Jeff Molofee - NeHe's OpenGL Tutorials

gl_nicest — Makes the fog per pixel (look good)

glfastest — Makes the fog per vertex (faster, but less nice)

The next line glFogf(GL_FOG_START, 1.0f); will establish how close to the screen the fog should start. You can change the number to whatever you want depending on where you want the fog to start. The next line is similar, glFogf(GL_FOG_END, 5.0f);. This tells the OpenGL program how far into the screen the fog should go.

Now that we've setup the fog drawing code we will add the keyboard commands to cycle through the different fog modes. This code goes down at the end of the program with all the other key handling code.

if (keys['G'] && !gp) // Is The G Key Being Pressed?

{

gp=TRUE; // gp Is Set To TRUE

fogfilter+=1; // Increase fogfilter By One

if (fogfilter>2) // Is fogfilter Greater Than 2?

{

fogfilter=0; // If So, Set fogfilter To Zero

}

glFogi (GL_FOG_MODE, fogMode[fogfilter]); // Fog Mode

}

if (!keys['G']) // Has The G Key Been Released?

{

gp=FALSE; // If So, gp Is Set To FALSE

}

That's it! We are done! You now have fog in your OpenGL program. I'd have to say that was pretty painless. If you have any questions or comments feel free to contact me at chris@incinerated.com. Also please stop by my website: http://www.incinerated.com/and http://www.incinerated.com/precursor.

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This tutorial brought to you by NeHe & Giuseppe D'Agata…

I know everyones probably sick of fonts. The text tutorials I've done so far not only display text, they display 3D text, texture mapped text, and can handle variables. But what happens if you're porting your project to a machine that doesn't support Bitmap or Outline fonts?

Thanks to Giuseppe D'Agata we have yet another font tutorial. What could possibly be left you ask!? If you remember in the first Font tutorial I mentioned using textures to draw letters to the screen. Usually when you use textures to draw text to the screen you load up your favorite art program, select a font, then type the letters or phase you want to display. You then save the bitmap and load it into your program as a texture. Not very efficient for a program that require alot of text, or text that continually changes!

This program uses just ONE texture to display any of 256 different characters on the screen. Keep in mind your average character is just 16 pixels wide and roughly 16 pixels tall. If you take your standard 256×256 texture it's easy to see that you can fit 16 letters across, and you can have a total of 16 rows up and down. If you need a more detailed explanation: The texture is 256 pixels wide, a character is 16 pixels wide. 256 divided by 16 is 16 :)

So… Lets create a 2D textured font demo! This program expands on the code from lesson 1. In the first section of the program, we include the math and stdio libraries. We need the math library to move our letters around the screen using SIN and COS, and we need the stdio library to make sure the bitmaps we want to use actually exist before we try to make textures out of them.

#include // Header File For Windows

#include // Header File For Windows Math Library ( ADD )

#include // Header File For Standard Input/Output ( ADD )

#include // Header File For The OpenGL32 Library

#include // Header File For The GLu32 Library

#include // Header File For The GLaux Library

HDC hDC=NULL; // Private GDI Device Context

HGLRC hRC=NULL; // Permanent Rendering Context

HWND hWnd=NULL; // Holds Our Window Handle

HINSTANCE hInstance; // Holds The Instance Of The Application

bool keys[256]; // Array Used For The Keyboard Routine

bool active=TRUE; // Window Active Flag Set To TRUE By Default

bool fullscreen=TRUE; // Fullscreen Flag Set To Fullscreen Mode By Default

We're going to add a variable called base to point us to our display lists. We'll also add texture[2] to hold the two textures we're going to create. Texture 1 will be the font texture, and texture 2 will be a bump texture used to create our simple 3D object.

We add the variable loop which we will use to execute loops. Finally we add cnt1 and cnt2 which we will use to move the text around the screen and to spin our simple 3D object.

GLuint base; // Base Display List For The Font

GLuint texture[2]; // Storage For Our Font Texture

GLuint loop; // Generic Loop Variable

GLfloat cnt1; // 1st Counter Used To Move Text & For Coloring

GLfloat cnt2; // 2nd Counter Used To Move Text & For Coloring

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM); // Declaration For WndProc

Now for the texture loading code. It's exactly the same as it was in the previous texture mapping tutorials.

AUX_RGBImageRec *LoadBMP(char *Filename) // Loads A Bitmap Image

{

FILE *File=NULL; // File Handle

if (!Filename) // Make Sure A Filename Was Given

{

return NULL; // If Not Return NULL

}

File=fopen(Filename,"r"); // Check To See If The File Exists

if (File) // Does The File Exist?

{

fclose(File); // Close The Handle

return auxDIBImageLoad(Filename); // Load The Bitmap And Return A Pointer

}

return NULL; // If Load Failed Return NULL

}

The follwing code has also changed very little from the code used in previous tutorials. If you're not sure what each of the following lines do, go back and review.

Note that TextureImage[ ] is going to hold 2 rgb image records. It's very important to double check code that deals with loading or storing our textures. One wrong number could result in a memory leak or crash!

int LoadGLTextures() // Load Bitmaps And Convert To Textures

{

int Status=FALSE; // Status Indicator

AUX_RGBImageRec *TextureImage[2]; // Create Storage Space For The Textures