I am struggling to find any clear information on how to access the properties of a material inside a metal shader, specifically the diffuse color.
My geometry sources are defined with vertices, normals and texture coordinates:
let sources = [SCNGeometrySource(vertices: vertices),
SCNGeometrySource(normals: normals),
SCNGeometrySource(textureCoordinates: textureCoordinates)]
let elements = meshIndices.map { SCNGeometryElement(indices: $0, primitiveType: .triangles) }
self.init(sources: sources, elements: elements)
Inside my shader I can access the vertex position and normal using the semantic attributes:
typedef struct {
float3 position [[ attribute(SCNVertexSemanticPosition) ]];
float3 normal [[ attribute(SCNVertexSemanticNormal) ]];
} Vertex;
Whilst SCNVertexSemanticColor is a valid attribute, these are not defined on a per vertex basis in my case with the color instead being derived from the diffuse property of the material attached to the shader program.
Is there a way to access the properties of the material attached to my geometry? I would assume that creating a struct and binding it to an input attribute is the correct way forward but I am unsure how these are surfaced to the shader.
typedef struct {
float3 diffuse [[ materials? ]];//how to reference material.diffuse.contents?
} Material;
I assume that these properties must be available to the shader as everything is rendered as expected if you leave SceneKit to do its own thing. Do I need to bind these properties as uniforms myself or is there a specific argument I can use to access them?
