setting up camera/viewing/perspective correctly

[IMK123]

Hello,
First POST here and new to OpenGL so please be gentle with me.

What I want to do is to plot three lines that are NOT rotated and at 90 degress to each other so as you may guess I can only see to of the but that is fine as I will do the rotation of the line at a later time. But what I am trying to do is to setup a viewing/camera angle so I can see all three, the snippet below is the product of much trial and error and little understanding so can someone help me please with a how to setup camera/viewing/perspective some the vector are plotted in the centre of viewport and can be seen correctly.

Many thanks in advance IMK


void COGLPLOT_1View::OnSize(UINT nType, int cx, int cy)
{
CView::OnSize(nType, cx, cy);

if(cy > 0)
{
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
glViewport(0, 0, cx , cy );

gluPerspective( 45.0f, (GLdouble)cx/cy , 1.0, 100 );
gluLookAt( 3, 3, 5 , 1 , 1 , -2.5 , 0.0 , 1.0 , 0.0 );

glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
}
}
void COGLPLOT_1View:rawAccelerometerOrientation( double X, double Y, double Z )
{
float Axis_wAngleX = (float)X;
float Axis_wAngleY = (float)Y;
float Axis_wAngleZ = (float)Z;

glPushMatrix();

glTranslatef( 0.0f, 0.0f, -m_fRadius);
glRotatef(Axis_wAngleX, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
glRotatef(Axis_wAngleY, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0);
glRotatef(Axis_wAngleZ, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);


glEnable( GL_POINT_SMOOTH );

glLineWidth( 5.0 );

glBegin(GL_LINES);

// Plot the Accelerometer X Axis
glColor3f( 1.0,0.0,0.0);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f(0.0f, 0.0f, -3.0f);

// Plot the Accelerometer Y Axis
glColor3f(0.9f,1.0,0.0);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f(-3.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);

// Plot the Accelerometer Z Axis
glColor3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); // Green
glVertex3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f); glVertex3f(0.0f, -3.0f, 0.0f);

glEnd();
glPopMatrix();
}

[Budric]

First, I believe you should call
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
before calling gluLookAt(). Since all it does is call glMultMatrixf and glTranslate according to:
http://www.opengl.org/documentation/...lu/lookat.html
In your case you're multiplying the projection matrix, where you really want to multiply the modelview matrix.

[IMK123]

Budric many thanks for you input I have done as your post and it has made no difference to what is now on the screen. I have something working but I must say it is more by trial and error than any kind of understanding. Do you know of a good tutorial on the web, one that is more practical.. Basically how you do stuff rather than the theory behind it all as I have enough on trying to figure out the accelerometer data that I want to plot.

Again many thanks IMK

void COGLPLOT_1View::OnSize(UINT nType, int cx, int cy)
{
CView::OnSize(nType, cx, cy);

if(cy > 0)
{
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
glViewport(0, 0, cx , cy );

glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
gluPerspective( 30.0f, (GLdouble)cx/cy , 1.0, 100 );
gluLookAt( 10, 5, 5 , 1 , 0.75 , -5.5 , 0.0 , 1.0 , 0.0 );
//glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
}
}