As a starting point I use the Vuforia (version 4) sample called MultiTargets which tracks a 3d physical "cube" in the camera feed and augments it with yellow grid lines along the cube edges. What I want to achieve is remove the textures and use diffuse lighting on the cube faces instead, by setting my own light position.
I want to do this on native Android and I do NOT want to use Unity.
It's been a hard journey of several days of work and learning. This is my first time working with OpenGL of any kind, and OpenGL ES 2.0 doesn't exactly make it easy for the beginner.
So I have a light source positioned slightly above the top face of my cube. I found that I can get the diffuse effect right if I compute the lambert factor in model space, everything remains in place regardless of my camera, and only the top face gets any light.
But when I move to using eye space, it becomes weird and the light seems to follow my camera around. Other faces get light, not only the top face. I don't understand why that is. For testing I have made sure that the light position is as expected by only using distance to lightsource for rendering pixel brightness in the fragment shader. Therefore, I'm fairly confident in the correctness of my "lightDirectionEyespace", and my only explanation is that something with the normals must be wrong. But I think I followed the explanations for creating the normal matrix correctly...
Help please!
Then there is of course the question whether those diffuse calculations SHOULD be performed in eye space? Will there be any disadvantages if I just do it in model space? I suspect that probably when I later use more models and lights and add specular and transparency, it will not work anymore, even though I don't see yet why.
My renderFrame method: (some variable names still contain "bottle", which is the object I want to light next after I get the cube right)
private void renderFrame()
{
ShaderFactory.checkGLError("Check gl errors prior render Frame");
// Clear color and depth buffer
GLES20.glClear(GLES20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GLES20.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
// Get the state from Vuforia and mark the beginning of a rendering section
final State state=Renderer.getInstance().begin();
// Explicitly render the Video Background
Renderer.getInstance().drawVideoBackground();
GLES20.glEnable(GLES20.GL_DEPTH_TEST);
GLES20.glEnable(GLES20.GL_BLEND);
GLES20.glBlendFunc(GLES20.GL_SRC_ALPHA, GLES20.GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
// Did we find any trackables this frame?
if(0 != state.getNumTrackableResults())
{
// Get the trackable:
TrackableResult result=null;
final int numResults=state.getNumTrackableResults();
// Browse results searching for the MultiTarget
for(int j=0; j < numResults; j++)
{
result=state.getTrackableResult(j);
if(result.isOfType(MultiTargetResult.getClassType()))
break;
result=null;
}
// If it was not found exit
if(null == result)
{
// Clean up and leave
GLES20.glDisable(GLES20.GL_BLEND);
GLES20.glDisable(GLES20.GL_DEPTH_TEST);
Renderer.getInstance().end();
return;
}
final Matrix44F modelViewMatrix_Vuforia=Tool.convertPose2GLMatrix(result.getPose());
final float[] modelViewMatrix=modelViewMatrix_Vuforia.getData();
final float[] modelViewProjection=new float[16];
Matrix.scaleM(modelViewMatrix, 0, CUBE_SCALE_X, CUBE_SCALE_Y, CUBE_SCALE_Z);
Matrix.multiplyMM(modelViewProjection, 0, vuforiaAppSession
.getProjectionMatrix().getData(), 0, modelViewMatrix, 0);
GLES20.glUseProgram(bottleShaderProgramID);
// Draw the cube:
GLES20.glEnable(GLES20.GL_CULL_FACE);
GLES20.glCullFace(GLES20.GL_BACK);
GLES20.glVertexAttribPointer(vertexHandleBottle, 3, GLES20.GL_FLOAT, false, 0, cubeObject.getVertices());
GLES20.glVertexAttribPointer(normalHandleBottle, 3, GLES20.GL_FLOAT, false, 0, cubeObject.getNormals());
GLES20.glEnableVertexAttribArray(vertexHandleBottle);
GLES20.glEnableVertexAttribArray(normalHandleBottle);
// add light position and color
final float[] lightPositionInModelSpace=new float[] {0.0f, 1.1f, 0.0f, 1.0f};
GLES20.glUniform4f(lightPositionHandleBottle, lightPositionInModelSpace[0], lightPositionInModelSpace[1],
lightPositionInModelSpace[2], lightPositionInModelSpace[3]);
GLES20.glUniform3f(lightColorHandleBottle, 0.9f, 0.9f, 0.9f);
// create the normalMatrix for lighting calculations
final float[] normalMatrix=new float[16];
Matrix.invertM(normalMatrix, 0, modelViewMatrix, 0);
Matrix.transposeM(normalMatrix, 0, normalMatrix, 0);
// pass the normalMatrix to the shader
GLES20.glUniformMatrix4fv(normalMatrixHandleBottle, 1, false, normalMatrix, 0);
// extract the camera position for lighting calculations (last column of matrix)
// GLES20.glUniform3f(cameraPositionHandleBottle, normalMatrix[12], normalMatrix[13], normalMatrix[14]);
// set material properties
GLES20.glUniform3f(matAmbientHandleBottle, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
GLES20.glUniform3f(matDiffuseHandleBottle, 0.1f, 0.9f, 0.1f);
// pass the model view matrix to the shader
GLES20.glUniformMatrix4fv(modelViewMatrixHandleBottle, 1, false, modelViewMatrix, 0);
// pass the model view projection matrix to the shader
// the "transpose" parameter must be "false" according to the spec, anything else is an error
GLES20.glUniformMatrix4fv(mvpMatrixHandleBottle, 1, false, modelViewProjection, 0);
GLES20.glDrawElements(GLES20.GL_TRIANGLES,
cubeObject.getNumObjectIndex(), GLES20.GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, cubeObject.getIndices());
GLES20.glDisable(GLES20.GL_CULL_FACE);
// disable the enabled arrays after everything has been rendered
GLES20.glDisableVertexAttribArray(vertexHandleBottle);
GLES20.glDisableVertexAttribArray(normalHandleBottle);
ShaderFactory.checkGLError("MultiTargets renderFrame");
}
GLES20.glDisable(GLES20.GL_BLEND);
GLES20.glDisable(GLES20.GL_DEPTH_TEST);
Renderer.getInstance().end();
}
My vertex shader:
attribute vec4 vertexPosition;
attribute vec3 vertexNormal;
uniform mat4 modelViewProjectionMatrix;
uniform mat4 modelViewMatrix;
uniform mat4 normalMatrix;
// lighting
uniform vec4 uLightPosition;
uniform vec3 uLightColor;
// material
uniform vec3 uMatAmbient;
uniform vec3 uMatDiffuse;
// pass to fragment shader
varying vec3 vNormalEyespace;
varying vec3 vVertexEyespace;
varying vec4 vLightPositionEyespace;
varying vec3 vNormal;
varying vec4 vVertex;
void main()
{
// we can just take vec3() of a vec4 and it will take the first 3 entries
vNormalEyespace = vec3(normalMatrix * vec4(vertexNormal, 1.0));
vNormal = vertexNormal;
vVertexEyespace = vec3(modelViewMatrix * vertexPosition);
vVertex = vertexPosition;
// light position
vLightPositionEyespace = modelViewMatrix * uLightPosition;
gl_Position = modelViewProjectionMatrix * vertexPosition;
}
And my fragment shader:
precision highp float; //apparently necessary to force same precision as in vertex shader
//lighting
uniform vec4 uLightPosition;
uniform vec3 uLightColor;
//material
uniform vec3 uMatAmbient;
uniform vec3 uMatDiffuse;
//from vertex shader
varying vec3 vNormalEyespace;
varying vec3 vVertexEyespace;
varying vec4 vLightPositionEyespace;
varying vec3 vNormal;
varying vec4 vVertex;
void main()
{
vec3 normalModel = normalize(vNormal);
vec3 normalEyespace = normalize(vNormalEyespace);
vec3 lightDirectionModel = normalize(uLightPosition.xyz - vVertex.xyz);
vec3 lightDirectionEyespace = normalize(vLightPositionEyespace.xyz - vVertexEyespace.xyz);
vec3 ambientTerm = uMatAmbient;
vec3 diffuseTerm = uMatDiffuse * uLightColor;
// calculate the lambert factor via cosine law
float diffuseLambert = max(dot(normalEyespace, lightDirectionEyespace), 0.0);
// Attenuate the light based on distance.
float distance = length(vLightPositionEyespace.xyz - vVertexEyespace.xyz);
float diffuseLambertAttenuated = diffuseLambert * (1.0 / (1.0 + (0.01 * distance * distance)));
diffuseTerm = diffuseLambertAttenuated * diffuseTerm;
gl_FragColor = vec4(ambientTerm + diffuseTerm, 1.0);
}
