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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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1answer
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Driver error when using multiple shaders
I'm using 3 different shaders:
a tessellation shader to use the tessellation feature of DirectX11 :)
a regular shader to show how it would look without tessellation
and a text shader to display ...
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3answers
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Directional light and matrix issues
I'm trying to implement basic directional lightning in OpenGL 3.3 by emulating the logic shown in this guide: http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/Illumination/Tutorial%2009.html
I do not understand ...
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2answers
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Geometry shader worldviewprojection
I'm writing a simple geometry shader to create 3D "primitives" in place of a single point. I am performing all of the world-view-projection conversions within the geometry shader after creating the ...
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1answer
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Rendering an object more than once
Right now I'm facing the issue of rendering the same objects more than once in Directx 11, as the object has:
A diffuse shader
A directional lighting shader
A texture shader
Now the final color ...
0
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1answer
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OpenGL RTT FrameBuffer question and Rendering to texture while sampling it
What i need to do:
Blur the selected texture and pass the texture to another effect for postprocessing.
Notice that i want one texture passed all over.
How do i want to do this:
Bind the FBO ( ...
2
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1answer
125 views
Shadow cubemapping?
I am working on a game with C++ and OpenGL 3.2. I have successfully implemented directional shadow maps and now I'd like to upgrade them to shadow cube maps (for point lights). I've done some Googling ...
3
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2answers
172 views
Which will be faster? Switching shaders or ignore that some cases don't need full code?
I have two types of 2d objects:
In first case (for about 70% of objects), I need that code in the shader:
float2 texCoord = input.TexCoord + textureCoord.xy
But in the second case I have to use:
...
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4answers
497 views
Avoid if statements in DirectX 10 shaders?
I have heard that if statements should be avoid in shaders, because both parts of the statements will be execute, and than the wrong will be dropped (which harms the performance).
It's still a ...
2
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0answers
231 views
Where is the Shader Designer?
I have VS2012 Ultimate and I've been trying to access (find) the Shader Designer. I searched through MSDN's text and Channel9's videos, but they keep failing to mention how to access it...
Can ...
3
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2answers
443 views
Learning OpenGL GLSL - VAO buffer problems?
I've just started digging through OpenGL and GLSL, and now stumbled on something I can't get my head around this one!? I've stepped back to loading a simple cube and using a simple shader on it, but ...
0
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1answer
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Dynamically change shader syntax with the help of C++
I'm starting with the programmable pipeline and the shaders in C++ for OpenGL 3.0+, i would love to be able to change some settings on the fly, for example replacing a function with another function, ...
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1answer
424 views
Dealing with alpha for 2D per pixel lighting
Right now I've got a simple light shader. Every bitmap I draw goes through it to make up the scene. I only draw quads.
texture tex;
sampler2D s = sampler_state {
texture = <tex>;
...
4
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3answers
313 views
Finding out what pixel on the screen the fragment falls on
In my 2D game, I render tiles. I want to do lighting without needing an extra buffer the size of the screen.
Either in glsl or hlsl, what could I feed to the shader each time I render a bitmap so ...
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0answers
198 views
Full screen shader causes performance hit
I basically want to have a shader run that can do something like toon shading, or grayscale the whole screen, or radial lighting.
To do this, I create a new bitmap each time the display resizes that ...
0
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1answer
113 views
My blur gets ugly when radius too high
I have the following h and v blur:
Horz
texture tex;
sampler2D s = sampler_state {
texture = <tex>;
};
int tWidth;
int tHeight;
float blurSize = 9.0;
float4 ...
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2answers
512 views
My hlsl shader cannot unroll a loop?
I have this shader:
texture tex;
sampler2D s = sampler_state {
texture = <tex>;
};
int tWidth = 1;
int tHeight = 1;
int blurLength = 3;
float4 ps_main(VS_OUTPUT ...
1
vote
3answers
207 views
Shaders not linking correctly
I'm writing a rather simple "ShaderManager" which aids me with loading shaders in Open GL, altough I am having a few issues:
The shaders don't link correctly
The the attributes don't bind
Here's ...
2
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2answers
428 views
Lighting problems with Terrain
I'm in the process of learning Open GL and am having issues with lighting on my Terrian, I don't know if the issue is related to how I calculate my normals or the shader itself (I am using the shader ...
0
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1answer
469 views
Toon shader with Texture. Can this be optimized?
I am quite new to OpenGL, I have managed after long trial and error to integrate Nehe's Cel-Shading rendering with my Model loaders, and have them drawn using the Toon shade and outline AND their ...
6
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4answers
843 views
Spell Effects/Shaders
I want to be able to achieve spell effects that cause a fragmenting/discoloring effect on the sprite. The first couple seconds of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNCFh7mkvuc shows what I ...
6
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2answers
775 views
Casting a shadow over a whole scene with GLSL in 2D?
I'm making a (non-isometric) side scrolling 2D game and I want each fragment that I draw to cast a small drop shadow when it is near another object. What sort of algorithms are used in fragment ...
4
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3answers
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Loading and using an HLSL shader?
I've been looking everywhere and all I can find are tutorials on writing the shaders. None of them showed me how to incorporate them into my scene.
So essentially:
Given an hlsl shader, if I were to ...
1
vote
1answer
282 views
Output from vertex shader in D3D9
I've been looking at creating some 2D rendering systems in D3D9, basically because I don't like ID3DXSprite. For the output of the vertex shader, what co-ordinate system does the run-time expect ...
2
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1answer
245 views
Bluring behind something then drawing text?
I want to basically make a blur shader in glsl and use it like Windows 7 does for Windows. I want to for example draw something and then blur a rectangle, then draw text over it.
If someone could ...
