CODEWITHSUNDEEP
iosrotationshadermetal
Chris
Chris

Reputation: 556

Why is rotating this prism in iOS Metal not rendering correctly?

I've set up a test project for learning Metal on iOS to do some rendering, but I'm a bit stumped on how to get a prism rotating correctly about its y axis.

Here is the prism rendered without depth testing so all sides can be seen, so it looks like this part is at least correct:

enter image description here

These are the vertices:

static const float vertexData[] = {
     0.f,  1.f,  0.5f,
     1.f, -1.f,  0.f,
    -1.f, -1.f,  0.f,

     0.f,  1.f,  0.5f,
     1.f, -1.f,  1.f,
     1.f, -1.f,  0.f,

     0.f,  1.f,  0.5f,
    -1.f, -1.f,  1.f,
     1.f, -1.f,  1.f,

     0.f,  1.f,  0.5f,
    -1.f, -1.f,  0.f,
    -1.f, -1.f,  1.f
};

However, when I turn on rotation, this is what happens: https://www.dropbox.com/s/esg41j3ibncofox/prism_rotate.mov?dl=0

(The video has depth testing turned on). Why is the prism clipping like that (and/or what is it clipping through)? And it's not rotating about it's centre.

Here are how the MVP matrices are being calculated:

static simd::float3 viewEye = {0.f, 0.f, -2.f};
static simd::float3 viewCenter = {0.f, 0.f, 1.f};
static simd::float3 viewUp = {0.f, 1.f, 0.f};
static float fov = 45.f;

CGSize size = self.view.bounds.size;
Uniforms *uniforms = (Uniforms *)[uniformBuffer contents];
uniforms->view = AAPL::lookAt(viewEye, viewCenter, viewUp);
uniforms->projection = AAPL::perspective_fov(fov, size.width, size.height, 0.1f, 100.f);

uniforms->model = AAPL::translate(0.f, 0.f, 12.f) * AAPL::rotate(tAngle, 0.f, 1.f, 0.f);
tAngle += 0.5f;

The transform, lookAt, rotate, and perspective_fov functions are lifted straight from Apple sample code I used as reference.

Here is the shader:

typedef struct {
    float4 pos [[ position ]];
    half4 color;
    float mod;
} VertexOut;

vertex VertexOut basic_vertex(const device packed_float3* vertex_array [[ buffer(0) ]],
                              const device packed_float3* colors [[ buffer(1) ]],
                              constant Uniforms& uniform [[ buffer(2) ]],
                              uint vid [[ vertex_id ]],
                              uint iid [[ instance_id ]])
{
    float4 v = float4(vertex_array[vid], 1.f);
    float4x4 mvp_matrix = uniform.projection * uniform.view * uniform.model;

    VertexOut out;
    out.pos = v * mvp_matrix;
    uint colorIndex = vid / 3;
    out.color = half4(half3(colors[colorIndex]), 1.f);
    return out;
}

fragment half4 basic_fragment(VertexOut f [[ stage_in ]]) {
    return f.color;
}

Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 495

Answers (1)

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 556

Sigh.. The problem was in the multiplication order of the MVP matrix with the vertices in the shader.

So this:

out.pos = v * mvp_matrix;

should be:

out.pos = mvp_matrix * v;

For whatever reason, I'm used to row vectors as opposed to column vectors, and had myself convinced I was misunderstanding something about the clip region and/or the matrices themselves..

Upvotes: 3

Related Questions