Questions tagged [vertex-attributes]
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Are MTLVertexAttributeDescriptors necessary? Why are they needed?
I've been learning Metal for iOS / OSX, and I began by following a Ray Wenderlich tutorial. This tutorial works fine but it makes no mention of MTLVertexAttributeDescriptors.
Now that I'm developing my own app, I'm getting weird glitches and I'm…
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Why does OpenGL drawing fail when vertex attrib array zero is disabled?
I was having extreme trouble getting a vertex shader of mine to run under OpenGL 3.3 core on an ATI driver:
#version 150
uniform mat4 graph_matrix, view_matrix, proj_matrix;
uniform bool align_origin;
attribute vec2 graph_position;
attribute vec2…
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Can you tell if a vertex attribute is enabled from within a vertex shader?
I was wondering if there was a way to tell if a vertex attribute is enabled from within a vertex shader? I know that if the vertex attribute is disabled all the values will be treated as 0.0, so I could do a test like the following:
if (attribute ==…
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What is the difference between glVertexAttribDivisor and glVertexBindingDivisor?
I was looking for ways to associate attributes with arbitrary groupings of verticies, at first instancing appeared to be the only way for me to accomplish this, but then I stumbled up this question and this answer states :
However what is possible…
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How do I make this simple OpenGL code (works in a "lenient" 3.3 and 4.2 profile) work in a strict 3.2 and 4.2 core profile?
I had some 3D code that I noticed wouldn't render in a strict core profile but fine in a "normal" (not explicitly requested-as-core-only) profile context. To isolate the issue, I have written the smallest simplest possible OpenGL program drawing…
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Interleaved vs non-interleaved vertex buffers
This seems like a question which has been answered throughout time for one IHV or another but recently I have have been trying to come to a consensus about vertex layouts and the best practices for a modern renderer across all IHVs and…
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OpenGL GLSL Send color as integer to shader to be decomposed as vec4 RGBA
I can send color to shader as 4 floats - no problem. However I want to send it as integer (or unsigned integer, doesn't really matter, what matters is 32 bits) and be decomposed in vec4 on shader.
I'm using OpenTK as C# wrapper for OpenGL (although…
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Opengl - rendering different vertex formats
I am looking for a nice way to render mesh objects with different vertex layouts wihtout large effort (e.g. defining a renderer class for each vertex layout). You can see some examples of different vertex formats below.
enum EVertexFormat
{
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How does Blender calculate vertex normals?
I'm attempting to calculate vertex normals for various game assets. The normals I calculate are used for "inflating" the model (to draw behind the real model producing a thick outline).
I currently compute the normal for each face and average all…
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Can I have multiple GL_ARRAY_BUFFER buffers?
So I was looking at another SO question regarding the command glVertexAttribPointer and I ran into a slight confusion. The accepted answer to this question explains,
But there's an additional implied piece of state that is also stored away for…
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OpenGL buffers - Stride vs Tightly packed
What are the pros and cons for using strided vertex buffers vs tighly packed buffers for each attribute? What I mean is for instance:
Stride: xyzrgb xyzrgb xyzrgb
Tight: xyzxyzxyz rgbrgbrgb
At first glance it might look like you easily can change…
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how to describe packed_float3 in Metal vertex shader MTLVertexAttributeDescriptor?
I am passing an array of structs to my Metal shader vertex function. The struct looks like this:
struct Vertex {
var x,y,z: Float // position data
var r,g,b,a: Float // color data
var s,t: Float // texture coordinates
var…
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Passing attributes to OpenGL vertex shader acts strangely
The problem:
Outcome 1: I pass a vertex attribute to the shader, the program runs for 5 seconds, then the graphics driver stops responding and recovers but the program doesn't.
Outcome 2: I cap the framerate at 60 then do the same thing. The program…
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how to split values from coordinates in OpenGL vertex buffer objects
For drawing a heatmap in OpenGL we want to give each point x,y, and value.
We could just store a vbo with these values and split it into two vertexattrib pointers:
glVertexAttribPointer(0, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 3*sizeof(float),…
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OpenGL - Can I draw non-indexed when index-buffer is set for VAO?
I set up a VAO, binding vertex-buffers to it for vertex attributes, but also set index-buffer (With glVertexArrayElementBuffer). Does that restrict it so it only works with glDrawElements type of commands, or will it work with glDrawArrays…
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