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How not to render 3D graphics: 40 ways to get a blank black screen
- tumult 17y agoI hate "n things" lists but that was pretty good.
- timdorr 17y agoYou have a bug in your matrix library. The entire universe has collapsed to (0,0,0). If God is a programmer, I wonder if he's hit on that kind of bug before. "Whoops, destroyed all of existence! Better start over..."
- olliesaunders 17y ago> You're standing in front of a black wall. That was the best one.
- Legion 17y agoMy experience with 3D engines doesn't extend much beyond an undergrad project I did, but even that was enough to read this list and smile knowingly at a good chunk of it.
- pierrealexandre 17y agoThis is the perfect cheatsheet for a question I got during an interview at a major GPU company : "You write an OpenGL program displaying a colourful object, but you get a black screen when you launch it. What could have gone wrong in your code ?". I painfully thought about 3 or 4 of them and am now deeply embarrassed by my lack of imagination.
- greyfade 17y agoMissing one: Your far-clip plane is too close.