matrices....

[miko]

i'v got a code like this:

GLfloat m[16];
int i;

glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();

printf("\n before >> \n");

glGetFloatv(GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, m);
for(i=0;i<16;i++) {
if(i % 4 == 0) printf("\n");
printf("%5.5f ",m[i]);
}
glRotatef(90,1,0,0);
printf("\n after >> \n");
glGetFloatv(GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, m);
for(i=0;i<16;i++) {
if(i % 4 == 0) printf("\n");
printf("%5.5f ",m[i]);
}as you probably see, it loads an identity matrix and then rotates it by 90deg around x-axis... a this is output of my lovely program

before >>

1.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
0.00000 1.00000 0.00000 0.00000
0.00000 0.00000 1.00000 0.00000
0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000
after >>

nan nan nan nan
0.00000 -0.00000 1.00000 0.00000
0.00000 -1.00000 -0.00000 0.00000
0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000what the hell nans do there ? plz... if you have ANY suggestion let me know ;-)

[dorbie]

nan is "not a number", basically it's a bogus value as a result of bogus math.

Try using floats in your rotatef call, instead of ints i.e. 1.0f instead of 1, 90.0f instead of 90, 0.0f instead of 0 etc. The only thing that looks suspicious is the potential for badness due to non explicit casts here especially in C.

[miko]

that's not a problem (i even tried glRotatef((float)90.0, (float)1.0, (float)0.0, (float)0.0) and similar crazy attempts). it's larger program which suddenly stopped working... after 4 hours of useless printf()ing i found that. but i just noticed a strange thing. on first call it works well. on subsequent calsl it outputs ugly nans. i think it's caused by some screwed gl state (but i don't have a clue what kind of state could cause this)) and obviously it could be caused by unitialized pointer...

[Relic]

The code you gave should just work.
Stray pointers aside, if the error happens in a bigger program, make sure your matrices don't degenerate due to floating point errors accumulating over matrix concatenations.

For example if you do something like this

for (hours)
{
glClear()
glRotatef(1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
draw();
}

your modelview matrix will sum up rounding errors and you geometry will be skewed and/or moving off the screen.

Always recalculate your matrices from given parameters like angles.

[miko]

yeah..... another five hours wasted and pointers pointing to hell rulez! i thought i was related to gl because my code never segfaulted or did something like such pointers usually do. yeah, i's working now and i'm jumping aroung and having fun!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D