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Billboard Shader

Started by INVERSED Apr 6, 2006 at 6:39 PM 1 replies 10.4k views

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Apr 6, 2006 at 6:39 PM

Hey all, I know a smiliar thread was started in the GP&T section, but I decided to post here because that one was marked "[RESOLVED]", and I was affraid that no one would bother to look at it. So basically, I have a GLSL shader that works on a quad list to build a bunch of screen facing particles. My problem is that that my rotation transforms don't seem to be right as everything goes to hell when I attempt to render. So far, I've tried the simple stuff like making sure my camPos is being set properly, and flipping the cross products. The thing is that this is the same look at code I use on the CPU, but it breaks on the GPU. Anyone see something I'm missing?


uniform float size;
uniform vec3 camPos;
	
void main()
{	
	//vec4 worldPos;
	
	vec3 vAt = camPos - gl_Vertex.xyz;
	vec3 vRight = cross( vec3( 0.0, 1.0, 0.0 ),  vAt );
	vec3 vUp = cross( vAt, vRight );
	normalize( vAt );
	normalize( vRight );
	normalize( vUp );
	
	//tex coords are used to store how the vert should be transformed
	vec2 pos = gl_MultiTexCoord0.zw * vec2( size/2.0, size );
	mat4 w = mat4(	vec4( vRight, 0.0 ),
			vec4( vUp, 0.0 ),
			vec4( vAt, 0.0 ),
			gl_Vertex );
	
	gl_Position = gl_ModelViewProjectionMatrix * w * vec4( pos, 0.0, 1.0 );;
	
   	gl_TexCoord[0] = gl_MultiTexCoord0;
}

deavik

Apr 6, 2006 at 9:04 PM

Quote:
Original post by INVERSED
vec3 vRight = cross( vec3( 0.0, 1.0, 0.0 ), vAt );
vec3 vUp = cross( vAt, vRight );

I'm not sure, but the above looks like a candidate for errors -- are you sure that's what you want? Couldn't vUp just be vec3(0.0, 1.0, 0.0) ?

INVERSED

Apr 6, 2006 at 11:44 PM

Bah, finally figured it out. apparently you actually have to catch a return value from normalize... oops. Anyway, here's the modified code for any who might want it. Again the four vertices of a billboard all have the same poition, and the texcoord z and w store the directions for the right and up of the current vertex.

uniform float size;
uniform vec3 camPos;

void main()
{
vec3 vAt = camPos - gl_Vertex.xyz;
vAt = normalize( vAt );
vec3 vRight = cross( vec3( 0.0, 1.0, 0.0 ), vAt );
vec3 vUp = cross( vAt, vRight );
vRight = normalize( vRight );
vUp = normalize( vUp );

vec2 s = gl_MultiTexCoord0.zw * vec2( size/2.0, size );
vec3 vR = s.xxx * vRight;
vec3 vU = s.yyy * vUp;

vec4 dir = vec4( vR + vU, 0.0 );
gl_Position = gl_ModelViewProjectionMatrix * (gl_Vertex + dir );

gl_TexCoord[0] = gl_MultiTexCoord0;
}

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