my vertex arrays code! what is wrong here?

hi… i asked about vertex arrays a day ago, now i can see sum polys on the screen, but its all messed up! im putting my main vertex array code here… can anyone help me out to find whats wrong? i guess its my indices calculation, but right now i have no idea how to fix! anyone have any idea?
thanks in advance!

heres the code:

float *VertexArray;
float *IndicesArray;
int mapWidth=256;
int mapHeight=256;

void setup()
{
// vertex array: size of map * 3 (3 elements makes a vertex: x, y , z)
VertexArray = new float [mapWidth * mapHeight * 3];

// indices array: size of map * 4 (im drawing quads, so its 4 indexes to 4
vertices that makes a quad, right?)
IndexArray = new unsigned int [mapWidth * mapHeight * 4];
}

/* generate terrain’s vertices&indices… get each pixel and calculate the
height at that point and save it in the VertexArray */

void generate_landscape()
{
int index_array=0;

//
// Generate terrain’s vertices
//
for(int tileZ = 0; tileZ < mapHeight; tileZ++)
{
for(int tileX = 0; tileX < mapWidth; tileX++)
{
VertexArray[index_array+0] = tileX;
VertexArray[index_array+1] = GetHeight(tileX, tileZ);
VertexArray[index_array+2] = tileZ;

index_array+=3;
}
}

//
// calculate the vertex indices so can i can use glDrawElements to draw the
terrain!
//

int index_indices=0;
for(int tileZ = 0; tileZ < mapHeight; tileZ++)
{
for(int tileX = 0; tileX < mapWidth; tileX++)
{
IndexArray[index_indices+0] = (tileZ * mapWidth) + tileX;
IndexArray[index_indices+1] = ((tileZ+1) * mapWidth) + tileX;
IndexArray[index_indices+2] = ((tileZ+1) * mapWidth) + (tileX+1);
IndexArray[index_indices+3] = (tileZ * mapWidth) + (tileX+1);

index_indices+=4;
}
}
}

/* render landscape using vertex arrays & glDrawElements() */

void render_landscape()
{
// enable vertex arrays
glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);

// feed opengl the color, vertices array & indices array
glColor4f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, 0, Landscape.VertexArray);
glDrawElements(GL_QUADS, Landscape.mapWidthLandscape.mapHeight4,
GL_UNSIGNED_INT, Landscape.IndexArray);

// disable
glDisableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
}

3rd parameter of glVertexPointer should be 12 I believe not 0. It’s 12 bytes from the first X coord to the second in the array. (3 x 4byte floats)

Nutty

Originally posted by Nutty:
[b]3rd parameter of glVertexPointer should be 12 I believe not 0. It’s 12 bytes from the first X coord to the second in the array. (3 x 4byte floats)

Nutty[/b]

No, that is not true - the actual one was right.

[CS]

Just a thought but could it be that that coords for the vertices are not stored properly. I ran into this problem once where faces were rendering nut incorrectly. I discouvered that the vertex array was actuall storing the first coords of the first vertex of each face in a block at the start of the file so instead of x1,y1,z1,x2,y2… I had x1,x2,x3,…
As I said thught its just a thought

CS, I am a bit puzzled by this. Reading the Red Book seems to indicate that it should be zero. However I have an application which uses the following structure

typedef struct {

hlGVector3 v; //The vertex position.

hlGVector3 n; //The vertex normal.

hlGTVector t; //The vertex texture coords.

}hlGVertex;

And I dynamically allocate an array of them.
If the size of the actual vertices is ignored, and it’s only the size in bytes between them, then surely I would use 20 for my stride. (12 bytes for the normal, (3 floats) and 8 bytes for the coords (2 floats) ) This does not work. I have to use 32. (It definitly works with 32, as used by glNormalPointer and glTexCoordPointer.

32 bytes is the stride between the first vertex X coord and the 2nd vertex X coord. So sureley using the same prinicple on an array of floats should yield the value of 12??

Or am I being stupid here and overlooking something?..

Or is it a bug in my driver. I’m using Detonator 6.47 on a geforce 256.

Nutty

Hmmm… Got a flat undulating mesh being rendered with glDrawElements, and the use of glVertexPointer, and glColorPointer.

Both vertices and colors are arrays of 3 float component Vertex structures. 12 bytes in size.

I get no difference in visuals or performance, when either 12 or 0 is used for stride on both pointer functions.

Someone please tell me what is going on here!

Nutty

This is an oldy but the reason u have no difference with 12 bytes or 0 is that using 0 tells openGL to assume the vertices are tightly packed in which they are in your particular case.

If you were to use

float x,y,z,pad then you would need to use a stride of 16.

btw a note for performance align to a 16byte boundry by using a padder in your vertex data.

How about a good old-fashioned glEnable(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY)?

Man oh man, this thread is old…

You reckon a structure of 16 bytes, will render faster than if I use 12 byte structures?

Hmmmm…

I’ll have to test it.

Nutty