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Help => Graphics => Topic started by: asphyxiac on November 11, 2009, 02:37:10 am

Title: Draw Depth
Post by: asphyxiac on November 11, 2009, 02:37:10 am

Hi, how do I set the draw depth?

Do I have to glEnable the depth buffer and manually change the matrix?

Title: Draw Depth
Post by: RixCoder on November 11, 2009, 05:35:45 am

i wrote a simple render system that i sent objects to with a z value that it would sort before rendering.

SFML as far as i know has no built in method of doing it in the window draw function.

Title: Draw Depth
Post by: Laurent on November 11, 2009, 08:32:53 am

That's true, there's no depth in SFML. The depth is simply given by the drawing order.

Title: Re: Draw Depth
Post by: Uncle_Mike on November 21, 2012, 08:09:15 pm

Sorry, in SFML 2.0 no depth too?  It is a big shortcoming.  Very often I can not observe sequence of sprite output to screen according to z-position...

Title: Re: Draw Depth
Post by: Laurent on November 21, 2012, 08:22:53 pm

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in SFML 2.0 no depth too?

No depth in SFML 2.0, sorry.

Title: Re: Draw Depth
Post by: didii on November 21, 2012, 08:58:53 pm

Quote from: Uncle_Mike on November 21, 2012, 08:09:15 pm

Sorry, in SFML 2.0 no depth too?  It is a big shortcoming.  Very often I can not observe sequence of sprite output to screen according to z-position...

Let me remind you that SFML is a "low level" language and not anywhere near an engine :)
As RixCoder says: you should be able to implement it yourself. It is just a matter of which is drawn last on screen.

Title: Re: Draw Depth
Post by: masskiller on November 21, 2012, 10:01:50 pm

Raw OpenGL or a proper 3D rendering library/engine that is compatible with SFML can do the job, so there's really no need for it to be implemented in SFML (it was not meant for it anyway).