Idea: Calculate Max Pixel Count for HOQs

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Idea: Calculate Max Pixel Count for HOQs

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This should be an easy project for a student.

Utilize the HOQ Wiki Entry http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Ha ... ixel_Count to design an algorithm that can estimate the pixel count for an Ogre::Billboard at various resolutions and camera field of views.
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Post by lodi »

Why would you use an occlusion query on a billboard? You can just run the vertices through the current projection matrix and then do a simple formula to get the area in normalised screen coordinates (which you can easily change to # of pixels, or leave it as a ratio of total screen area, which is probably what you wanted in the first place.)
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lodi wrote: You can just run the vertices through the current projection matrix and then do a simple formula to get the area in normalised screen coordinates.
The idea seems to be about applying it to things like lens flares, and then you need to know how much of it was, well, occluded..
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Think that the student will be rewarded with 4500$ for this, so it shouldn't be that easily done.
Besides, this year seems to be a lot of really useful projects for Ogre!
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Post by lodi »

Ahh yes, my bad. For some reason I was thinking only about using the pixel count for lod purposes, etc.

And I also agree that this isn't really worthy of a SoC project...
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Kencho wrote:Think that the student will be rewarded with 4500$ for this, so it shouldn't be that easily done.
Besides, this year seems to be a lot of really useful projects for Ogre!
Hey that's about 3 month's rent in Seattle.
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tgraupmann wrote:Hey that's about 3 month's rent in Seattle.
Well, in some parts of the world it isn't so. No way can SoC compete money-wise with your average tech internship in US, even at undergraduate level. Is it a reason to let "do-in-a-week" projects in? I dunno, but I doubt it ;).
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Post by sinbad »

I also think this is too small for a whole project, although if it were an extended proposal with a framework for using HOQs in various cases it would be worth consideration.
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lodi wrote:Why would you use an occlusion query on a billboard? You can just run the vertices through the current projection matrix and then do a simple formula to get the area in normalised screen coordinates (which you can easily change to # of pixels, or leave it as a ratio of total screen area, which is probably what you wanted in the first place.)
I had figured to get the corners of the billboard in screen coordinates to calculate width and height. This figuring area is simply width X height.

Man that sounds so easy. Is there a working example of this somewhere?

I'll post this in the wiki as soon as I figure it out...
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Post by lodi »

Well as buddy pointed out, I forgot about the case when part of the billboard is occluded by something. But you can still use that kind of idea for lod purposes etc.

The billboard is already orthogonal to the camera, so you don't even need to transform the vertices, you can just get a height and width vector and transform those. Multiply first by the inverse of the camera's view matrix and then the cameras projcection matrix. Normalize w, then height * height of the window * width * width of the window and you have your approximate pixel count. Probably more useful to just use height*width since that'll give you the percentage used (of the whole screen, regardless of resolution)
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Post by tgraupmann »

This is not the most efficient code but it seems to be working. I'll refine in the morning.

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inline Ogre::Vector2 ToScreenCoordinates(Ogre::Camera *_camera, const Ogre::Vector3 &_position)
{ 
	Ogre::Vector3 hcsPosition = _camera->getProjectionMatrix() * _camera->getViewMatrix() * _position;
	return Ogre::Vector2(0.5 - hcsPosition.x * 0.5f, hcsPosition.y * 0.5f + 0.5);
}
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	// Get the pixel count
	unsigned int pixelCount = m_RenderableOcclusionPair->GetPixelCount();

	// Get the render window
	Ogre::RenderWindow* renderWindow = Game::GetSingleton()->GetWindow();
	assert (renderWindow);

	// Get the Camera Scene Node
	Ogre::Camera* camera = GetCamera();
	assert (camera);

	// Approximate area
	float halfWidth = m_BillboardWidth*0.5f;
	float halfHeight = m_BillboardHeight*0.5f;

	Ogre::Vector3 pos = m_OcclusionTestSceneNode->getPosition();
	Ogre::Vector3 nX = camera->getOrientation().xAxis().normalisedCopy();
	Ogre::Vector3 nY = camera->getOrientation().yAxis().normalisedCopy();

	Ogre::Vector2 topLeft = ToScreenCoordinates(camera, pos + nX*(-halfWidth) + nY*halfHeight);
	Ogre::Vector2 topRight = ToScreenCoordinates(camera, pos + nX*halfWidth + nY*halfHeight);
	Ogre::Vector2 bottomLeft = ToScreenCoordinates(camera, pos + nX*(-halfWidth) + nY*(-halfHeight));
	Ogre::Vector2 bottomRight = ToScreenCoordinates(camera, pos + nX*halfWidth + nY*(-halfHeight));

	float aX = std::min(0.0f, std::min(topLeft.x, std::min(topRight.x, std::min(bottomLeft.x, bottomRight.x))));
	float aY = std::min(0.0f, std::min(topLeft.y, std::min(topRight.y, std::min(bottomLeft.y, bottomRight.y))));
	float bX = std::max(1.0f, std::max(topLeft.x, std::max(topRight.x, std::max(bottomLeft.x, bottomRight.x))));
	float bY = std::min(1.0f, std::max(topLeft.y, std::max(topRight.y, std::max(bottomLeft.y, bottomRight.y))));

	float width = (bX - aX) * renderWindow->getWidth();
	float height = (bY - aY) * renderWindow->getHeight();
	float area = width*height;
	if (area)
	{
		float ratio = pixelCount/area;
	}
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Post by bleubleu »

One way to approximate the area would be to use the Camera::projectSphere() method.

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bool Ogre::Camera::projectSphere  (  const Sphere &  sphere,  
  Real *  left,  
  Real *  top,  
  Real *  right,  
  Real *  bottom 
 )  const [virtual]
This is nice because it returns the bounds of a square in screen coordinate so you can basically replace all your code with a single call. I will try this tonight.

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