Textured Primitives in XNA with a first person camera - xna

So I have a XNA application set up. The camera is in first person mode, and the user can move around using the keyboard and reposition the camera target with the mouse. I have been able to load 3D models fine, and they appear on screen no problem. Whenever I try to draw any primitive (textured or not), it does not show up anywhere on the screen, no matter how I position the camera.
In Initialize(), I have:
quad = new Quad(Vector3.Zero, Vector3.UnitZ, Vector3.Up, 2, 2);
quadVertexDecl = new VertexDeclaration(this.GraphicsDevice, VertexPositionNormalTexture.VertexElements);
In LoadContent(), I have:
quadTexture = Content.Load<Texture2D>(#"Textures\brickWall");
quadEffect = new BasicEffect(this.GraphicsDevice, null);
quadEffect.AmbientLightColor = new Vector3(0.8f, 0.8f, 0.8f);
quadEffect.LightingEnabled = true;
quadEffect.World = Matrix.Identity;
quadEffect.View = Matrix.CreateLookAt(cameraPosition, cameraTarget, Vector3.Up);
quadEffect.Projection = this.Projection;
quadEffect.TextureEnabled = true;
quadEffect.Texture = quadTexture;
And in Draw() I have:
this.GraphicsDevice.VertexDeclaration = quadVertexDecl;
quadEffect.Begin();
foreach (EffectPass pass in quadEffect.CurrentTechnique.Passes)
{
pass.Begin();
GraphicsDevice.DrawUserIndexedPrimitives<VertexPositionNormalTexture>(
PrimitiveType.TriangleList,
quad.Vertices, 0, 4,
quad.Indexes, 0, 2);
pass.End();
}
quadEffect.End();
I think I'm doing something wrong in the quadEffect properties, but I'm not quite sure what.

I can't run this code on the computer here at work as I don't have game studio installed. But for reference, check out the 3D audio sample on the creator's club website. They have a "QuadDrawer" in that project which demonstrates how to draw a textured quad in any position in the world. It's a pretty nice solution for what it seems you want to do :-)
http://creators.xna.com/en-US/sample/3daudio

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(DX12 Shadow Mapping) Depth buffer is always filled with 1

I'm really new to graphics programming in general, so please bear with me. I am trying to add shadow mapping from a distant light (orthogonal projection) into my scene, but when I follow the (very incomplete) steps from Frank Luna's DX12 book I find that my SRV for the shadow map is just filled with depths of 1.
If it helps, here is my SRV definition:
D3D12_TEX2D_SRV texDesc = {
0,
-1,
0,
0.0f
};
D3D12_SHADER_RESOURCE_VIEW_DESC srvDesc = {
DXGI_FORMAT_R32_TYPELESS,
D3D12_SRV_DIMENSION_TEXTURE2D,
D3D12_DEFAULT_SHADER_4_COMPONENT_MAPPING,
};
srvDesc.Texture2D = texDesc;
m_device->CreateShaderResourceView(m_lightDepthTexture.Get(),&srvDesc, m_cbvHeap->GetCPUDescriptorHandleForHeapStart());
and here are my DSV heap and descriptor definitions:
D3D12_DESCRIPTOR_HEAP_DESC dsvHeapDesc = {};
dsvHeapDesc.NumDescriptors = 2;
dsvHeapDesc.Type = D3D12_DESCRIPTOR_HEAP_TYPE_DSV;
dsvHeapDesc.Flags = D3D12_DESCRIPTOR_HEAP_FLAG_NONE;
ThrowIfFailed(m_device->CreateDescriptorHeap(&dsvHeapDesc, IID_PPV_ARGS(&m_dsvHeap)));
D3D12_DEPTH_STENCIL_VIEW_DESC depthStencilDesc = {};
depthStencilDesc.Format = DXGI_FORMAT_D32_FLOAT;
depthStencilDesc.ViewDimension = D3D12_DSV_DIMENSION_TEXTURE2D;
depthStencilDesc.Flags = D3D12_DSV_FLAG_NONE;
CD3DX12_HEAP_PROPERTIES heapProps = CD3DX12_HEAP_PROPERTIES(D3D12_HEAP_TYPE_DEFAULT);
CD3DX12_RESOURCE_DESC resourceDesc = CD3DX12_RESOURCE_DESC::Tex2D(DXGI_FORMAT_R32_TYPELESS, m_width, m_height, 1, 0, 1, 0, D3D12_RESOURCE_FLAG_ALLOW_DEPTH_STENCIL);
D3D12_CLEAR_VALUE depthOptimizedClearValue = {};
depthOptimizedClearValue.Format = DXGI_FORMAT_D32_FLOAT;
depthOptimizedClearValue.DepthStencil.Depth = 1.0f;
depthOptimizedClearValue.DepthStencil.Stencil = 0;
ThrowIfFailed(m_device->CreateCommittedResource(
&heapProps,
D3D12_HEAP_FLAG_NONE,
&resourceDesc,
D3D12_RESOURCE_STATE_DEPTH_WRITE,
&depthOptimizedClearValue,
IID_PPV_ARGS(&m_dsvBuffer)
));
D3D12_RESOURCE_DESC texDesc;
ZeroMemory(&texDesc, sizeof(D3D12_RESOURCE_DESC));
texDesc.Dimension = D3D12_RESOURCE_DIMENSION_TEXTURE2D;
texDesc.Alignment = 0;
texDesc.Width = m_width;
texDesc.Height = m_height;
texDesc.DepthOrArraySize = 1;
texDesc.MipLevels = 1;
texDesc.Format = DXGI_FORMAT_R32_TYPELESS;
texDesc.SampleDesc.Count = 1;
texDesc.SampleDesc.Quality = 0;
texDesc.Layout = D3D12_TEXTURE_LAYOUT_UNKNOWN;
texDesc.Flags = D3D12_RESOURCE_FLAG_ALLOW_DEPTH_STENCIL;
ThrowIfFailed(m_device->CreateCommittedResource(
&heapProps,
D3D12_HEAP_FLAG_NONE,
&texDesc,
D3D12_RESOURCE_STATE_GENERIC_READ,
&depthOptimizedClearValue,
IID_PPV_ARGS(&m_lightDepthTexture)
));
CD3DX12_CPU_DESCRIPTOR_HANDLE dsv(m_dsvHeap->GetCPUDescriptorHandleForHeapStart());
m_device->CreateDepthStencilView(m_dsvBuffer.Get(), &depthStencilDesc, dsv);
dsv.Offset(1, m_device->GetDescriptorHandleIncrementSize(D3D12_DESCRIPTOR_HEAP_TYPE_DSV));
m_device->CreateDepthStencilView(m_lightDepthTexture.Get(), &depthStencilDesc, dsv);
I then created a basic vertex shader that just transforms the vertices with my map (from Frank Luna's book, page 648,650). Since I bound the m_lightDepthTexture to D3D12GraphicsCommandList::OMSetRenderTargets, I assumed that the depth values would be written onto m_lightDepthTexture. But simply sampling this texture in my main pass proves that the values are actually 1.0f. So nothing actually happened on my shadow pass!
I really have no idea what to ask, but if anyone has a sample DX12 shadow map I could see (Google comes up with DX11 or less, or much too complicated samples), or if there's a good source to learn about this, please let me know!
EDIT: I should say that I changed the format from DXGI_FORMAT_D24_UNORM_S8_UINT, as I think the extra 8 bits for stencil is irrelevant to my case. I changed back to the book format and nothing changed, so I think this format should be fine.
If you remove the unecessary return ret; from your shadow vertex shader, the problem then seems to be in winding order of vertices of your sphere. You can easily verify this by setting cull mode to D3D12_CULL_MODE_NONE for your shadow PSO.
You can easily correct your sphere winding order by switching order of any two vertices of every triangle, so wherever you have p1,p2,p3 you just write it for example as p1,p3,p2.
You will also need to check your matrix multiplication order in your vertex shaders, I didn't checked it in detail but it's inconsistent and I believe the cause why the sphere will appear black when you fix the above issue. You also seem to be missing division by w for your light coords in lighting vertex shader.

Alpha masks bounding box transparency clashing / overwriting with other alpha masks. XNA

Above is an example of my problem. I have two alpha masks that are exactly the same, just a circle white gradient with transparent background.
I am drawing to a RenderTexture2D that is rendered above the screen to creating lighting. It clears a semi transparent black color, and then the alpha masks are drawn in the correct position to appear like lights..
On their own it works fine, but if two clash, like the below "torch" against the blue glowing mushrooms, you can see the bounding box transparency is overwriting the already drawn orange glow.
Here is my approach:
This is creating the render target:
RenderTarget2D = new RenderTarget2D(Global.GraphicsDevice, Global.Resolution.X+4, Global.Resolution.Y+4);
SpriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(Global.GraphicsDevice);
This is drawing to the render target:
private void UpdateRenderTarget()
{
Global.GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(RenderTarget2D);
Global.GraphicsDevice.Clear(ClearColor);
// Draw textures
float i = 0;
foreach (DrawableTexture item in DrawableTextures)
{
i += 0.1f;
item.Update?.Invoke(item);
SpriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.Immediate, item.Blend,
SamplerState.PointClamp, DepthStencilState.Default,
RasterizerState.CullNone);
SpriteBatch.Draw(
item.Texture,
(item.Position - Position) + (item.Texture.Size() / 2 * (1 - item.Scale)),
null,
item.Color,
0,
Vector2.Zero,
item.Scale,
SpriteEffects.None,
i
);
SpriteBatch.End();
}
Global.GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(null);
}
I have heard about depth stencils etc.. and I feel like I have tried so many combinations of things but I am still getting the issue. I haven't had any troubles with this while building all the other graphics in my game.
Any help is greatly appreciated thanks! :)
Ah, this turned out to be a problem with the BlendState itself rather than the SpriteBatch. I had created a custom BlendState "Multiply" which I picked up online that was causing the issue.
"whats causing" the problem was the real question here.
This was the solution to get my effect without "overlapping":
public static BlendState Lighting = new BlendState
{
ColorSourceBlend = Blend.One,
ColorDestinationBlend = Blend.One,
AlphaSourceBlend = Blend.Zero,
AlphaDestinationBlend = Blend.InverseSourceColor
};
This allows the textures to overlap, and also "subtracts" from the "darkness" layer. It would be easier to see if the darkness was more opaque.
I have answered this just incase some other fool mistakes a blend state problem with the sprite batch itself.

add mouseevents to webgl objects

im using xtk to visualize medical data in a webgl canvas. currently im playing around with this lesson:
lesson 10
this library is pretty good but not very well documented. i want to get rid of that gui and add some mouseevents. if i load the mesh from the gui how can i add a mouse event to the mesh? i actually don't know where to start. it's a little bit confusing to get started with this library....
i tried
mesh.click(function(){
alert("yes");
})
or
mesh.mousedown(function(){
alert("yes");
}
Objects rendered in WebGL are not part of the DOM, and as such don't generate events like DOM elements do. This means that for events like these you have to implement the mouse interaction code yourself.
Traditionally in WebGL/OpenGL this process is known as "Picking", and there's several decent resources for it online. (For example: http://webgldemos.thoughtsincomputation.com/engine_tests/picking) The core process is something like this, though:
For each pickable object in your scene, assign it a color. Put this in a lookup table somewhere
Re-render the entire scene to a texture, rendering each pickable object with it's assigned color
Once the scene is rendered, determine your mouse coordinates and read back the color of the texture at that X/Y.
Fetch the object associated with that color from your lookup table. This is the object your mouse cursor is pointing at!
As you can see, while not a difficult method conceptually this also involves several mid-level WebGL topics, such as rendering to a texture, and as such is not usually recommended for beginners. I'm not sure if there are any features in xtk to assist with this (honestly I had never heard of the library before your post), but I would guess that this is something that you'll have to implement on your own.
DOM events are not supported but you can do it with xtk. Check out this JSFiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/haehn/r7Ugf/
// create and initialize a 3D renderer
var r = new X.renderer3D();
r.init();
// create a cube and a sphere
cube = new X.cube();
sphere = new X.sphere();
sphere.center = [-20, 0, 0];
r.interactor.onMouseMove = function() {
// grab the current mouse position
var _pos = r.interactor.mousePosition;
// pick the current object
var _id = r.pick(_pos[0], _pos[1]);
if (_id != 0) {
// grab the object and turn it red
r.get(_id).color = [1, 0, 0];
} else {
// no object under the mouse
cube.color = [1, 1, 1];
sphere.color = [1, 1, 1];
}
r.render();
}
r.interactor.onMouseDown = function(left, middle, right) {
// only observe right mouse clicks
if (!right) return;
// grab the current mouse position
var _pos = r.interactor.mousePosition;
// pick the current object
var _id = r.pick(_pos[0], _pos[1]);
if (_id == sphere.id) {
// turn the sphere green
sphere.color = [0, 1, 0];
r.render();
}
}
r.add(cube); // add the cube to the renderer
r.add(sphere); // and the sphere as well
r.render(); // ..and render it
Easy, no?
XTK implements picking the way Toji explained (i.e. with a frameBuffer where every object is rendered in a different RGBA "color"). It will work while you have less than 255^4 objects, so almost always. There are other methods like unprojecting but they would be longer I think.
So with X.renderer.pick and X.renderer.get you can find the object under the mouse and change its properties. However for the moment you can only change vizualisation properties (see the setGetter and setSetter in every class) but you cannot move an X.object (since X.object._transform attribute is private and there is no getter/setter for it yet).
That's something interesting to deal with : adding a pair of getter/setter for X.object's transform would allow, for example, an user to put medical stuff (modelized by a mesh or something else) in the scene and place to mesure distances or see if it will fit for an operation or something like that. Shouldn't be a good idea Haehn ? And it's a minor change in the framework.

Vertices behind are being drawn infront - XNA

Well, I am creating a minecraft terrain thing just for the heck of it. The problem I have is that if you look on a certain angle some faces which are actually behind others are drawn in front of them, thus not showing the actual ones which are there. Like minecraft I have the terrain seperated into regions, and when the vertexbuffer is built, only the "outside" faces are shown. It is also for some reason is not drawing the very top nor the left blocks. In addition to all of these problems faces seem to be overlapping ie (only half of a face can be seen)
Here is what it looks like (note I am only drawing the top faces because I have to fix the others up): http://s1100.photobucket.com/albums/g420/darestium/?action=view&current=minecraftliketerrain.png
I am also drawing all the regions in one go with the following method (i'm using reimer's effect file until I can write my own :):
public void Draw(Player player, World world)
{
effect.CurrentTechnique = effect.Techniques["TexturedNoShading"];
effect.Parameters["xWorld"].SetValue(Matrix.Identity);
effect.Parameters["xProjection"].SetValue(player.Camera.ProjectionMatrix);
effect.Parameters["xView"].SetValue(player.Camera.ViewMatrix);
effect.Parameters["xCamPos"].SetValue(player.Camera.Position);
effect.Parameters["xTexture"].SetValue(world.TextureAlias.SheetTexture);
effect.Parameters["xCamUp"].SetValue(player.Camera.UpDownRotation);
for (int x = 0; x < world.regions.GetLength(0); x++)
{
for (int y = 0; y < world.regions.GetLength(1); y++)
{
foreach (EffectPass pass in effect.CurrentTechnique.Passes)
{
pass.Apply();
Region region = world.regions[x, y];
if (player.Camera.BoundingFrustum.Contains(region.BoundingBox) != ContainmentType.Disjoint)
{
device.SetVertexBuffer(region.SolidVertexBuffer);
//device.Indices = region.SolidIndices;
device.DrawPrimitives(PrimitiveType.TriangleList, 0, region.VertexCount);
//device.DrawIndexedPrimitives(PrimitiveType.TriangleList, 0, 0, region.VertexCount, 0, region.SolidIndices.IndexCount / 3);
}
}
}
}
}
Help would be much appreciated thanks :)
Looks like the Z-buffer is disabled. Try setting:
GraphicsDevice.DepthStencilState = DepthStencilState.Default;
The issue with it not drawing the top/left blocks, that you mention, is probably an issue to do with your vertex buffer generation code (if so, try asking another question specifically about that issue).

Sprite position in Corona SDK

I didn't understand some object position concepts in Corona SDK
I have created sprite sheet:
local spriteSheet = sprite.newSpriteSheet("button.png", 138, 64);
local spriteSet = sprite.newSpriteSet(spriteSheet, 1, 2);
local sp = sprite.newSprite( spriteSet );
and it's positions are strange and sprite is out of screen bounds even I set x and y positions to zero
config.lua is:
application =
{
content =
{
width = 320,
height = 480,
scale = "letterbox"
},
}
I think that problem in "referencePoint"
just say me how to change setReferencePoint of default screen (not image or group ...), just default screen...
Technically you can use a different coordinate system for all your graphics by creating a display group and attach everything to that group, but really it seems like you're asking the wrong question. Rather than trying to change the reference point of the screen, you should be wondering why your sprites aren't positioned correctly.
Please create a new question that focuses on that problem and explains it further, because all you say here is that the positions are "strange". What's that mean?
You can modify your code like below and just check it,it will work:
local spriteSheet = sprite.newSpriteSheetFromData( "button.png",require("button").getSpriteSheetData())
local spriteSet = sprite.newSpriteSet(spriteSheet,1,9);
sprite.add(spriteset,"button",1,9,1000,0);
//button is lua file use button.lua
local sp = sprite.newSprite( spriteSet );
sp:prepare("button");
sp.x = display.screenOriginX+138;
sp.y = display.screenOriginY+64;

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