out - oh and the help on these forums is invaluable!

It is great to see so many people working on these cube worlds, sure has given me an insight into using OpenGL.  Thanks everyone!

Yes the fun is figuring it out, you learn it that way. But sometimes it can be frustrating when it just won't work. This forum is so helpful and inspiring when things just won't work how you want.  I agree thanks everyone!

[Riven]

This forum is not a chat room.

Why don't you guys exchange email addresses, instead of accounting for about a quarter of JGO postings.