Point Sprites

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1

Hi,





I’m trying to do a particles system with point sprites. But I’ve got an error in the windows emulator


when I use the gl_PointCoord variable. The output is:





"Fragment shaders uses varying gl_TexCoord but vertex shader does not write to it."





The source code of my shaders is the following:





[vertex shader]


attribute highp   vec4 inVertex;





uniform mediump mat4 MVPMatrix;





void main()


{


     gl_PointSize = 200.0;


     gl_Position = MVPMatrix * inVertex;


}








[fragment shader]


uniform sampler2D sTexture;





void main()


{


    gl_FragColor = texture2D(sTexture, gl_PointCoord);


}





As a first approach I was only trying to draw a textured point on the screen:





        GLfloat vertex[] = {0.0f,0.0f,0.0f};


     glEnableVertexAttribArray(VERTEX_ARRAY);


     glVertexAttribPointer (VERTEX_ARRAY, 4, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, vertex);


     


     glDrawArrays(GL_POINTS, 0, 1);





If I use a vec2 coordinate instead of the gl_PointCoord, it draws a point sprite with uniform color.


But with the gl_PointCoord it fails.





Am I missing something?





Thanks

2

Hi alvalea,

strange error. What is your hardware? Do you know which OpenGL version and which extensions your driver supports?

Could you try this fragment shader:

void main()                       
{                                       
    gl_FragColor = vec4(gl_PointCoord.x, gl_PointCoord.y, 0.0, 1.0);
}                                       

3

I’m trying it with an Intel integrated chip Q45/Q43. The supported OpenGL version is 2.0.


The gl_PointCoord coordinates are always (0,0).

4


Strange.



Well, "gl_PointCoord" is a feature of GLSL 1.20; thus, you might have to add the line



#version 120



at the start of your fragment shader. (Of course, you should also check whether GLSL 1.20 is supported on your hardware/driver. OpenGL 2.0 only requires GLSL 1.10; thus, this might be an issue.)



If this doesn't work, I would suggest that you try to get the fragment
shader to work in (desktop) OpenGL. If it doesn't work in (desktop)
OpenGL on your hardware/driver, I would assume that it also doesn't work
in the OpenGL ES emulator. (In desktop OpenGL you probably have to
glEnable GL_POINT_SPRITE and GL_VERTEX_PROGRAM_POINT_SIZE but apart from
this, the code should be very similar.)



If the code works in (desktop) OpenGL but not in the OpenGL ES emulator, I would assume it's a bug in the emulator. :/







Martin Kraus2010-11-29 13:02:17
5

If I add the line ‘#version 120’ the function PVRTShaderLoadFromFile fails.


I guess that the problem is that the hardware doesn’t support GLSL 1.20.


I will try to test it in another hardware.

6

alvelea,

I just tested it and the OpenGL ES emulator seems to reject anything but version “#version 100”. Actually, GLSL version 1.00 for OpenGL ES appears to be based on GLSL version 1.20 for OpenGL.

Thus, I guess you have to make sure to run the emulator on hardware that supports GLSL 1.20.

7

Ok, thanks a lot :slight_smile: