as soon as specify z coordinate, line dissapears

OpenGL OpenGL: Basic Coding
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Hi,

I have the following code segment:

glBegin(GL_LINE_STRIP);

glColor3f(1.0,0.0,1.0);
glVertex3f( 400.0, 100.0,0.0);
glVertex3f(450.0,100.0,0.0);
glEnd();

Thta works fine, but as soon as I put a z-coordinate value other than 0, nothing appears on the screen.
Is it something to do with the setup?

thanks,

Sumit

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How do you setup your projection and modelview matrices? You are likely going behind the far clip plane or in front of the near clip plane.

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Or your Camera is in front of the line!

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Originally posted by mphanke:
Or your Camera is in front of the line!

Well then he would also be in front of the near clip plane, now wouldn’t he?

Anyway, just as a FYI, sroy e-mailed me some of his setup code, and I think his problem is that he is actually going outside the viewing frustum to the top right. He originally had an Orthographic view that had a left & right clip area of 0-500, and he’s now trying to use a perspective view. You’ll note above that his x/y coordinates are 400, 100, which would need to be pushed WAY back in order to be in a typical frustum viewing volume. Hopefully some of the code I mailed him helps explain where the viewing volume is with a perspective view.

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Probably the depth test is GL_EQUAL or something…