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hello guys, I'm trying to draw my X, Y and Z axes at the top right handside of my screen just like this: https://imgur.com/v6sK2zq,
I can draw those axes in the world space but I don't know how to translate them to that exact position. anyone knows how to do it?
I can draw those axes in the world space but I don't know how to translate them to that exact position. anyone knows how to do it?
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not a lot to go on but unless you are drawing a weapon for an orc or barbarian or something, its axis, not axes :P
to draw them one would normally just make a fat visible line from 0 to N for each ... eg from 0,0,0 to 0,0,100000 and another from 0,0,0 to 0,100000,0 and a third from 0,0,0 to 100000,0,0 ... right? It helps to color code them too, so you can visually tell them apart.
if you want to move them, pick a new zero, and draw from there...
x,y,z to x,y,z+n and x,y,z to x,y+n,z and so on, same as above except the zeros are now something else.
if you want to rotate it as well, you will need a bit more, but its not hard, do you need a rotation?
to draw them one would normally just make a fat visible line from 0 to N for each ... eg from 0,0,0 to 0,0,100000 and another from 0,0,0 to 0,100000,0 and a third from 0,0,0 to 100000,0,0 ... right? It helps to color code them too, so you can visually tell them apart.
if you want to move them, pick a new zero, and draw from there...
x,y,z to x,y,z+n and x,y,z to x,y+n,z and so on, same as above except the zeros are now something else.
if you want to rotate it as well, you will need a bit more, but its not hard, do you need a rotation?
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| jonnin wrote: |
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| unless you are drawing a weapon for an orc or barbarian or something, its axis, not axes |
The plural of "axis" is "axes" (AKseez).
@jonnin, I don't think you understand what I want to do, but let's say I want to draw a 3d object at the top right handside of the view space, so that it should always be drawn at that position even if I move my camera and look somewhere else. (It's like a HUD, except it's a 3D thing). I basically want to do exactly this: https://imgur.com/a/rqnMtuY
this is what I have for now: https://imgur.com/g0DXGrS
this is what I have for now: https://imgur.com/g0DXGrS
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Oh. The easy way to do that is to draw it as an overlay, not in the scene at all. You can do that by having 2 scenes that get rendered together but are handled distinctly, so moving the camera in one has no effect on the other.
Its a lot easier to do that in 2-d -- if you can draw that thing in 2-d? If its really that simple axis / dots hud, you can draw it by hand in 2-d and overlay that easier than a 3-d overlay (but the 3-d isnt that much harder).
Its a lot easier to do that in 2-d -- if you can draw that thing in 2-d? If its really that simple axis / dots hud, you can draw it by hand in 2-d and overlay that easier than a 3-d overlay (but the 3-d isnt that much harder).
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I don't think that an overlay is an efficient way of doing this, I'm sure there has to be some easier way by using the view matrix maybe.
| I don't think that an overlay is an efficient way of doing this |
Don't optimize prematurely.
| Don't optimize prematurely. |
I can't afford to do it the wrong/slow way, especially when I'm working on a performance critical program. and by the way that's not how graphics APIs work.
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| I can't afford to do it the wrong/slow way. |
The advice about premature optimization is about allocating valuable programmer effort on tasks that maximize product quality per invested time.
Unless your program is literally a 3D compass, drawing that compass certainly has a negligible impact on your software's performance.
| By the way that's not how graphics APIs work. |
An "overlay" is an interface concept totally unrelated with the particulars of any graphics API. Clearly you know this, because it was your suggestion.
I don't entirely understand what the difficulty is. Just project modelspace coordinates into NDC space.
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You don't seem to understand how graphic APIs work or maybe you don't even know what they are, otherwise I have no idea what you're talking about.
| You don't seem to understand how graphic APIs work |
... says the beginner who can't figure out how to do something simple.
Fuck this turd.
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Go ahead, loser, downvote me!
Go ahead, loser, downvote me!
Congratulations, LOSER, you proved my point so very eloquently. Marvelously whiny tantrum, dulbert.
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