Hi, I’m trying to port an XML program into WebGL. It consists of thousands of coloured line primitives moving around in 3D space, sach as can be seen in this video:http://vimeo.com/28442466.
I’ve modified the code I found in this tutorial:http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?p=28 to draw lines instead of triangles. The problem is, the lines don’t show up on the screen. When I modified the tutorial to draw only a couple of lines they showed up OK. What am I doing wrong?
I apologise for dumping the whole code on you but as I’m a rank beginner I have no idea of which part would be relevant.
<html>
<head>
<title>Lines2</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<script type="text/javascript" src="glMatrix-0.9.5.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="Line.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="Rand.js"></script>
<script id="shader-fs" type="x-shader/x-fragment">
#ifdef GL_ES
precision highp float;
#endif
void main(void) {
gl_FragColor = vec4(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
}
</script>
<script id="shader-vs" type="x-shader/x-vertex">
attribute vec3 aVertexPosition;
uniform mat4 uMVMatrix;
uniform mat4 uPMatrix;
void main(void) {
gl_Position = uPMatrix * uMVMatrix * vec4(aVertexPosition, 1.0);
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var auto = true;
var LINES = 8000;
var BOUNDS = 100;
var FACTOR = 10.0;
var leader, viewer, viewing = 1, autocount = 0;
var centreX, centreY, centreZ;
var centreOX, centreOY, centreOZ;
var time = new Date();
var random = new Rand();
var line = new Array(LINES);
var gl;
function initGL(canvas) {
try {
gl = canvas.getContext("experimental-webgl");
gl.viewportWidth = canvas.width;
gl.viewportHeight = canvas.height;
} catch (e) {
}
if (!gl) {
alert("Could not initialise WebGL, sorry :-(");
}
}
function getShader(gl, id) {
var shaderScript = document.getElementById(id);
if (!shaderScript) {
return null;
}
var str = "";
var k = shaderScript.firstChild;
while (k) {
if (k.nodeType == 3) {
str += k.textContent;
}
k = k.nextSibling;
}
var shader;
if (shaderScript.type == "x-shader/x-fragment") {
shader = gl.createShader(gl.FRAGMENT_SHADER);
} else if (shaderScript.type == "x-shader/x-vertex") {
shader = gl.createShader(gl.VERTEX_SHADER);
} else {
return null;
}
gl.shaderSource(shader, str);
gl.compileShader(shader);
if (!gl.getShaderParameter(shader, gl.COMPILE_STATUS)) {
alert(gl.getShaderInfoLog(shader));
return null;
}
return shader;
}
var shaderProgram;
function initShaders() {
var fragmentShader = getShader(gl, "shader-fs");
var vertexShader = getShader(gl, "shader-vs");
shaderProgram = gl.createProgram();
gl.attachShader(shaderProgram, vertexShader);
gl.attachShader(shaderProgram, fragmentShader);
gl.linkProgram(shaderProgram);
if (!gl.getProgramParameter(shaderProgram, gl.LINK_STATUS)) {
alert("Could not initialise shaders");
}
gl.useProgram(shaderProgram);
shaderProgram.vertexPositionAttribute = gl.getAttribLocation(shaderProgram, "aVertexPosition");
gl.enableVertexAttribArray(shaderProgram.vertexPositionAttribute);
shaderProgram.pMatrixUniform = gl.getUniformLocation(shaderProgram, "uPMatrix");
shaderProgram.mvMatrixUniform = gl.getUniformLocation(shaderProgram, "uMVMatrix");
}
var mvMatrix = mat4.create();
var pMatrix = mat4.create();
function setMatrixUniforms() {
gl.uniformMatrix4fv(shaderProgram.pMatrixUniform, false, pMatrix);
gl.uniformMatrix4fv(shaderProgram.mvMatrixUniform, false, mvMatrix);
}
var lineVertexPositionBuffer;
function initBuffers() {
lineVertexPositionBuffer = gl.createBuffer();
gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, lineVertexPositionBuffer);
var vertices = new Array(LINES * 6);
var milliSeconds = ((time.getHours() * 3600) + (time.getMinutes() * 60) + time.getSeconds() * 1000) + time.getMilliseconds();
for (j = 0; j < milliSeconds; j++)
{
random.Get();
}
// Initialize the lines
for (var j = 0; j < LINES; j++)
{
line[j] = new Line();
line[j].positionX = (BOUNDS * random.Get());
line[j].positionY = (BOUNDS * random.Get());
line[j].positionZ = (BOUNDS * random.Get());
line[j].positionOX = line[j].positionX;
line[j].positionOY = line[j].positionY;
line[j].positionOZ = line[j].positionZ;
line[j].attraction = ((0.2 / (FACTOR * 5)) + ((0.1 / (FACTOR * 5)) * random.Get()));
line[j].velocity = ((1 / FACTOR) + ((0.5 / FACTOR) * random.Get()));
line[j].speedX = (random.Get() * line[j].velocity);
line[j].speedY = (random.Get() * line[j].velocity);
line[j].speedZ = (random.Get() * line[j].velocity);
line[j].red = (0.5 + ((random.Get() * 0.5)));
line[j].green = (0.5 + ((random.Get() * 0.5)));
line[j].blue = (0.5 + ((random.Get() * 0.5)));
line[j].NormalizeVelocity();
centreX += (line[j].positionOX / LINES);
centreY += (line[j].positionOY / LINES);
centreZ += (line[j].positionOZ / LINES);
vertices[j * 6] = line[j].positionOX / 1280;
vertices[(j * 6) + 1] = line[j].positionOY / 1280;
vertices[(j * 6) + 2] = line[j].positionOZ / 1280;
vertices[(j * 6) + 3] = line[j].positionX;
vertices[(j * 6) + 4] = line[j].positionY;
vertices[(j * 6) + 5] = line[j].positionZ;
}
leader = Math.round((LINES / 2) + (random.Get() * (LINES / 2)));
viewer = Math.round((LINES / 2) + (random.Get() * (LINES / 2)));
gl.bufferData(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, new Float32Array(vertices), gl.STATIC_DRAW);
lineVertexPositionBuffer.itemSize = 3;
lineVertexPositionBuffer.numItems = 2 * LINES;
}
function drawScene() {
gl.viewport(0, 0, gl.viewportWidth, gl.viewportHeight);
gl.clear(gl.COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | gl.DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
mat4.perspective(45, gl.viewportWidth / gl.viewportHeight, 0.1, 1000.0, pMatrix);
mat4.identity(mvMatrix);
gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, lineVertexPositionBuffer);
gl.vertexAttribPointer(shaderProgram.vertexPositionAttribute, lineVertexPositionBuffer.itemSize, gl.FLOAT, false, 0, 0);
setMatrixUniforms();
gl.drawArrays(gl.LINES, 0, lineVertexPositionBuffer.numItems);
}
function webGLStart() {
var canvas = document.getElementById("lines-canvas");
initGL(canvas);
initShaders();
initBuffers();
gl.clearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
gl.enable(gl.DEPTH_TEST);
drawScene();
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="webGLStart();">
<canvas id="lines-canvas" style="border: none;" width="1280" height="768"></canvas>
</body>
</html>
Thank you in advance for any insights you may have.