Motion bulr with OpenGL ES

[alabama83]

How can I implemet this effect with OpenGL ES on a rotating quad in Symbian?
I've tryed this code:
glClear( GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT );
glEnable(GL_BLEND);
glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glDisable( GL_CULL_FACE );

but when I active the motion blur the quad stop to rotate! I've tryed to use only
glClear( GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT ); and it run, but it's not a real motion blur because there's no blending?
Can Someone help me?!
Thanks!

[Flame]

Hi.

Is your render loop something like this:

1. clear depth
2. render quad
3. eglSwapBuffers( )
4. clear depth
5. render quad
6. eglSwapBuffers( )
...

?

In that case you should take a careful look on the EGL specification on the semantics of the eglSwapBuffers( ). Specifically, contents of the color buffer after a call to eglSwapBuffers( ) are _undefined_ => color buffer contents cannot be accumulater from the frame to another.

There are couple of ways around it:

1) create separate render surface (PBuffer) for your accumulated rendering,
all rendering will be done there (no swapbuffers -> frame buffer will be
kept). whenever you want to display the buffer, you can for example
copy the content to a texture, call eglMakeCurrent on the window
surface, and render the texture to the screen with two triangles

2) same as (1), but you can use eglCopyBuffers( ) to copy PBuffer contents
to native pixmap (CFbsBitmap), then draw that to screen with standard
Symbian bitblits (note: remember to use eglWaitGL( ) and eglWaitNative)))

3) same as (1), but you use glReadPixels( ) to read the data from PBuffer
into Symbian bitmap, then bitblit it ...

4) use window surfaces, but draw the contents of for example frames
N-3,N-2,N-1, and N into the window surface (thus 4x render load),
and swap that to the display

Choices are many. Depending on the content, some choices may be faster
than others. If you are really trying to get simple content working, then choice (4) may be for you. If you have really complex frames, then some of the other alternatives should work better.

Jani Vaarala
Graphics Architect
Nokia