Question

Whenever I attempt to render a textured quad, I end up with a triangular section of the texture distorted:
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The texture is a PNG created in GIMP, and I’ve tried two seperate methods of loading the texture (both from Apple’s own sample code). Each method of loading the texture produced different results (I don’t know if it is different default settings, or if there is a problem with the texture), but I couldn’t get either to render proper.

I’ve tried setting up my indices/verticles/texices in multiple different ways, from suggestions posted in Fastest way to draw quads in OpenGL ES? yet still no luck.

What could I be missing?

Code to Load Texture

- (GLuint)setupTexture:(NSString *)fileName {    
    CGImageRef spriteImage = [UIImage imageNamed:fileName].CGImage;
    if (!spriteImage) {
        NSLog(@"Failed to load image %@", fileName);
        exit(1);
    }
    size_t width = CGImageGetWidth(spriteImage);
    size_t height = CGImageGetHeight(spriteImage);
    GLubyte * spriteData = (GLubyte *) calloc(width*height*4, sizeof(GLubyte));
    CGContextRef spriteContext = CGBitmapContextCreate(spriteData, width, height, 8, width*4, 
    CGImageGetColorSpace(spriteImage), kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast);    
    CGContextDrawImage(spriteContext, CGRectMake(0, 0, width, height), spriteImage);
    CGContextRelease(spriteContext);
    GLuint texName;
    glGenTextures(1, &texName);
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texName);
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST); 
    glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA, width, height, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, spriteData);
    free(spriteData);        
    return texName;    
}

Texture Coordinates and Verticles

const GLfloat texices[] =
    { 0,1,
      1,1,
      0,0,
      1,0 };

glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
glUniform1i(_texturedTextureUniformSlot, 0);
glVertexAttribPointer(_texturedTextureSlot, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, texices);

GLfloat vertices[] = {-1, -1, 0, //bottom left corner
                  -1,  1, 0, //top left corner
                   1,  1, 0, //top right corner
                   1, -1, 0}; // bottom right rocner

GLubyte indices[] = {0,1,2, // first triangle (bottom left - top left - top right)
                 0,2,3}; // second triangle (bottom left - top right - bottom right)

glVertexAttribPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, 0, vertices);
glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, 6, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, indices);

Answer 1

It looks like your texture coordinates may be wrong (notice the texture appears to be wrapping around the left side).

Here is a snippet of code that I’ve used in the past:

const float quadPositions[] = {  1.0,  1.0, 0.0, 
                                -1.0,  1.0, 0.0, 
                                -1.0, -1.0, 0.0, 
                                -1.0, -1.0, 0.0, 
                                 1.0, -1.0, 0.0, 
                                 1.0,  1.0, 0.0 };
const float quadTexcoords[] = { 1.0, 1.0, 
                                0.0, 1.0, 
                                0.0, 0.0, 
                                0.0, 0.0, 
                                1.0, 0.0, 
                                1.0, 1.0 };

// stop using VBO
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);

// setup buffer offsets
glVertexAttribPointer(ATTRIB_VERTEX, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 3*sizeof(float), quadPositions);
glVertexAttribPointer(ATTRIB_TEXCOORD0, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 2*sizeof(float), quadTexcoords);

// ensure the proper arrays are enabled
glEnableVertexAttribArray(ATTRIB_VERTEX);
glEnableVertexAttribArray(ATTRIB_TEXCOORD0);

// draw
glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, 2*3);

That should draw a two triangles at z=0. You’ll want to setup your projection from -1 to 1 in width and height.

Edit:

Here’s a working version of your code:

const GLfloat texices[] = { 0, 0,
                            0, 1,
                            1, 1,
                            1, 0 };


const GLfloat vertices[] = { -1, -1, 0,  // bottom left corner
                             -1,  1, 0,  // top left corner
                              1,  1, 0,  // top right corner
                              1, -1, 0}; // bottom right corner

const GLubyte indices[] = { 0, 2, 1,     // first triangle (bottom left - top left - top right)
                            0, 3, 2 };


// ensure no VBOs or IBOs are bound
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);    

glVertexAttribPointer(ATTRIB_VERTEX, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 3*sizeof(float), vertices);
glVertexAttribPointer(ATTRIB_TEXCOORD0, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 2*sizeof(float), texices);

// ensure the proper arrays are enabled
glEnableVertexAttribArray(ATTRIB_VERTEX);
glEnableVertexAttribArray(ATTRIB_TEXCOORD0);

glDisable(GL_CULL_FACE);

glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, 6, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, indices);