I'm trying to "highlight" (add a wire frame) to some nearby chests when the player looks at a certain block, but I can't seem to get the tessellator to draw the wire frame. I followed the tutorial here on tessellation, but it's mainly for drawing faces of a custom block. I just want to draw a "phantom" wire frame with the faces shaded a color with a low alpha. Currently I just have the code for one face to get started but I stopped there because I was just getting a glitchy black face that was invisible from most angles and glitchy from others. I guess I'm using the wrong methods to draw lines. Sorry, but I just can't find a lot of good info about this.

 

Tessellator t = Tessellator.instance;
	GL11.glPushMatrix();
	GL11.glColor4d(1.0D, 0.0D, 0.0D, 1.0D);
	GL11.glTranslated(x, y+1, z);
	GL11.glLineWidth(3.0F);
	//t.startDrawingQuads(); // EDIT: Was using this. Now using next line.
	t.startDrawing(GL11.GL_LINE_STRIP); // This is showing the wireframe, but not all the time.

	t.addVertex(0, 0, 0);
	t.addVertex(0, 1, 0);
	t.addVertex(1, 1, 0);
	t.addVertex(1, 0, 0);
	t.draw();
	GL11.glPopMatrix();

 

Any help or a point toward a similar tutorial would be greatly appreciated.

Hi

 

Here is some code I have used to render a wire frame; there is a lot of extra irrelevant stuff in there but it might give you some clues about what is going wrong.  Perhaps disable GL_TEXTURE_2D?

BTW what do you mean a "glitchy black face"?  if you are trying to draw lines (a wire frame), you shouldn't see any faces?

 

-TGG

 

  public void render(RenderPhase renderPhase, EntityPlayer player, int animationTickCount, float partialTick)
  {
    boolean shouldIRender = infoProvider.refreshRenderInfo(renderInfo);
    if (!shouldIRender) return;

    try {
      GL11.glPushAttrib(GL11.GL_ENABLE_BIT);
      GL11.glDepthMask(false);

      GL11.glEnable(GL11.GL_BLEND);
      GL11.glBlendFunc(GL11.GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL11.GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
      GL11.glColor4f(Colour.BLACK_40.R, Colour.BLACK_40.G, Colour.BLACK_40.B, Colour.BLACK_40.A);
      GL11.glLineWidth(2.0F);
      GL11.glDisable(GL11.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
      double expandDistance = 0.002F;

      Vec3 playerOrigin = player.getPosition(partialTick);

      AxisAlignedBB boundingBox = AxisAlignedBB.getAABBPool().getAABB(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
      for (ChunkCoordinates block : renderInfo.currentlySelectedBlocks) {
        boundingBox.setBounds(block.posX, block.posY, block.posZ, block.posX + 1, block.posY + 1, block.posZ + 1);
        boundingBox = boundingBox.expand(expandDistance, expandDistance, expandDistance).getOffsetBoundingBox(-playerOrigin.xCoord, -playerOrigin.yCoord, -playerOrigin.zCoord);
        switch (SELECTION_BOX_STYLE) {
          case 0: {
            SelectionBoxRenderer.drawCube(boundingBox);
            break;
          }
          case 1: {
            SelectionBoxRenderer.drawFilledCube(boundingBox);
            break;
          }
        }
      }
    } finally {
      GL11.glDepthMask(true);
      GL11.glPopAttrib();
    }
  }

 

and

 

  public static void drawCube(AxisAlignedBB cube) {
    double xa = cube.minX;
    double xb = cube.maxX;
    double ya = cube.minY;
    double yb = cube.maxY;
    double za = cube.minZ;
    double zb = cube.maxZ;

//    OpenGLdebugging.dumpAllIsEnabled();

    Tessellator tessellator = Tessellator.instance;
    tessellator.startDrawing(GL11.GL_LINE_STRIP);
    tessellator.addVertex(xa, ya, za);
    tessellator.addVertex(xa, yb, za);
    tessellator.addVertex(xb, yb, za);
    tessellator.addVertex(xb, ya, za);
    tessellator.addVertex(xa, ya, za);

    tessellator.addVertex(xa, ya, zb);
    tessellator.addVertex(xa, yb, zb);
    tessellator.addVertex(xb, yb, zb);
    tessellator.addVertex(xb, ya, zb);
    tessellator.addVertex(xa, ya, zb);
    tessellator.draw();

    tessellator.startDrawing(GL11.GL_LINES);
    tessellator.addVertex(xa, ya, za);
    tessellator.addVertex(xa, ya, zb);

    tessellator.addVertex(xa, yb, za);
    tessellator.addVertex(xa, yb, zb);

    tessellator.addVertex(xb, ya, za);
    tessellator.addVertex(xb, ya, zb);

    tessellator.addVertex(xb, yb, za);
    tessellator.addVertex(xb, yb, zb);
    tessellator.draw();
  }