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kamziro
kamziro

Reputation: 8160

glReadPixels and alpha channels returning 1.0

I'm reading pixel data from a framebuffer, and everything seems to work, except for the alpha value, which is always 1.0

  GLfloat lebuf[areasize * 4];
  glReadPixels(xstart, ystart, partw, parth, GL_RGBA, GL_FLOAT, lebuf);

I've set the window creation code to support an alpha channel:

  SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_ALPHA_SIZE, 8);

Is there any other place I should look at for checking why the alpha channel seems to be 1.0 all the time? Better yet, is there another way (other than glReadPixels) to get the texture into client memory, from the framebuffer?

edit: this is how I clear the buffer:

 glClearColor(0,0,0,0);
 glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3496

Answers (3)

Subrata Laha
Subrata Laha

Reputation: 1

Please use the following line.. problem will solved.

glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_RGBA | GLUT_ALPHA | GLUT_DEPTH | GLUT_STENCIL);

Upvotes: 0

Dan
Dan

Reputation: 1486

If you are using GLUT, remember you have to set your main window as follows:

glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_RGBA | GLUT_ALPHA | GLUT_DEPTH | GLUT_STENCIL);

otherwise glReadPixels will read always alpha channel = 1.

Upvotes: 3

tibur
tibur

Reputation: 11636

Could you check:

  • That you SDL has accepted your format (glGetIntegerv(GL_ALPHA_BITS, bits))?
  • That your color clear is not 1 (glClearColor). What if you clear to 0.5 and retrieve the buffer before rendering. Do you retrieve 0.5?
  • That you alpha buffer is not write locked (glColorMask(GL_TRUE,GL_TRUE,GL_TRUE,GL_TRUE))?
  • That you correctly clear your alpha buffer at the end of each frame?
  • That your blend function will write the correct alpha value to the buffer?

Upvotes: 6

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