shadow volumes

[Poons]

i´m implementing shadow volumes. but the problem is the shadows don´t appear.

first i create the shadow volume which is stored in dList.

Insel is my terrain on which the shadow should appear.

then i use the following code snippet to render the scence.

does anybody know what i´m making wrong?


glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT | GL_STENCIL_BUFFER_BIT);

Insel->configRendering();
Insel->render();
Insel->recoverContext();

//glColorMask(GL_FALSE,GL_FALSE,GL_FALSE,GL_FALSE);
//glDepthMask(GL_FALSE);

glEnable(GL_STENCIL_TEST);
//glDepthMask(GL_FALSE);
glStencilFunc(GL_ALWAYS,0,0);

glStencilOp(GL_KEEP,GL_KEEP,GL_INCR);
glCullFace(GL_BACK);
glCallList(dList);

glStencilOp(GL_KEEP,GL_KEEP,GL_DECR);
glCullFace(GL_FRONT);
glCallList(dList);

glDepthMask(GL_TRUE);
glColorMask(GL_TRUE,GL_TRUE,GL_TRUE,GL_TRUE);
//glCullFace(GL_BACK);
glDepthFunc(GL_LESS);
glStencilOp(GL_KEEP,GL_KEEP,GL_KEEP);

//glStencilFunc(GL_EQUAL,1,1);
glDisable(GL_LIGHTING);

/*
glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
glVertexPointer(3,GL_FLOAT,0,Insel->terrainData);
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glColor3f(0.0f,0.0f,0.0f);
for (int i=0;i<Insel->width-1;i++)
{
glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP,Insel->width*2,GL_UNSIGNED_INT,Insel->indexes+i*Insel->width*2);
}
glDisableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
Insel->configRendering();
Insel->render();
Insel->recoverContext();*/

glStencilFunc(GL_EQUAL,0,1);

Insel->configRendering();
Insel->render();
Insel->recoverContext();

glDepthFunc(GL_LESS);
glDisable(GL_STENCIL_TEST);

i`m glad about every suggestion!

Poons

[dorbie]

You should disable depth and color writes when drawing the stencil volume (you have the right calls there but it's commented out). If you don't disable depth writes on the volume the second terrain pass and parts of your stencil volume rendering will fail the depth test. By definition all fragments inside the shadow volume would fail the depth test and no shadowing will occur.

Apart from that it looks OK, but I just skimmed.

[This message has been edited by dorbie (edited 05-08-2003).]

[Poons]

i have commented it out to see if the shadow volume is correct. i have forgotten to comment it in but when i disable it, the shadow does not appear.

thanks, for looking over the code.

Poons