A program that runs on the GPU to determine output colors for pixels. Also known as a fragment shader.

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DirectX11 pixel shader in pipeline is missing

I'm writing a program which displays a MS3D model using DirectX, and unfortunately, the result shows nothing on the screen. When I use the Graphics Debugger from Visual Studio 13, I notice that the ...
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GLSL blur shader algorithm results in a lumpy blur?

I'm writing a Gaussian blur shader and it's coming along pretty well. However, when I run it on a circle, the result is lumpy. I'm using a simple nested for loop to create the blur. Here's the code ...
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Is there a way to optimize this 2D lighting effect shader? [duplicate]

I'm doing a little 2D game in C++ with Direct3D 11. In the game I want to render a sort of shadow that covers part of the screen: To do this I am using this pixel shader: float4 PS_Main( PS_Input ...
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Why would I lose the D3D device during an HLSL unroll?

I have a pixel shader that downsamples a texture from one size to another. The downsample shader uses a nested 'for' loop to traverse the uv coordinates. When the for loop executes more than four ...
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Shader which supports vertex colors and pixel lights?

From my question at Unity Answers: Hello everyone, I'm facing a bit of a problem here: I need a shader which has the ability to colour individual vertices and be lit pixel by pixel. Until recently, I ...
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problem using glm::lookAt and glm::perspective

I'm trying to change the code from the 22th tutorial at http://ogldev.atspace.co.uk/, using the GLM library, but the result seems wrong. The problem is shown in the below picture: While it should be: ...
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Can't understand the Schlick model formula

I'm trying to implement the Schlick shading model in the fragment shader. I took the formulas from Karsten Schwenk's "a survey of shading models for real-time rendering": First of all I don't ...
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Strauss model : no specular component [duplicate]

I implemented the Strauss model with the metalness, transparency and smoothness parameters, taking the formulas from the book "Programming vertex geometry and pixel shaders", this is how I implemented ...
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Two pass blur shader using libgdx tile map renderer

I am trying to apply the following technique: blur effect using two pass shader to my libgdx game using the OrthogonalTiledMapRenderer. The idea is to blur the background wich is also a tilemap but ...
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Ward model implementation: specular component too weak

I'm trying to implement the Ward shading model, the anisotropic, computationally efficient version: This is how I made it: float alphaX=0.5, alphaY=0.5; // asinotropic roughness float ...
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How can I compute spotlight attenuation when I only have a spotlight cutoff angle?

I am trying to compute the spot light attenuation, though I don't have a spotCosCutoff (cosine of the spotlight cutoff angle) predefined variable in the shader so I have to compute it myself. This is ...
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Compiling 2 Dimensional Constant Arrays Right into Pixel Shader to use as Lookup Table

I want to use a small 2 dimensional look up table in a fragment shader, but I don't want to pay for the performance cost of fetching it from memory for every fragment. Is it feasible/reasonable to ...
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Ashikhmin-Shirley model implementation: ugly result

I am trying to implement the Ashikhmin-Shirley model using these formulas: This is the GLSL 1.2 fragment shader code: uniform vec4 materialAmbient, materialDiffuse, materialSpecular; uniform ...
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What is the depth that a pixel shader may output? Is it necessary to write Depth?

In DirectX11, what does the depth that a Pixel Shader can output mean? Does a pixel shader need to output a depth so that we "write" the depth? If not, why would we output it? For any doubts, I'm ...
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Multiple pixel shader passes

I currently have a pixel shader that calculates the texture and I have another that calculates the light. I want another shader that does both. What I would ideally like to do is instead of creating a ...
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directional lightning

I have managed to get a point light working, but I am facing problem with directional lightning. Fragment shader uniform vec4 lightColour ; uniform vec3 lightPos ; uniform float lightRadius ; ...
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How can I remove branches from a fragment shader function?

I have a fragment shader, when I've carefully managed to remove most branching decisions, as I have found out through research here that they are bad. But I have one function that I just can't work ...
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Alpha interpolation in a pixel shader

How does the interpolation in a fragment shader work when it comes to the alpha parameter? I'm programming a shader with SharpDX, DirectX11. My idea is to interpolate 2 3d points of a segment, so ...
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How can I find a position between 4 vertices in a fragment shader?

I'm creating a shader with SharpDX (DirectX11 in C#) that takes a segment (2 points) from the output of a Vertex Shader and then passes them to a Geometry Shader, which converts this line into a ...
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How many times fragment shader is executed?

I have an OpenGL code, with 3 different shader programs. I have a simple question, I know fragment shaders are executed for every every fragment in the scene. But is there a way using which we can ...
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Computing pixel's screen position in a vertex shader: right or wrong?

I am building a deferred rendering engine and I have a question. The article I took the sample code from suggested computing screen position of the pixel as follows: VertexShaderFunction() { ... ...
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Why i can not load a simple pixel shader effect (. fx) file in xna?

I just want to load a simple *.fx file into my project to make a (pixel shader) effect. But whenever I try to compile my project, I get the following error in visual studio Error List: Errors ...
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Color grading, shaders and 3d textures

I'm trying to implement color correction with the 3d lookup table. The lookup table is actually just a 2d texture 256x16 and consists of 16 squares which one is 16x16. When it comes to rendering, I ...
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How do I align textures properly with an exploding sprite / breakable body?

I'm working on a game based on Box2D and Starling which includes breakable bodies - bodies/objects that when hit with sufficient force break apart (into smaller pieces). I've managed the physics part ...
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Creating a fragment shader to darken a white texture over time - OpenGL GLSL

So as a part of learning OpenGL, I've now decided to try and be a bit more creative with shaders, as part of a practice game I'm making using C/OpenGL. I'm completely new when it comes to working ...
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OpenGL additive blending not working as expected

I am trying to achieve additive blending with point sprites. When the sprites overlap, all I get is solid red, when I expect to get a smooth blend from red->yellow->white. My sprite texture has all ...
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GLSL Shader - Change Hue/Saturation/Brightness

I'm trying to change the hue of an image using a GLSL fragment shader. I want to achieve something similar to Photoshop's Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer. In the following image you can see what I've ...
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using heightmap to simulate 3d in an isometric 2d game

I saw a video of an 2.5d engine that used heightmaps to do zbuffering. Is this hard to do? I have more or less no idea of Opengl(lwjgl) and that stuff. I could imagine, that you compare each pixel ...
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Vertex and Fragment Shader worldNormal

How to access/calculate worldNormal in a Vertex and Fragment shader ? Thanks a lot !
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How do I implement 2D shadows cast between layers?

How could I implement 2d shadows that are cast by objects in a different layer? NOT like the dynamic lighting in the well known tutorial from Catalin Zima : But like the shadows of the pipes in ...
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Per-fragment lighting system behaves like ambient lighting system

This is the relevant section of my fragment shader varying vec3 normal; varying vec3 halfv; ... vec4 color = ambient * gl_LightSource[0].ambient; vec3 n = normalize(normal); float ...
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Writing to a D3DFMT_R32F render target clamps to 1

I'm currently implementing a picking system. I render some objects in a frame buffer, which has a render target, which has the D3DFMT_R32F format. For each mesh, I set an integer constant ...
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Better solution for boolean mixing?

Sorry if this question has been asked in the past, but searching Google and here didn't yield relevant results, so here goes. I'm working on a fragment shader that implements both conditional/boolean ...
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Volumetric Fog Shader - Camera Issue

I am trying to build an infinite fog shader. This fog is applied on a 3D plane. For the moment I have a Z-Depth Fog. And I encounter some issues. As you can see in the screenshot, there are two views. ...
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Fog shader camera problem

I have some difficulties with my vertex-fragment fog shader in Unity. I have a good visual result but the problem is that the gradient is based on the camera's position, it moves as the camera moves. ...
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Defining lines from a heightmap

To a pixel shader of a 2D game, I'm passing a 1-row heightmap that holds the height in UV coordinates of evenly distributed points throughout the texture I'm drawing, but as for n points there will ...
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cocos2dx - Custom Fragment Shader and CCRenderTexture

I have a CCRenderTexture that is filled with a sprite when the scene is loaded, as follows, canvas = CCRenderTexture::create(this->getContentSize().width, this->getContentSize().height); ...
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What is the interval of fragment-shader code execution?

Without any intended delay, is the code of a fragment-shader run once per frame? If not, how often will the code be executed? (I'm new to shaders: I'm talking about glsl if it makes any difference)
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Opengl shader questions

I'm currently building a shader that takes a 2D texture sampler and uses UV coordinates to map it. This works fine for all textured objects. However, I'm having a bit of a problem as I'm trying to ...
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3D Distortion Effect

I'm trying to make a distortion effect similar to this: However I'm not making a 2d screen space effect. I'm applying it to a 3d scene and I want it to be placed IN the world, so it can be blocked ...
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GL ES: Fragment shader optimization

Summary: I get FPS slowdown as soon as I try to tint the sprites (i.e: multiply texture with color in the fragment shader) Details: Hardware: iPod touch 4 I am drawing 700 sprites on the screen ...
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Shader registers for different graphics card

The title is not very explicative, so i'll try to make myself clear. I have two "working"(on which i work on) PCs : a desktop that runs an NVIDIA GT440 an a laptop with a RADEON HD 4650. I have a ...
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What is a Fragment Pipe?

I remember someone saying "24 fragment pipes on nVidia 7800" in a presentation. Am I correct in saying that a fragment is the data that can generate a pixel in the frame buffer? Or are fragments the ...
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Optimizing performance of a heavy fragment shader

I need help optimizing the following set of shaders: Vertex: precision mediump float; uniform vec2 rubyTextureSize; attribute vec4 vPosition; attribute vec2 a_TexCoordinate; varying vec2 tc; ...
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I have a frag shader, one with an empty s_lightMap, how and why is it effecting the output?

I have an image of concrete rocks of different shades of colors, and I'm applying this shader, but without referencing s_lightMap's uniform in my program: precision mediump float; ...
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Weird rendering issue when applying lightmap through HLSL

I have a weird issue when trying to render the lightmaps in my game. Please see the following screenshots. Note how the scene looks up close with the lightmaps enabled. Note how that same part of ...
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Realtime fisheye to cubic or spherical panorama transformations with OpenGL or pixelshaders

I'd like to transform a sequence of circular fisheye-images to cubic or spherical panorama images to be used in a panorama-viewer based on OpenGL. The viewer-part is nemas problemas but the transform ...
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GL_EXT_shadow_samplers killing my shader

I have the following fragment shader for my scene #extension GL_EXT_shadow_samplers : require ... vec4 color = texture2D(uTextureUnit0, varTexCoord0); if (colorTransformEnabled != 0) { vec3 ...
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How to alter the angle of texture projection

I'm currently working on a 3Dish game; it's on a grid, with 3D props and the camera looking down on the grid at about 45º, but I want to use 2D sprites for the player and NPCs. Currently, I'm using a ...
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How to do Triplanar Texturing

Ok maybe i'm missing something because its getting late and i've been programming now for about 72 hours straight (minus a nap or 2) ... I'm trying to write a shader for unity that will apply ...