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I need to do frustum culling where the bounding boxes are in world-space to determine which entities get to be updated/drawn. I was trying to use the classic projection/view matrix plane extraction method but it doesn't seem to work with perspective matrices created by GLM. Is this method appropriate for world-space culling? It seems like it would be (takes the eye position into account and the projection matrix shapes the frustum).

I've only looked at the near/far planes extract so far and they're wrong for a frustum sitting at the origin (Both have a c component that's negative which means near and far are facing the same direction). Also, since the d components can't match the near/far clipping values with this method is it wrong for world-space culling?

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Are you using the plane extraction algorithm for OpenGL-style right-handed column-major projection matrices. They are not the same as typical D3D matrices. Make sure you know which handed-ness your algorithm uses (GL/glm is right-handed by convention), and to remember that glm matrices are column-major. I know I can easily extract frustrum planes from a GL projection matrix identical to what glm makes, so it definitely works and is doable. \$\endgroup\$
    – Sean Middleditch
    Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 2:00
  • \$\begingroup\$ Yes I'm extracting for column-major. It was originally written as row-major but when I switched to GLM I updated it. It did actually pass my tests when it was written for row-major. I'm not sure that GLM produces a projection matrix identical to OpenGL's - in the header it appeared to be row-major. \$\endgroup\$
    – zenkai
    Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 2:03

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Figured out the problem - GLM's interface for accessing the matrix is backwards compared to the matrix used by the original frustum extraction paper for OpenGL.

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