OpenGL

Vertex Displacement Mapping in GLSL Now Available on Radeon!

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As I said in this news, the release of Catalyst 8.10 BETA comes with a nice bugfix: vertex texture fetching is now operational on Radeon (at least on my Radeon HD 4850). From 2 or 3 months, Catalyst makes it possible to fetch texture from inside a vertex shader. You can see with GPU Caps […]

Saturate function in GLSL

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During the conversion of shaders written in Cg/HLSL, we often find the saturate() function. This function is not valid in GLSL even though on NVIDIA, the GLSL compiler accepts it (do not forget that NVIDIA’s GLSL compiler is based on Cg compiler). But ATI’s GLSL compiler will reject saturate() with a nice error. This function […]

GLSL support in Intel graphics drivers

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A user from oZone3D.Net forum asked me some info about the GLSL support of Intel graphics chips. It’s wellknown (sorry Intel) that Intel has a bad OpenGL support in its Windows drivers and even if Intel’s graphics drivers support OpenGL 1.5, there is still a lack of GLSL support. We can’t find the GL_ARB_shading_language_100 extension […]

GLSL float to RGBA8 encoder

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Packing a [0-1] float value into a 4D vector where each component will be a 8-bits integer: vec4 packFloatToVec4i(const float value) { const vec4 bitSh = vec4(256.0*256.0*256.0, 256.0*256.0, 256.0, 1.0); const vec4 bitMsk = vec4(0.0, 1.0/256.0, 1.0/256.0, 1.0/256.0); vec4 res = fract(value * bitSh); res -= res.xxyz * bitMsk; return res; } Unpacking a [0-1] […]