convertToNodeSpace confusion - cocos2d-x

I try to capture intersectsRect between 2 sprites
after reading this :
http://www.cocos2d-x.org/wiki/Coordinate_System#convertToNodeSpace
i have this hierarchy of sprites
+Root
|-Child_1
| |--Child_1_of_Child_1
|-Child_2
in code its simple
Sprite* root = Sprite::create();
Sprite* Child_1 = Sprite::create();
Sprite* Child_1_of_Child_1 = Sprite::create();
Sprite* Child_2 = Sprite::create();
root->addChild(Child_1);
Child_1->addChild(Child_1_of_Child_1 );
root->addChild(Child_2);
i want to capture collision between Child_2 and Child_1_of_Child_1 sprites.
but what every i do its never capture it in the Child_1_of_Child_1
this is what i have in the update loop.
Rect r = Child_2->getBoundingBox();
Vec2 vr = Child_2->getPosition();
Vec2 newNodeSpaceVec = Child_1->convertToNodeSpace(vr);
//not working also
// Vec2 newNodeSpaceVec = Child_1->Child_1_of_Child_1->convertToNodeSpace(vr);
Rect NewRec(newNodeSpaceVec.x,newNodeSpaceVec.y,r.size.width,r.size.height);
//THIS iS ALLWAYS FALSE
if(Child_1->Child_1_of_Child_1->getBoundingBox().intersectsRect(NewRec))
{
}
now matter what i do even if i see the 2 sprites collide the if is never true.

For the structure you presented, try to use this:
Vec2 child1Pos = Child_1->getParent()->convertToWorldSpace(Child_1->getPosition());

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How to detect a hit inside the polygon shape, not the square texture in LibGDX+Box2d

I have an entity Actor defined by next code:
this.world = world;
this.texture = texture;
// Create the body.
BodyDef def = new BodyDef(); // (1) Give it some definition.
def.position.set(x, y + 0.5f); // (2) Position the body on the world
def.type = BodyDef.BodyType.DynamicBody;
body = world.createBody(def); // (3) Create the body.
// Now give it a shape.
PolygonShape box = new PolygonShape(); // (1) We will make a polygon.
Vector2[] vertices = new Vector2[6];
vertices[0] = new Vector2(0.04f , 0.24f );
vertices[1] = new Vector2(0.64f , 1.18f );
vertices[2] = new Vector2(1.66f , 1.8f);
vertices[3] = new Vector2(1.92f , 1.52f);
vertices[4] = new Vector2(1.18f , 0.66f);
vertices[5] = new Vector2(0.26f , 0.03f);
box.set(vertices); // (4) And put them in the shape.
fixture = body.createFixture(box, 3); // (5) Create the fixture.
fixture.setUserData("actor"); // (6) And set the user data to enemy.
box.dispose(); // (7) Destroy the shape when you don't need it.
// Position the actor in the screen by converting the meters to pixels.
setPosition((x - 0.5f) * PIXELS_IN_METER, y * PIXELS_IN_METER);
setSize(PIXELS_IN_METER, PIXELS_IN_METER);
this.setDebug(true);
When I add last line setDebug my Actor abject is surrounded by a squared shape and my hits affect to this square and not the REAL shape defined by my poligon. This hit detection is catch by touchDown (InputProcessor) event:
public boolean touchDown(int screenX, int screenY, int pointer, int button) {
Vector2 coord = stage.screenToStageCoordinates(new Vector2((float)screenX,(float)screenY));
Actor hitActor = stage.hit(coord.x,coord.y,false);
if(hitActor != null) {
Gdx.app.log("myapp", "hit!!!!!");
}
return true;
}
What am I doing wrong? I just only want to detect hit on my game actor items.
Thank you in advance!!
Scene2D actor and Box2D body are not the same - if you want to see your body being debug you have to use Box2D's DebugRenderer
//creating debug renderer in show method or as class'es field
Box2DDebugRenderer debugRenderer = new Box2DDebugRenderer();
//render() method
debugRenderer.render(world, camera.combined);
Then you'll see that your body's shape and actor's shape are not the same. What's more they probably won't have same position since you are not updateing your actor's position due to body (you should do this in actor's act overriden method by using something like setPosition(body.getPosition().x, body.getPosition().y); - remember that origin for actor is on its left bottom corner when the body has it's origin at the center!).
Unfortunately actor can be rectangular only so it is not possible to create same shape as for body. However you can use you actor as bounding box and set it's size to overlap whole body (it will be changing if body will rotate!).
Another solution is not to catch listener on body but to implement some mechanism like creating a body after click and check collision

Update color data dynamically in cocos2d-x

I want to create some effects in cocos2d-x by updating raw color data of sprite, does cocos2d-x supply any ways to do that?
Update: My buffer is 4-bytes (A-R-G-B) for each pixels, viewport dimensions are 640x480. So, the buffer has 640 * 480 * 4 = 1228800 bytes in length and I update its content frequently.
This solution regenerates the texture each time it is changed.
Note: the texture in this code uses the format RGBA - not ARGB.
The data(/texel) array m_TextureData and the sprite are allocated only once but the Texture2D object has to be released and recreated every time which might be a performance issue.
Note: the class names are the new ones from Cocos2d-x 3.1.x. In the main loop there's an alternative part for 2.2.x users. To use that one you have to use also the old class names (like ccColor4B, CCTexture2D, CCSprite).
in header:
Color4B *m_TextureData;
Texture2D *m_Texture;
Sprite *m_Sprite;
in implementation:
int w = 640; // width of texture
int h = 480; // height of texture
m_TextureData = new Color4B[w * h];
set colors directly - e.g.:
Color4B white;
white.r = 255;
white.g = 255;
white.b = 255;
white.a = 255;
m_TextureData[i] = white; // i is an index running from 0 to w*h-1
use data to initialize texture:
CCSize contentSize;
contentSize.width = w;
contentSize.height = h;
m_Texture = new Texture2D;
m_Texture->initWithData(m_TextureData, kCCTexture2DPixelFormat_RGBA8888, w, h, contentSize);
create a Sprite with this texture:
m_Sprite = Sprite::createWithTexture(m_Texture);
m_Sprite->retain();
add m_Sprite to your scene
in main loop:
to change color/texels of texture dynamically modify m_TextureData:
m_TextureData[i] = ...;
in Cocos2d-x 2.x:
In 2.2.x you actually have to release the old texture and create a new one:
m_Texture->release(); // make sure that ccGLDeleteTexture() is called internally to prevent memory leakage
m_Texture = new Texture2D;
m_Texture->initWithData(m_TextureData, kCCTexture2DPixelFormat_RGBA8888, w, h, contentSize);
m_Sprite->setTexture(m_Texture); // update sprite with new texture
in Cocos2d-x 3.1.x
m_Texture->updateWithData(m_TextureData, 0, 0, w, h);
Later, don't forget to clean up.
in destructor:
m_Sprite->release();
m_Texture->release();
delete [] m_TextureData;

I get glitches and crashes trying to use WebGL for drawing sprites

I am converting my sprite drawing function from canvas 2d to webgl.
As I am new to webgl (and openGL too), I learned from this tuto http://games.greggman.com/game/webgl-image-processing/ and I did copy many lines from it, and some other ones I found.
At last I got it working, but there are some issues. For some reason, some images are never drawn though other ones are, then I get big random black squares on the screen, and finally it makes firefox crash...
I am tearing my hair out trying to solve these problems, but I am just lost... I have to ask for some help.
Please someone have a look at my code and tell me if you see where I made errors.
The vertex shader and fragment shader :
<script id="2d-vertex-shader" type="x-shader/x-vertex">
attribute vec2 a_position;
attribute vec2 a_texCoord;
uniform vec2 u_resolution;
uniform vec2 u_translation;
uniform vec2 u_rotation;
varying vec2 v_texCoord;
void main()
{
// Rotate the position
vec2 rotatedPosition = vec2(
a_position.x * u_rotation.y + a_position.y * u_rotation.x,
a_position.y * u_rotation.y - a_position.x * u_rotation.x);
// Add in the translation.
vec2 position = rotatedPosition + u_translation;
// convert the rectangle from pixels to 0.0 to 1.0
vec2 zeroToOne = a_position / u_resolution;
// convert from 0->1 to 0->2
vec2 zeroToTwo = zeroToOne * 2.0;
// convert from 0->2 to -1->+1 (clipspace)
vec2 clipSpace = zeroToTwo - 1.0;
gl_Position = vec4(clipSpace * vec2(1, -1), 0, 1);
// pass the texCoord to the fragment shader
// The GPU will interpolate this value between points
v_texCoord = a_texCoord;
}
</script>
<script id="2d-fragment-shader" type="x-shader/x-fragment">
precision mediump float;
// our texture
uniform sampler2D u_image;
// the texCoords passed in from the vertex shader.
varying vec2 v_texCoord;
void main()
{
// Look up a color from the texture.
gl_FragColor = texture2D(u_image, v_texCoord);
}
</script>
I use several layered canvas to avoid wasting ressources redrawing the big background and foreground at every frame while they never change. So my canvas are in liste_canvas[] and contexts are in liste_ctx[], c is the id ("background"/"game"/"foreground"/"infos"). Here is their creation code :
// Get A WebGL context
liste_canvas[c] = document.createElement("canvas") ;
document.getElementById('game_div').appendChild(liste_canvas[c]);
liste_ctx[c] = liste_canvas[c].getContext('webgl',{premultipliedAlpha:false}) || liste_canvas[c].getContext('experimental-webgl',{premultipliedAlpha:false});
liste_ctx[c].viewport(0, 0, game.res_w, game.res_h);
// setup a GLSL program
liste_ctx[c].vertexShader = createShaderFromScriptElement(liste_ctx[c], "2d-vertex-shader");
liste_ctx[c].fragmentShader = createShaderFromScriptElement(liste_ctx[c], "2d-fragment-shader");
liste_ctx[c].program = createProgram(liste_ctx[c], [liste_ctx[c].vertexShader, liste_ctx[c].fragmentShader]);
liste_ctx[c].useProgram(liste_ctx[c].program);
And here is my sprite drawing function.
My images are stored in a list too, sprites[], with a string name as id.
They store their origin, which is not necessarily their real center, as .orgn_x and .orgn_y.
function draw_sprite( id_canvas , d_sprite , d_x , d_y , d_rotation , d_scale , d_opacity )
{
if( id_canvas=="" ){ id_canvas = "game" ; }
if( !d_scale ){ d_scale = 1 ; }
if( !d_rotation ){ d_rotation = 0 ; }
if( render_mode == "webgl" )
{
c = id_canvas ;
// look up where the vertex data needs to go.
var positionLocation = liste_ctx[c].getAttribLocation(liste_ctx[c].program, "a_position");
var texCoordLocation = liste_ctx[c].getAttribLocation(liste_ctx[c].program, "a_texCoord");
// provide texture coordinates for the rectangle.
var texCoordBuffer = liste_ctx[c].createBuffer();
liste_ctx[c].bindBuffer(liste_ctx[c].ARRAY_BUFFER, texCoordBuffer);
liste_ctx[c].bufferData(liste_ctx[c].ARRAY_BUFFER, new Float32Array([
0.0, 0.0,
1.0, 0.0,
0.0, 1.0,
0.0, 1.0,
1.0, 0.0,
1.0, 1.0]), liste_ctx[c].STATIC_DRAW);
liste_ctx[c].enableVertexAttribArray(texCoordLocation);
liste_ctx[c].vertexAttribPointer(texCoordLocation, 2, liste_ctx[c].FLOAT, false, 0, 0);
// Create a texture.
var texture = liste_ctx[c].createTexture();
liste_ctx[c].bindTexture(liste_ctx[c].TEXTURE_2D, texture);
// Set the parameters so we can render any size image.
liste_ctx[c].texParameteri(liste_ctx[c].TEXTURE_2D, liste_ctx[c].TEXTURE_WRAP_S, liste_ctx[c].CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
liste_ctx[c].texParameteri(liste_ctx[c].TEXTURE_2D, liste_ctx[c].TEXTURE_WRAP_T, liste_ctx[c].CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
liste_ctx[c].texParameteri(liste_ctx[c].TEXTURE_2D, liste_ctx[c].TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, liste_ctx[c].LINEAR);
liste_ctx[c].texParameteri(liste_ctx[c].TEXTURE_2D, liste_ctx[c].TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, liste_ctx[c].LINEAR);
// Upload the image into the texture.
liste_ctx[c].texImage2D(liste_ctx[c].TEXTURE_2D, 0, liste_ctx[c].RGBA, liste_ctx[c].RGBA, liste_ctx[c].UNSIGNED_BYTE, sprites[d_sprite] );
// set the resolution
var resolutionLocation = liste_ctx[c].getUniformLocation(liste_ctx[c].program, "u_resolution");
liste_ctx[c].uniform2f(resolutionLocation, liste_canvas[c].width, liste_canvas[c].height);
// Create a buffer and put a single clipspace rectangle in it (2 triangles)
var buffer = liste_ctx[c].createBuffer();
liste_ctx[c].bindBuffer(liste_ctx[c].ARRAY_BUFFER, buffer);
liste_ctx[c].enableVertexAttribArray(positionLocation);
liste_ctx[c].vertexAttribPointer(positionLocation, 2, liste_ctx[c].FLOAT, false, 0, 0);
// then I calculate the coordinates of the four points of the rectangle
// taking their origin and scale into account
// I cut this part as it is large and has no importance here
// and at last, we draw
liste_ctx[c].bufferData(liste_ctx[c].ARRAY_BUFFER, new Float32Array([
topleft_x , topleft_y ,
topright_x , topright_y ,
bottomleft_x , bottomleft_y ,
bottomleft_x , bottomleft_y ,
topright_x , topright_y ,
bottomright_x , bottomright_y ]), liste_ctx[c].STATIC_DRAW);
// draw
liste_ctx[c].drawArrays(liste_ctx[c].TRIANGLES, 0, 6);
}
}
I did not find any way to port ctx.globalAlpha to webgl by the way. If someone knows how I could add it in my code, I woud be thanksful for that too.
Please help. Thanks.
I don't know why things are crashing but just a few random comments.
Only create buffers and textures once.
Currently the code is creating buffers and textures every time you call draw_sprite. Instead you should be creating them at initialization time just once and then using the created buffers and textures later. Similarly you should look up the attribute and uniform locations at initialization time and then use them when you draw.
It's possible firefox is crashing because it's running out of memory since you're creating new buffers and new textures every time you call draw_sprite
I believe it's more common to make a single buffer with a unit square it in and then use matrix math to move that square where you want it. See http://games.greggman.com/game/webgl-2d-matrices/ for some help with matrix math.
If you go that route then you only need to call all the buffer related stuff once.
Even if you don't use matrix math you can still add translation and scale to your shader, then just make one buffer with a unit rectangle (as in
gl.bufferData(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, new Float32Array([
0, 0,
1, 0,
0, 1,
0, 1,
1, 0,
1, 1]), gl.STATIC_DRAW)
After that then just translate it where you want it and scale it to the size you want it drawn.
In fact, if you go the matrix route it would be really easy to simulate the 2d context's matrix functions ctx.translate, ctx.rotate, ctx.scale etc...
The code might be easier to follow, and type, if you pulled the context into a local variable.
Instead of stuff like
liste_ctx[c].bindBuffer(liste_ctx[c].ARRAY_BUFFER, buffer);
liste_ctx[c].enableVertexAttribArray(positionLocation);
liste_ctx[c].vertexAttribPointer(positionLocation, 2, liste_ctx[c].FLOAT, false, 0, 0);
You could do this
var gl = liste_ctx[c];
gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, buffer);
gl.enableVertexAttribArray(positionLocation);
gl.vertexAttribPointer(positionLocation, 2, gl.FLOAT, false, 0, 0);
Storing things on the context is going to get tricky
This code
liste_ctx[c].vertexShader = createShaderFromScriptElement(liste_ctx[c], "2d-vertex-shader");
liste_ctx[c].fragmentShader = createShaderFromScriptElement(liste_ctx[c], "2d-fragment-shader");
liste_ctx[c].program = createProgram(liste_ctx[c], [liste_ctx[c].vertexShader, liste_ctx[c].fragmentShader]);
Makes it look like you're going to only have a single vertexshader, a single fragment shader and single program. Maybe you are but it's pretty common in WebGL to have several shaders and programs.
For globalAlpha first you need to turn on blending.
gl.enable(gl.BLEND);
And you need to tell it how to blend. To be the same as the canvas 2d context you
need to use pre-multiplied alpha math so
gl.blendFunc(gl.ONE, gl.ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
Then you need to multiply the color the shader draws by an alpha value. For example
<script id="2d-fragment-shader" type="x-shader/x-fragment">
precision mediump float;
// our texture
uniform sampler2D u_image;
// global alpha
uniform float u_globalAlpha;
// the texCoords passed in from the vertex shader.
varying vec2 v_texCoord;
void main()
{
// Look up a color from the texture.
vec4 color = texture2D(u_image, v_texCoord);
// Multiply the color by u_globalAlpha
gl_FragColor = color * u_globalAlpha;
}
</script>
Then you'll need to set u_globalAlpha. At init time look up it's location
var globalAlphaLocation = gl.getUniformLocation(program, "u_globalAlpha");
And at draw time set it
gl.uniform1f(globalAlphaLocation, someValueFrom0to1);
Personally I usually use a vec4 and call it u_colorMult
<script id="2d-fragment-shader" type="x-shader/x-fragment">
precision mediump float;
// our texture
uniform sampler2D u_image;
// colorMult
uniform float u_colorMult;
// the texCoords passed in from the vertex shader.
varying vec2 v_texCoord;
void main()
{
// Look up a color from the texture.
gl_FragColor = texture2D(u_image, v_texCoord) * u_colorMult;
}
</script>
Then I can tint my sprites for example to make the sprite draw in red just use
glUniform4fv(colorMultLocation, [1, 0, 0, 1]);
It also means I can easily draw in solid colors. Create a 1x1 pixel solid white texture. Anytime I want to draw in a solid color I just bind that texture and set u_colorMult to the color I want to draw in.

WebGL: drawArrays: attribs not setup correctly

Here's my vertex shader:
attribute vec3 aVertexPosition;
attribute vec4 aVertexColor;
attribute float type;
uniform mat4 uMVMatrix;
uniform mat4 uPMatrix;
varying vec4 vColor;
void main(void) {
gl_Position = uPMatrix * uMVMatrix * vec4(aVertexPosition, 1.0);
vColor = aVertexColor;
if(type > 0.0) {
} else {
}
}
What I want to do is pretty simple, just capture a float value named type and use it for logic operates.
The problem is, when I try to use it in Javascript, the error comes:
shaderProgram.textureCoordAttribute = gl.getAttribLocation(shaderProgram, "type");
gl.enableVertexAttribArray(shaderProgram.textureCoordAttribute);
WebGL: INVALID_OPERATION: drawArrays: attribs not setup correctly main.js:253
WebGL: INVALID_OPERATION: drawArrays: attribs not setup correctly main.js:267
WebGL: INVALID_OPERATION: drawElements: attribs not setup correctly
The output of getAttribLocation is meaningful, all of them are equal greater than 0.
================= UPDATE ===================
Here's my whole project code:
https://gist.github.com/royguo/5873503
Explanation:
index.html Shaders script are here.
main.js Start the WebGL application and draw scene.
shaders.js Load shaders and bind attributes.
buffers.js Init vertex and color buffers.
utils.js Common used utils.
Here is a link to a gist with the files I updated to get the type attribute working.
If you search for //ADDED CODE you should be able to view every change I had to make to get it working.
In addition to enabling the objectTypeAttribute you have to create an array buffer for each object you are drawing:
triangleObjectTypeBuffer = gl.createBuffer();
gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, triangleObjectTypeBuffer);
objectTypes = [
1.0, 1.0, 0.0
];
gl.bufferData(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, new Float32Array(objectTypes), gl.STATIC_DRAW);
triangleObjectTypeBuffer.itemSize = 1;
triangleObjectTypeBuffer.numItems = 3;
And bind that array buffer for each object before you draw the object:
gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, triangleObjectTypeBuffer);
gl.vertexAttribPointer(shaderProgram.objectTypeAttribute, triangleObjectTypeBuffer.itemSize, gl.FLOAT, false, 0, 0);
You probably already tried this and accidentally went wrong somewhere along the way.

HTML5: Inverse text-color on canvas

I want to draw text on a canvas in the inverse color of the background (to make sure the text is readible no matter the background color). I believe in oldskool bitblt-ing, this was an XOR operation.
How to do this?
Update: most of the newer browsers now support the blending mode "difference" which can achieve the same result.
context.globalCompositeOperation = "difference";
Updated demo.
Old answer:
One should think that the XOR mode for composition would do this, but unfortunately canvas' XOR only XORs the alpha bits.
By applying the following code we can however receive a result such as this:
You can make an extension to the canvas like this:
CanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype.fillInversedText =
function(txt, x, y) {
//code - see below
}
Now you can call it on the context as the normal fillText, but with a slight change:
ctx.fillInversedText(txt, x, y);
For this to work we do the following first - measure text. Currently we can only calculate width of text and then assume the height. This may or may not work well as fonts can be very tall and so forth. Luckily this will change in the future, but for now:
var tw = this.measureText(txt).width;
var th = parseInt(ctx.font, '10');
th = (th === 0) ? 10 : th; //assume default if no font and size is set
Next thing we need to do is to setup an off-screen canvas to draw the text we want ot invert:
var co = document.createElement('canvas');
co.width = tw;
co.height = th;
Then draw the actual text. Color does not matter as we are only interested in the alpha channel for this canvas:
var octx = co.getContext('2d');
octx.font = this.font;
octx.textBaseline = 'top';
octx.fillText(txt, 0, 0);
Then we extract the pixel buffers for the area we want to draw the inverted text as well as all the pixels for the off-screen canvas which now contains our text:
var ddata = this.getImageData(x, y, tw, th);
var sdata = octx.getImageData(0, 0, tw, th);
var dd = ddata.data; //cache for increased speed
var ds = sdata.data;
var len = ds.length;
And then we invert each pixel where alpha channel for pixel is greater than 0.
for (var i = 0; i < len; i += 4) {
if (ds[i + 3] > 0) {
dd[i] = 255 - dd[i];
dd[i + 1] = 255 - dd[i + 1];
dd[i + 2] = 255 - dd[i + 2];
}
}
Finally put back the inverted image:
this.putImageData(ddata, x, y);
This may seem as a lot of operations, but it goes pretty fast.
Demo (warning if you are sensitive to flicker)
(the psychedelic background is just to have some variations as fiddle needs external images and most are prevented by CORS when we use pixel manipulation).
I've removed my old answer, as it did not solve the question. As of recently, there are new globalCompositeOperations that do all kinds of great things. I've created an example that shows how to obtain inverted text. In case that link breaks, the method is essentially this:
ctx.globalCompositeOperation = "difference";
ctx.fillStyle = "white";
//draw inverted things here
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRenderingContext2D/globalCompositeOperation