OpenGL: scale then translate? and how?

Question

I\'ve got some 2D geometry. I want to take some bounding rect around my geometry, and then render a smaller version of it somewhere else on the plane. Here\'s more or less t

Answer 1

I haven't played with OpenGL ES, just a bit with OpenGL.

It sounds like you want to transform from a different position as opposed to the origin, not sure, but can you try to do the transforms and draws that bit within glPushMatrix() and glPopMatrix() ?

e.g.

// source and dest are arbitrary rectangles.
float scaleX = dest.width / source.width;
float scaleY = dest.height / source.height;
float translateX = dest.x - source.x;
float translateY = dest.y - source.y;

glPushMatrix();
  glScalef(scaleX, scaleY, 0.0);
  glTranslatef(translateX, translateY, 0.0);
  // Draw geometry in question with its normal verts.
  //as if it were drawn from 0,0
glPopMatrix();

Here's a simple Processing sketch I wrote to illustrate the point:

import processing.opengl.*;
import javax.media.opengl.*;


void setup() {
  size(500, 400, OPENGL);
}

void draw() {
  background(255);
  PGraphicsOpenGL pgl = (PGraphicsOpenGL) g;
  GL gl = pgl.beginGL();  


  gl.glPushMatrix();
    //transform the 'pivot'
    gl.glTranslatef(100,100,0);
    gl.glScalef(10,10,10);
    //draw something from the 'pivot'
    gl.glColor3f(0, 0.77, 0);
    drawTriangle(gl);
  gl.glPopMatrix();
  //matrix poped, we're back to orginin(0,0,0), continue as normal
  gl.glColor3f(0.77, 0, 0);
  drawTriangle(gl);
  pgl.endGL();
}

void drawTriangle(GL gl){
  gl.glBegin(GL.GL_TRIANGLES);
  gl.glVertex2i(10, 0);
  gl.glVertex2i(0, 20);
  gl.glVertex2i(20, 20);
  gl.glEnd();
}

Here is an image of the sketch running, the same green triangle is drawn, with translation and scale applied, then the red one, outsie the push/pop 'block', so it is not affected by the transform:

HTH, George