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Unity - Help Shader texture coordinate

I am making a 2D water shader. For this, I use GrabPass which works well. But I am facing an issue. If I want to display the GrabPass texture I have to create my own texture coordinates because ...
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OpenGL Calculate Matrices

Im trying to switch from the glTranslate etc to my own Matrices, but for some reason it does not work. Here are my 2 functions to create the view- and projection matrix: public Matrix4f ...
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Get world-position in Vertex shader

I'm wondering how I can get the final position of a vertex. I use glTranslate in my render code, and I'm not getting the world-coordinates correct. My world is devided in chunks and my position get's ...
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GLSL Shaders-> How to manage?

As your game get's bigger and bigger, you will use more and more different shader effects. Let's take an easy example: I have clouds in my voxel-based world, and I want to give it a blue-ish tint ...
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Using a programmable pipeline in a game engine

As a learning experience, I'm developing my own 3D game engine using OpenGL. I'm a little confused as to how to implement my rendering engine such that it uses a programmable pipeline while still ...
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Unity Shader GrabPass alternative

Is there an alternative for the heavy GrabPass method ? Is there a solution to avoid the foreground issue ? I mean when using GrabPass, if the refracted object is in front of the bumpy refractor, he ...
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How to draw a circle with WebGL using GL_POINTS

I'm trying to draw a circle using simple vertices points and a big gl_PointSize value. I found this example and try to reproduce it on WebGL with no success.
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Optimizing performance of a heavy fragment shader

I need help optimizing the following set of shaders: Vertex: precision mediump float; uniform vec2 rubyTextureSize; attribute vec4 vPosition; attribute vec2 a_TexCoordinate; varying vec2 tc; ...
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OpenGL parsing normals from obj gets shading wrong [closed]

I have written a simple OBJ file parser for my game engine and it renders everything correctly, but, when I try and use the normals to do lighting it gets shaded all wrong! I draw using an index ...
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Shader applied to Texture is not showed in GLSLES

I'm trying to learn the basic of shaders following basic tutorials in Ogre. I use GLSL ES 2.0 #version 100 I think I have a basic concept problem. I'm trying to render a model + texture without make ...
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Specular Light not working Phong shading

I want to implement Phong-Shading using GLSL. I also want to calulate all values using uniforms in the shaders. Nearly everything works fine, but there is an error with the specular term of the ...
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Direction from the camera to the light source

I'm currently writing a game using OpenGL and GLSL. For the shader I need the direction from the current camera to the light source. The lightsource is given by lightSource.position as a uniform as ...
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OpenGL ES 2.0 - Rendered texture is blank [closed]

I am attempting to render to a texture, then render the texture to the screen, but it always seems to be blank no matter what I do. Can you guys take a look for me and see what I am missing here? The ...
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Set a variable inside a GLSL fragment shader that persists for the render

Is it possible to set a varying variable inside a fragment shader and have it persist? I'd like to use the depth component of the first fragment and use it on all the others, making the fragments all ...
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2D water shader similar to Limbo's effect

I'm wondering how I would go about creating a 2D water shader that is seen in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phChFfi4GOs The water effect that limbo uses is pretty awesome. I'm not so ...
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bump mapping with 2 normal maps

I was wondering if its actually possible to do bump mapping with 2 normal maps... I have tried doing it this way however I get a function overload on max and dot. uniform sampler2D n_mapTex; uniform ...
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texture movement stutters

Hey I at the moment I have got my texture to move however it stutters as I increment by 0.001 every second. My animation is done via FPS if that make sense and here is some code FrameCount++; ...
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texture won't move OpenGL ES 2.0

I want be able to move my texture in GLSL I have set my texture to wrap S and wrap T but not sure why it wont move my fragment shader looks like this at the moment uniform sampler2D n_mapTex; ...
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Texture / shader template program [closed]

I would like to use OpenGL to downsize images, using shaders. I would be very grateful, if somebody can give me a sample program in C++, which loads bitmap texture, draws it to the entire screen and ...
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scaling point sprites with distance

How can you scale a point sprite by its distance from the camera? GLSL fragment shader: gl_PointSize = size / gl_Position.w; seems along the right tracks; for any given scene all sprites seem nicely ...
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variable number of lights in a glsl shader?

I want to render an arbitrary number of lights in my fragment shader. I do not understand how you can properly pass them into the shader though. For example, I want something like this: uniform int ...
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How to alter the angle of texture projection

I'm currently working on a 3Dish game; it's on a grid, with 3D props and the camera looking down on the grid at about 45ยบ, but I want to use 2D sprites for the player and NPCs. Currently, I'm using a ...
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GLSL: Why can only some of the matrices be found? [closed]

I've been learning GLSL and to start I've been trying to replicate the fixed-function pipeline functionality with it, for 2D graphics. I've done it successfully in most things, so far, but I came into ...
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gbuffer - how to store an integer data

In a gbuffer I store a diffuse color in following texture: glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA, width, height, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, NULL); I want to store an integer data which ...
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How to do simple bump mapping

I'm trying to do bump mapping, and I'm getting fairly close at achieving my goal. I miss one crucial piece of my puzzle to have bump mapped effect in my scene; I need to transform the normals from my ...
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Reinhard tone mapping and color space [closed]

I found two ways of doing tone mapping (first, second): //Ld - this part of the code is the same for both versions float lum = dot(rgb, vec3(0.2126f, 0.7152f, 0.0722f)); float L = (scale / ...
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RGB to xyY color space conversion and luminance

The luminance calculated by following GLSL functions (fragment shaders - tonemap) has different value: float GetLuminance (vec3 rgb) { return (0.2126 * rgb.x) + (0.7152 * rgb.y) + (0.0722 * ...
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iPhone GLSL shader dynamic branching issue

I am trying to pass an array of vec3 as uniform and then iterate through them on each pixel. The size of array varies on situations so I can't make the loop with constant number of iterations. ...
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How do I pass textures into a fragment shader in Slick?

I've written a shader that uses three different textures, tex0, tex1, and tex2. I can load it into Slick and successfully display it, but I can't figure out how to set the three different textures. ...
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GLSL Motion blur on mobile.. possible at acceptable framerates?

I have been struggling to implement a simple linear motion blur effect on mobile (Android, OpenGLES 2.0) but it just seems to destroy my framerate. I'm rendering to texture (FBO) then applying a ...
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How to solve artifacts caused by vertex lighting in my voxel engine?

My current lighting system bakes the light amount based on ray-tracing from the light source to the 8 corners of the block (so per-vertex) and the distance to the light on the blocks. It works ...
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How to get a smooth dimming with SSAO?

I implemented SSAO in my game based on the tutorial at gamerendering.com. But the results I get are disappointing. Instead of a smooth effect as seen in the nvidia demos, my implementation causes ...
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LWJGL Game crashes on some other machines [closed]

I just tried running my game on a friend's laptop, but for some reason it crashes. The exported .jar runs fine on my machine, and some others too. I can see that is has something to do with the ...
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Voxel engine artifacts

There are white little dots between blocks at random places, mainly at very near blocks. They disappear when I move the mouse and change the view direction. I use Vertex Arrays with ...
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OpenGL VBO Additional Attributes

If I have a buffer with my vertices, normals and texture coordinates, and I use glDrawArrays to draw the VBO to the screen, how can I send attributes per vertex that I placed in an array to the shader ...
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Do opengl games tend to use multiple shaders? [duplicate]

For any given object that you want to render, there may be a whole bunch of things that need to be considered for rendering (Material, Texture, Lighting, Blending etc). But, you may also have some ...
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Program created with glCreateProgram is not identified as a valid OpenGL program outside [closed]

I've starting programming in OpenGL and I decided to create my own class to manage shader objects. In the class constructor I create a new program calling glCreateProgram, and I'm able to print its ...
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glsl 150 struct in uniform buffer object

Can I do this in opengl 3.2 / glsl 150? glsl shader: struct LightSource { vec4 ambient; vec4 diffuse; vec4 specular; vec4 position; vec4 direction; }; ... layout(std140) uniform ...
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How to transform a shadow map to camera view?

I'm making a rendering engine as a hobby to learn more about 3D. I have a deferred renderer with the G-buffer (color, normal and depth). I also have a lighting controller that uses only spotlights at ...
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in the shadow of a sphere [duplicate]

(Related, but somewhat different, to my previous question) How can I determine in a fragment shader if a fragment is in the shadow of a sphere? That is, if it is occluded by the sphere and is past ...
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What is the recommended way to output values to FBO targets? (OpenGL 3.3 + GLSL 330)

I'll begin by apologizing for any dumb assumptions you might find in the code below since I'm still pretty much green when it comes to OpenGL programming. I'm currently trying to implement deferred ...
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Simple pass-through geometry shader with normal and color

I've written a very simple pass-through geometry shader. My input and output primitives are points. I also want to forward the color and normal from vertex shader to fragment shader through geometry ...
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Using two FBOs results in the second FBO having nothing drawn to [closed]

I'm writing a deferred renderer, and I use two FBOs: the first one for G-buffer (color, normal, depth) and the second one for lighting (light output), so the first one has three textures bound and the ...
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Jagged transparency when rendering translucent textures (OpenGL 3.2 + GLSL)

Like most others, I'll start off mentioning that I'm still a beginner when it comes to OpenGL and GLSL programming. So bear with me on any dumb mistakes you may spot in the code ahead. I'm basically ...
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GLSL code is very slow…why? [closed]

I know this is a very difficult thing to simply modify without the full project code, but I am having a massive performance problem with GLSL code that seems to be very efficient to me. I am stuck at ...
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My game works on the emulator and the PSVita, but crashes on Android

I made a game on PSM, ported from a previous iOS/Android game. I test it on the emulator and PSVita and runs fine. However, as I test it on a PlayStation Certified Android device, it crashes on load. ...
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Starting OpenGL ES 2 [closed]

Really, I'm a bit confused now. I want to learn OpenGL ES 2, and eventually make games for Android and iPhone. Thing is, I don't really have any of these devices, so I need solution for emulating ...
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Cook Torrance model implementation : black specular light

I am trying to implement the Cook-Torrance model, and this is how I calculate the parameter Rs: float Rs(float m,float F,vec3 N, vec3 L,vec3 V, vec3 H) { float result; float NdotV= ...
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How to rotate a direction

I'm working a spotlight for my deferred renderer and I'm having trouble with matching the mesh to the visual representation of the light. Right now my mesh is a cone, the apex of the cone is at ...
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Fragments never falling into spot light's cone

I am using GLSL version 1.20 with OpenGL 2.1 . I am trying to compute when a fragment falls into the area of a spot light. I have already set all the light values with glLightfv and glLightf, also ...

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