Android :: OpenGL Key Frame Animation - The Best Approach
Dec 29, 2009
I'm trying to animate object. I use keyframe animation: I have two vertex buffers (two frames) with vertices of my object - first buffer is for object start state and second for end state. To transform the object I simply use linear interpolation. To make it more clear, please take a look at the code snippet:
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As you can see I actually use one more buffer. vertexBuffer_motion is the one I use to draw my object in intermediate state.
Time for my question. What is the best approach for such keyframe animation on android? Can I somehow avoid (quite time consuming) operations of calculating and copying new state of all vertices to vertexBuffer_motion?
I know I could use VBO but still, I would have to prepare this vertexBuffer_motion and use glBufferData to set data to this VBO (or not?). provide me with some code example showing the best approach for keyframe animation on android?
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Feb 18, 2010
I've created an application that show around 250 images in ImageView. Images are loaded one after another, 15-30 images per second. Basically the whole thing gives an illusion of a rotating 3D object, at least it should.
The problem is next, app hangs when loading certain images(i.e. I see a few seconds of fluid animation and then animation hangs, jump 10-15 frames(images) ahead and continues. It always happens at the same places in animation cycle.
I though that Android might not have enough resources to handle something like this, so I've resized images to half their size, but it did't help. I've tried buffering images but that did't help either(actually, maybe a little, I think that animation looks a little bit smoother).
And now the weirdest thing. I use the touch screen to allow users to "rotate" the 3D object on those images, and while rotating I again experience those hangs at exactly the same places as with the animation.
All images are in .png format and their size vary from 15kB to 40kB.
I use the following code for the animation:
CODE:.....................
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Jan 29, 2009
I've been playing with OpenGL but am unable to get a steady framerate due to GC. When rendering 100 tiles each frame (in ortho mode), the GC needs to recover ~22000 objects every 3 seconds or so. Each collection is taking around 110 ms. Of course this means quite a framerate dip.
... D/dalvikvm( 9837): GC freed 21841 objects / 524272 bytes in 113ms D/dalvikvm( 9837): GC freed 21841 objects / 524272 bytes in 113ms D/dalvikvm( 9837): GC freed 21841 objects / 524272 bytes in 113ms D/dalvikvm( 9837): GC freed 21841 objects / 524272 bytes in 114ms ...
The rendering loop I tested with is not making any objects and is very simple;
while (super.running) { gl.glClear(GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, tex); for(x = 0 ; x < 100; x++) { gl.glVertexPointer(2, GL10.GL_FIXED, 0, tileCoords[x]); gl.glTexCoordPointer(2, GL10.GL_FIXED, 0, tileTexCoords[x]); gl.glDrawArrays(GL10.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4); } egl.eglSwapBuffers(dpy, surface);
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Jul 5, 2009
i'm doing some experiments with OpenGL using the GLSurfaceView introduced in 1.5 In my Renderer I keep track of the time spent to render the last frame and pass this value to the method that update my model. The goal is to keep objects movements on the screen independent from the rendering time. Now this seems to work perfectly in the emulator, but on the real device is at least 4/5 times slower! Has anyone experienced the same problem? Or, anyone has a clue of what I'm doing wrong? Here's pieces of the code I'm using
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Mar 22, 2010
I have a problem with a suddenly dead(?) OpenGL Thread. After an indeterminate time (30 seconds to a couple of minutes) the onDrawFrame of the Renderer simply doesn't get called anymore. I get no exception, no ForceClose, no ActivityNotResponding, no nothing! I can still open the Menu, have another Handler/Runnable-cycle logging out "Alive", etc Recently I introduced some native stuff (physics-library). But I can verify that there is no native problem, as there is obviously no native crash and after the GLThread died, I can still do like: Log.d("Before native call") nativeCall(); Log.d("After native call") Maybe anyone of you experienced something similar to this?
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How do i pause frame animation using AnimationDrawable?
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Aug 6, 2010
Does anyone know if it is possible to apply a frame animation (using an AnimationDrawable) onto a custom button or a toast view? I have posted these questions on Stackoverflow but have received no responses and very few views so I thought perhaps posting to this forum would be a better route. Let me know if this "double posting" is bad form.
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Mar 23, 2009
I am using frame animation in multiple page where in each page i am using set of png files. First animation is working fine but when i am trying to call second animation it showing
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget
Is there any way to solve this issue.
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Apr 14, 2010
I am using a simple frame animation and when I exit and reenter my activity the activity is still referenced in memory.
//This is a sample activity I created to simulate the problem public class MemoryLeakActivity extends Activity {
@Override public void onCreate(final Bundle savedInstanceState) super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
} @Override public boolean onKeyDown(final int keyCode, final KeyEvent event) {
final Intent i = new Intent(MemoryLeakActivity.this, LeakyActivy.class);
startActivity(i); return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
} }
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Is it possible to create a custom button in Android, where the button is idly animating using a frame animation (AnimationDrawable)?
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Feb 1, 2010
I am drawing a pretty simple scene, with one large texture the about size of the screen (two triangles). I notice that the frame-rate is irregular: in most of cases, a frame finishes in 17 ms. However, in about 1 of 10 times, the frame finishes in 33ms.
My guess is probably some background services need to run. However, the Linux scheduler is biased towards my FG app, so the BG services are usually starved, until they can't take it anymore and they grab the CPU from my app ....
I am seeing stuttering in the animation. Is this due to the irregular frame rate? Should I delay each frame so that all frames are rendered with 33ms frame time? If so, what's the best technique of achieving this?
Is there an API that I can call to guarantee CPU resources for the render thread .... I really hope Android runs on some sort of real time kernel ...
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Jul 22, 2010
In a nut shell, when the app is loaded, it will play a short movie (maybe a few seconds at most @ 12-24fps). I will then have 2 buttons displayed on the screen, and depending on what button is pressed, it I will play another short movie (5-10 seconds). While waiting for the user to make a decision, the movie will be looping.
The movie source is stop-motion photography so it's already chopped up into frames. My question here is if I should use a Frame Animation technique, or if I should use a Movie player for this. All in all perhaps there's less than 100 still frames that make up the stop-motion. I was going to go the Frame Animation route, but I wasn't sure if having so many individual frames would kill the app so I thought I'd post here to see if anyone had any insight.
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Dec 18, 2009
I would prefer to not have to purchase a Flip Video Recorder to provide me the frame by frame playback needed (coaching girls softball) for instant instruction at practice. Is there an app that provides playback of video at a frame by frame rate?
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May 19, 2012
I'm trying to build a live wallpaper using frames. I can't find any good tutorials on how to even build a live wallpaper. When I run app from eclipse i get these errors.
[2012-05-19 22:26:32 - LiveWallpaper] No Launcher activity found!
[2012-05-19 22:26:32 - LiveWallpaper] The launch will only sync the application package on the device!
It does install to the emulator. It all seems to work. I go in to the live wallpaper menu, find my live wallpaper in there open it, it loads. but its not moving through the frames. It only shows the last frame. I set it as wallpaper. It also doesn't do anything. Also would like to center the images.
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.service.wallpaper.WallpaperService;
import android.view.SurfaceHolder;
[code]...
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Feb 25, 2009
Single Threaded OpenGL game ! (check bottom, you can download and use the helper class) Lighting disabled ! Depth Buffer disabled ! Culling enabled ! Textures disabled !
Just 176 integers (x,y values only) making 88 vertexes along with 132 index numbers making "44 triangles only"
Framerates I get is
with GL_BLENDING disabled - 145 fps approx only! enabled - 110 fps approx only!
I have the screenshot of exact code in the draw function here.. just 2 damn lines ! I have hidden only the comments.. click here to see it http://prasna991.googlepages.com/drawframe.png
variable details in the 2 lines of code =========================== ipts = 176 elements (only x and y for each vertex) totallinetriangles * 3 = 176 lineindexes = 132 elements - type "short"
Here is the screenshot of output drawing and how it will look like http://prasna991.googlepages.com/screen.png
OpenGL single threaded Initialization Helper ================================ Here is my OpenGL helper class.. makes the OpenGL initialization for newbies a cakewalk http://prasna991.googlepages.com/OpenGLHelperclass.txt
I tested by rendering on the touch event only.. frame rate drops only when u touch and drag and here I have just tested by tapping and releasing gently on the emulator and on the device
Is this the device limitations ? So graphics is actually a lot lot lot slower than on iPhone ?
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Jul 24, 2010
I would like to be able to use the OpenGL API from both Java and C (via NDK).
In Java, there is a GL object passed, which has all GL methods on it.
In C, you just talk to the native library.
In a single onDrawFrame callback (for which Java is passed a GL), can I use methods on the GL object, and also call NDK methods which access the openGL library?
In other words, is the GL object just a wrapper for the same instance of the native library?
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Aug 30, 2010
I have a strange issue - from time to time the animation that should fade out my control (ImageButton) does not kick in immediately. I am using the fadeout animation to hide it and then in myListener on its end (onAnimationEnd) I put new resource as the image on the button.
Somewhere in my app code:
Animation a = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this,R.anim.fadeout); a.setAnimationListener(new myListener(location)); buttons[location].setAnimation(a); a.startNow(); // regardless if its start() or startnNow() it will work in most of the cases but not 100% reliable I actually can see in debug Log when its late, happens after few more clicks
Then in myListener.onAnimationEnd(Animation a):buttons[location].setImageResource(R.drawable.standard_button);
Seems there is a rule that the every 4th or 5th animation does not start ...
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Jul 12, 2010
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