The relevant input data to your problem are the texture coordinates. Tangent and Binormal are vectors locally parallel to the object’s surface. And in the case of normal mapping they’re describing the local orientation of the normal texture. So you have to calculate the direction (in the model’s space) in which the texturing vectors point. … Read more
I know one good reason to prefer explicit location definition. Consider that you hold your geometry data in Vertex Array Objects. For a given object, you create a VAO in such way that the indices correspond to, for example: index 0: positions, index 1: normals, index 2: texcoords Now consider that you want to draw … Read more
[…] but can’t use it to index an array of samplers as expected because compiler sees it as “non-constant” […] In GLSL up to version 3.30 respectively GLSL ES up to version 3.00, the index of an array of texture samplers has to be a constant expression: GLSL 3.30 Specification – 4.1.7 Samplers (page 21) … Read more
From http://web.archive.org/web/20130416194336/http://olivers.posterous.com/linear-depth-in-glsl-for-real // == Post-process frag shader =========================================== uniform sampler2D depthBuffTex; uniform float zNear; uniform float zFar; varying vec2 vTexCoord; void main(void) { float z_b = texture2D(depthBuffTex, vTexCoord).x; float z_n = 2.0 * z_b – 1.0; float z_e = 2.0 * zNear * zFar / (zFar + zNear – z_n * (zFar – zNear)); } … Read more
3 Solutions to recover view space position in perspective projection The projection matrix describes the mapping from 3D points of a scene, to 2D points of the viewport. It transforms from view (eye) space to the clip space, and the coordinates in the clip space are transformed to the normalized device coordinates (NDC) by dividing … Read more
What is it about shaders that even potentially makes if statements performance problems? It has to do with how shaders get executed and where GPUs get their massive computing performance from. Separate shader invocations are usually executed in parallel, executing the same instructions at the same time. They’re simply executing them on different sets of … Read more
For very simple pseudorandom-looking stuff, I use this oneliner that I found on the internet somewhere: float rand(vec2 co){ return fract(sin(dot(co, vec2(12.9898, 78.233))) * 43758.5453); } You can also generate a noise texture using whatever PRNG you like, then upload this in the normal fashion and sample the values in your shader; I can dig … Read more
but I still don’t know whether or not the gl_FragCoord.z is linear. Whether gl_FragCoord.z is linear or not depends on, the projection matrix. While for Orthographic Projection gl_FragCoord.z is linear, for Perspective Projection it is not linear. In general, the depth (gl_FragCoord.z and gl_FragDepth) is calculated as follows (see GLSL gl_FragCoord.z Calculation and Setting gl_FragDepth): … Read more
+1 for interesting problem. Was curious so I tried to code this. I need the use of arrays so I chose #version 420 core. My app is rendering single quad covering screen with coordinates <-1,+1>. I am using whole ASCII 8×8 pixel 32×8 characters font texture I created some years ago: The vertex is simple: … Read more
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