On Friday 25 March 2016 08:06:36 Adrián Chaves Fernández wrote: > I am working on a game engine with a top-down view where X represents > North-South, Y represents West-East, and Z is the height (so, Y and Z are > switched, regarding the OpenGL standard). > > So far I have been successfully using a perspective projection (with some > help > <https://forum.qt.io/topic/65277/top-down-view-nothing-visible-with-qcamera-> > at-0-1000-0-everything-visible-at-0-1000-0-01>), but I would like to switch > to an orthographic projection. > > However, I have no idea how to do so. This is what I got so far, but it is > not working as I expect: > > cameraEntity->setUpVector(QVector3D(0, 1, 0)); > cameraEntity->setViewCenter(QVector3D(0, 0, 0)); > cameraEntity->setPosition(QVector3D(0.0f, 0.0f, 5.0f)); > // cameraEntity->lens()->setPerspectiveProjection(60.0f, 16.0f / 9.0f, > 2.0f, -1.0f); > cameraEntity->lens()->setOrthographicProjection(-10.0f, 10.0f, -10.0f, > 10.0f, 2.0f, -1.0f); > > Is the Y-Z switch the issue here, or is it something else? If the Y-Z > switch is the issue, is there a way to handle it, or do I need to go back > to the OpenGL standard?
The camera lens just constructs the view volume. In this case a cuboid from -10 to +10 in x and y but your near plane and far plane values look strange (2.0f and -1.0f). Try setting these to something like 0.01 and 20.0 to give you a viewing volume that is (almost) a cube. This defines the volume of space relative to your camera that will get rendered. Then, consider where you camera is positioned and in which direction it is oriented. Do you want to be looking down on the X-Z plane or something else? In such situations, do yourself a favour, and draw a picture on a piece of paper with the setup you are after. Otherwise it is so easy to get numbers or directions transposed in your head and end up using trial and error which usually ends up being fragile. Cheers, Sean -- Dr Sean Harmer | sean.har...@kdab.com | Managing Director UK Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company Tel. UK +44 (0)1625 809908, Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090 KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
