Set Ball Position

We set the ball into a fixed position on the screen by passing in coordinates

Published Sep 28, 2017

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A common technique that you will become familiar with in OpenGL is having your assets with local coordinates at the origin. These assets are then positioned into the scene where you need with a model position (mvp) matrix. To do this, we’ll edit our vertex shader again.

Vertex Shader

shader/vertex.glsl

#version 120

uniform mat4 mvp;
uniform mat4 orthograph;
attribute vec2 coord2d;

void main (void) {
	
	vec4 pixel_pos = mvp * vec4(coord2d, 0.0, 1.0);
	gl_Position = orthograph * pixel_pos;

}

Main Program

Next we’ll add the mvp matrix into our main program.

main.c

#include <epoxy/gl.h>
#include <epoxy/glx.h>
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <math.h>
#include "DashGL/dashgl.h"

#define WIDTH 640.0f
#define HEIGHT 480.0f

static void on_realize(GtkGLArea *area);
static void on_render(GtkGLArea *area, GdkGLContext *context);

GLuint program;
GLuint vao, vbo_circle;
GLint attribute_coord2d;

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

	GtkWidget *window;
	GtkWidget *glArea;

	gtk_init(&argc, &argv);

	// Initialize Window

	window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
	gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(window), "Brickout Tutorial");
	gtk_window_set_position(GTK_WINDOW(window), GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER);
	gtk_window_set_default_size(GTK_WINDOW(window), 640, 480);
	gtk_window_set_type_hint(GTK_WINDOW(window), GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_UTILITY);
	g_signal_connect(window, "destroy", G_CALLBACK(gtk_main_quit), NULL);

	// Initialize GTK GL Area

	glArea = gtk_gl_area_new();
	gtk_widget_set_vexpand(glArea, TRUE);
	gtk_widget_set_hexpand(glArea, TRUE);
	g_signal_connect(glArea, "realize", G_CALLBACK(on_realize), NULL);
	g_signal_connect(glArea, "render", G_CALLBACK(on_render), NULL);
	gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), glArea);

	// Show widgets

	gtk_widget_show_all(window);
	gtk_main();

	return 0;

}

static void on_realize(GtkGLArea *area) {

	// Debug Message

	g_print("on realize\n");

	gtk_gl_area_make_current(area);
	if(gtk_gl_area_get_error(area) != NULL) {
		fprintf(stderr, "Unknown error\n");
		return;
	}

	const GLubyte *renderer = glGetString(GL_RENDER);
	const GLubyte *version = glGetString(GL_VERSION);
	const GLubyte *shader = glGetString(GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION);

	printf("Shader %s\n", shader);
	printf("Renderer: %s\n", renderer);
	printf("OpenGL version supported %s\n", version);

	glClearColor(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);

	glGenVertexArrays(1, &vao);
	glBindVertexArray(vao);

	int i;
	float angle, nextAngle;
	int num_segments = 100;

	GLfloat circle_vertices[6 * 100];
	
	for(i = 0; i vec3 pos = { 50.0f, 50.0f, 0.0f };
	mat4 mvp;
	mat4_translate(pos, mvp);
	
	glUniformMatrix4fv(uniform_mvp, 1, GL_FALSE, mvp);
}

static void on_render(GtkGLArea *area, GdkGLContext *context) {

	g_print("on render\n");

	glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);

	glBindVertexArray(vao);
	glEnableVertexAttribArray(attribute_coord2d);

	glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo_circle);
	glVertexAttribPointer(
		attribute_coord2d,
		2,
		GL_FLOAT,
		GL_FALSE,
		0,
		0
	);

	glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, 3 * 100);
	glDisableVertexAttribArray(attribute_coord2d);

}

Compile

$ gcc -c -o DashGL/dashgl.o DashGL/dashgl.c -lepoxy -lpng -lm
$ gcc `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0` main.c DashGL/dashgl.o `pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0` \
-lepoxy -lm -lpng

Run

$ ./a.out