Projecting a 3D vector from object space into screen space

[504185787]

I'm having an issue with getting the correct screen coordinates. Also the inventory textures are not getting rendered. Which makes me think I'm not restoring the the state properly.

 

I have also underflowed and overflowed the stack. I don't see how. For every push I have a corresponding pop. EntityRenderer#setupCameraTransform doesn't seem to push/pop anything either.

 

Can someone take a look and tell me what I am doing wrong?

 

I'm hooking RenderGameOverlay which seems like the right place for 2D rendering.

 

However the matrices at this point aren't setup properly (not relative to camera) for gluProject.

 

I first backup the matrices and other state information (current matrix mode) with GL11#glPushMatrix/glPushAttrib.

 

Then I update the matrices (make them relative to camera) for gluProject by calling EntityRenderer#setupCameraTransform, store them in a buffer, and restore state.

 

package org.504185787.test;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.nio.FloatBuffer;
import java.nio.IntBuffer;

import org.lwjgl.BufferUtils;
import org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11;
import org.lwjgl.util.glu.Project;

import net.minecraft.client.Minecraft;
import net.minecraft.client.renderer.EntityRenderer;
import net.minecraft.client.renderer.GlStateManager;
import net.minecraftforge.client.event.RenderGameOverlayEvent;
import net.minecraftforge.client.event.RenderGameOverlayEvent.ElementType;
import net.minecraftforge.common.MinecraftForge;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.Mod;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.Mod.EventHandler;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.event.FMLPostInitializationEvent;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.eventhandler.EventPriority;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.eventhandler.SubscribeEvent;

@Mod(modid = "testmod", name = "Test Mod", version = "0")
public class TestMod
{
private Minecraft mc;

    @EventHandler
    public void postInit(FMLPostInitializationEvent event)
    {
    	MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS.register(this);
    	mc = Minecraft.getMinecraft();
    }
    
@SubscribeEvent(priority = EventPriority.NORMAL)
public void RenderGameOverlay(RenderGameOverlayEvent event)
{
	if(!event.isCancelable() && event.type == ElementType.ALL)
	{
		GL11.glPushAttrib(GL11.GL_TRANSFORM_BIT);

		GL11.glMatrixMode(GL11.GL_PROJECTION);
		GL11.glPushMatrix();
		GL11.glMatrixMode(GL11.GL_MODELVIEW);
		GL11.glPushMatrix();

		try
		{
			Method setupCameraTransform = EntityRenderer.class.getDeclaredMethod("setupCameraTransform", float.class, int.class);
			setupCameraTransform.setAccessible(true);
			setupCameraTransform.invoke(mc.entityRenderer, event.partialTicks, 0);
		}
		catch (Exception e)
		{
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		FloatBuffer modelMatrix = BufferUtils.createFloatBuffer(16);
		GL11.glGetFloat(GL11.GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, modelMatrix);

		FloatBuffer projMatrix = BufferUtils.createFloatBuffer(16);
		GL11.glGetFloat(GL11.GL_PROJECTION_MATRIX, projMatrix);

		IntBuffer viewport = BufferUtils.createIntBuffer(16);
		GL11.glGetInteger(GL11.GL_VIEWPORT, viewport);

		GL11.glMatrixMode(GL11.GL_MODELVIEW);
		GL11.glPopMatrix();
		GL11.glMatrixMode(GL11.GL_PROJECTION);
		GL11.glPopMatrix();

		GL11.glPopAttrib();

		FloatBuffer screen2D = BufferUtils.createFloatBuffer(16);
		if(Project.gluProject(242, 76, 25, modelMatrix, projMatrix, viewport, screen2D))
		{
			int[] screen = new int[] {(int)screen2D.get(0), (int)screen2D.get(1)};
			mc.ingameGUI.drawString(mc.fontRendererObj, "Text", screen[0], screen[1], 0xFF00FF00);
		}

		mc.ingameGUI.drawString(mc.fontRendererObj, "[RenderGameOverlay]", 5, 5, 0xFF00FF00);
	}
}
}

[ItsAMysteriousYT]

StackUnderflow means that you do popMatrix to often. For every PushMatrix() you need a related popmatrix call.  That also fixes the fact that inventorytextures aren't rendered.

[ItsAMysteriousYT]

But what i don't get, is what you want to do with that complicated GLStateManager stuff? If you wanna render an overlay, just use ScaledResolution to get the correct screen coordinates.

[504185787]

StackUnderflow means that you do popMatrix to often. For every PushMatrix() you need a related popmatrix call.  That also fixes the fact that inventorytextures aren't rendered.

 

Right, but as I said in my post I don't see any push without a corresponding pop. Two pushMatrix, two popMatrix, one pushAttrib, one popAttrib.

 

But what i don't get, is what you want to do with that complicated GLStateManager stuff? If you wanna render an overlay, just use ScaledResolution to get the correct screen coordinates.

 

The text should overlay the 3d point. If the camera turns then the text should move as well and stay on that 3d point.

 

For example: If the 3d point is the coordinates of a pig then the text should always be drawn on the pig.

[TheGreyGhost]

Hi

 

The GLStateManager is buggy, don't use it.    It doesn't dirty its cache properly with the push and pop, and it wouldn't surprise me if it's the cause of your stack underflow.

 

With any luck that might solve the other issues too.

 

-TGG

 

 

[ItsAMysteriousYT]

Oh, you can do this an easier way i think why don't you do it with objectMouseOver.entityHit to get the entity and then maybe this helps you https://www.evl.uic.edu/luc/488/slides/class7.pdf

[504185787]

@TheGreyGhost: Thanks the inventory textures are now being rendered again. The underflow/overflow also seems to be fixed.

 

Oh, you can do this an easier way i think why don't you do it with objectMouseOver.entityHit to get the entity and then maybe this helps you https://www.evl.uic.edu/luc/488/slides/class7.pdf

 

objectMouseOver.entityHit ("Picking" / "ray cast") is the opposite of what I want.

I don't need to get the entity. I already have it. I want the 2D point on the screen where that entity is so that I can draw text on it.

 

I haven't done it with OpenGL before, only directX. I could also do it by disabling depth testing and drawing I believe.

I'll see if I can get that to work.

 

[ItsAMysteriousYT]

Okay, good luck Cool, never coded directX myself, but it would be cool if i could learn it. Where have you learned it?

[jabelar]

I want the 2D point on the screen where that entity is so that I can draw text on it.

 

Why not think about this in 3D instead? Maybe you should do it as an entity render thing, draw the text oriented toward the camera (and possibly move the text towards the camera). Basically similar to the way names are displayed over entities/players. It really depends on the effect you're trying to get, but might work for you.

[TheGreyGhost]

Hi

 

Render.renderLivingLabel() might give some inspiration on how you can add text on or near an entity.

 

-TGG

[504185787]

@TheGreyGhost: Thanks. Got it working. That was the technique I was thinking about in my last post that Render#renderLivingLabel uses. Scaling is kind of annoying when doing it this way though. Have to scale with distance and set a min/max scale value. With the other method the text is always the same size regardless of distance.