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OpenGL Cubemap skybox edge issue
I implemented a skybox into my program using a tutorial, and using the provided 6 textures from that tutorial to make a cube map texture, my skybox looked fine. However, ever since then every other ...
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Is using Spherical Harmonics still viable as a technique nowadays?
I've been implementing spherical harmonics in my Engine for learning purpose.
I was wondering if Spherical Harmonics are still used in modern engine or if they moved on to the more simple cubemaps or ...
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How to put different textures on different sides of a Cube in DirectX 11?
I have recently learned how to texture a cube in DirectX with a single texture but I am now trying to put multiple textures on a cube. If your confused the photo below should clarify.
I am aware of ...
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Opengl - Omnidirectionnal light (point) shadow mapping bug
I am facing a really frustrating problem. After looking at a lot of tutorials (probably all existing on net, not kidding), i tried to do the point light shadow mapping using a cube texture.
The ...
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Control cubemap reflection amount from metallic and smoothness properties
I have a custom surface shader, and I want to use the reflections from the reflection/environment probe. In the default standard shader (for unity), the reflection amount is controlled by the "...
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OpenGL cubemap binding
I'm experimenting a strange behaviour of textures inside my shaders.
Basically I need and bind two cubemap textures inside my shader but only one gets actually bound.
I've tried swapping the two ...
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Environment mapping without cubemap (need coordinates projection)
I'm working on a project with C++ and glsl (4.1).
I have implemented a mirror object which is a plane at height 0 that works as follow:
I render the scene with a MVP computed such that the camera ...
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How to Load and Apply a Cube Map with DDS Texture Loader?
So I have been spending a lot of time recently implementing a working skybox/skysphere, and have almost completed it. The last thing that I need to do is to load my given texture, a skybox texture ...
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Efficiency - Cubemap or Raytraced reflection?
I'm an amateur in 3D game development. The thing I want to know is shading related.
For reflection purpose, which will be the efficient way? Either "Realtime render to Cubemap" or "Ray trace based" ...
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GL_INVALID_OPERATION in glGenerateMipmap(incomplete cube map)
I'm trying to learn OpenGL and i'm using SOIL to load images.
I have the following piece of code:
GLuint texID = 0;
bool loadCubeMap(const char * baseFileName) {
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
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Cube map or 2D texture map
I'm trying to map quadsphere with COBE spherical cube (CSC) projection in OpenGL (wanna map planets). I managed to create a 2D texture and it works well except seams at edges.
Then I learned that ...
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How to attach a framebuffer to a whole cube map from a GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_ARRAY?
I'm trying to make shadow cube maps in an array. I want to draw each shadow map with a single pass using a geometry shader, which I read about here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/462721/...
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Issue creating a dynamic seemless cube map
I have a function for building a cube map, given a location in space. I also have a system for displaying cubemaps (either loaded from images or given as a texture handle), and they work fine and are ...
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How do I store an FBO'S as a cube map?
As of late I've been trying to implement Cubemaps in my engine, and have managed to get the rendering side of them working. Currently, I'm trying to implement a function for creating them, but I ...
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CubeMap - Why size of skybox cube has no effect?
I have normal skybox via CubeMap, but i noticed that the size of the cube has no effect. I would expect that when i have cube size 20.0, i will see different result than with cube of size 1000.0 (same ...
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Unity - Water Cube (to 2D game)
I wonder if you can create a cube of water within the unity!
I'm starting to use the Unity, and took a sought as to whether there was already something like this ... but have not found any tutorial
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OpenGL Depth Cubemap with Geometry Shader Not Rendering Correctly
I was having some trouble with cubemaps in OpenGL, and was hoping to get some help. I've been following a tutorial about point light shadow mapping using cubemaps, where a geometry shader is used to ...
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Cubemaps turn black OpenGL GLSL Java LWJGL
Recently I tried to add cubemaps to my 3D-rendering engine. The objects with a cubemap now turn completely black.
This is how I load my cubemap:
public static int loadCubeMap(String filename)
{
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Cube map for texturing edge distortions
I am using a cube map to texture a sphere and all is well except the seams that become very noticeable near the corners of the cube.
I have tried to correct the sampling coordinates in the shader, ...
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Environment mapping - cube mapping using OpenGL
I'm trying to do cube mapping.
Problem is that I'm getting this:
This is what I get when I rotate it:
But it should look like this
Here is code for vertex shader
varying vec2 tex_coord;
void ...
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Normal Mapping a Cubemap
I posted a question on Stackoverflow and it was suggested that it would be better asked here.
I have a sphere. It was created via the icosphere method outlined here: http://blog.andreaskahler.com/...
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Is it possible to generate a Spheremap from a Texture2D in Unity at run-time?
I was trying to create a spheremap from a Texture2D for a skybox at run-time (Standalone build) in Unity. Does anyone know if this is possible and how to do that in Unity?
In the editor you can set ...
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Stepping through 3D noise to generate a cubemap for a sphere
This is somewhat related to a previous question I asked
How to create a seamless cubemap noise texture?
I have managed to successfully step through a 3D noise function to create a cubemap texture ...
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How to create a seamless cubemap noise texture?
I have, so far, been able to create the vertices and UV coords etc for a sphere that would be textured with a cube map. I have also successfully loaded a cube texture from file and applied it to my ...
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OpenGL: Avoid geometry shader for cubemap framebuffer
I want to render an environment map into a cubemap framebuffer but I dislike the fact, that I have to use the geometry shader to set gl_Layer because the geometry shader would be a basic passthrough ...
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How to create custom cubemap images?
I managed to use cube maps in OpenGL to get reflection and refraction effects. So far I used images from this site, however, I want to create my own set of images to use in a cubemap, the idea is just ...
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Reflection/environment mapping
I'm implementing reflection/environment mapping using a cubemap. I have it working for the most part but when I move my camera around, I see the same area reflected on the object. I am calculating the ...
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How to calculate reflection vector from point sprite sphere?
So far I achieved building a cube map following this tutorial. Then I drew three points using glDrawArrays(GL_POINTS,0,3) and calculate the normals based on a sphere.
To compute the incoming light ...
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How do reflections work for large flat surfaces?
I understand how reflections work for objects. A cubemap would be rendered around a certain point in 3D space, usually at the center of the object that the reflection is to be applied to, and that is ...
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Skybox rendering
I am sorry if this is trivial, but I got into OpenGL just very very recently.
I am trying to render skybox (with cubemaps) and this is what I have done:
Created a VBO with vertices positions (36 of ...
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Skybox: OpenGL texCUBE vs a textured cube
In OpenGL, the typical way that I've seen to set up a skybox using cubemapping is to create a cube in camera space, prepare a cubemap sampler with the appropriate six-sided texture, and then in the ...
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Irradiance cubemap to spherical harmonics conversion
What are advantages of using spherical harmonics instead of irradiance cubemap? Are there any common used methods for conversion?
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Why are cube map axes sometimes labelled incorrectly?
In both 3ds Max (which uses a right-handed coordinate system) and Unity (which uses a left-handed coordinate system), the cube map faces labelled "left" and "right" show the view facing the opposite ...
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Understanding how texCUBE works and writing cubemaps properly into a cube rendertarget
My goal is to create accurate reflections, sampled from a dynamic cubemap, for specific 3d objects (mostly lights) in XNA 4.0.
To sample the cubemap I compute the 3d reflection vector in a classic ...
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Using textureGrad for anisotropic integration approximation
I'm trying to develop a real time rendering method using real time acquired envmap (cubemap) for lightning.
This implies that my envmap can change as often as every frame and I therefore cannot use ...
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Get the game state using Multithreading in Java Monkey Engine 3
I’ve been trying out Java Monkey’s multi threading recently via the wiki’s tutorial. Since I just wanted to test a prototype clinet, I made a program which creates some cubes using the ‘Cubes’ library ...
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GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP min/mag filter problem
I found it hard getting min/mag filtering to work with cubemap texture. In the screenshot-attachment I've created a cube using a cubemap texture, and also a grid of planes using a 2D texture. For both ...
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Drawing cube map and texture array on NVidia cards doesn't work
I have small problem with shadow maps preview. After binding shadow framebuffer I bind proper texture to store depth in it and then render the whole scene. When I read that values in shader to ...
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Texture errors in CubeMap
I am trying to apply this texture as a cubemap. This is my result:
Clearly I am doing something with my texture coordinates, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what. I don't even see a ...
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Error while reading TGA file and doing Texture Cube map
In my program, i read a TGA file with a function like this:
char* LoadTGA(char* filename, int* width, int* height, int* bpp);
As you can see, this function: return a char array of image data (...
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Implementing a skybox with GLSL version 330
I am trying to get a skybox working with OpenGL 3.3 and GLSL version 330.
I could not find a completely modern OGL skybox tutorial anywhere on the web, so I modernised an older one (using ...
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glFramebufferTexture2D gives corruption with cube map textures
I am using glFramebufferTexture2D with cube map textures but it gives corruption in texture. draw_cube() function works perfectly when i draw that on default framebuffer.
GLenum types[]={...
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Is a Single Texture Cube Map Possible?
I'm currently developing a test project to explore OpenGL 3 texturing abilities. I have a simple cube, made of 8 vertices and 36 indices. I want each of the cubes faces to have a different texture, so ...
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E_FAIL: An undetermined error occurred (-2147467259) when loading a cube texture
I'm trying to implement a skybox into my engine, and I'm having some trouble loading the image as a cube map. Everything works (but it doesn't look right) if I don't load using an ...
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How do you rotate a cube map?
I'm looking for suggestions on this
Say you have a cube map. You want to rotate it as efficiently as possible.
You can render the cube map, rotate the camera, and render the scene to another cube ...
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OpenGL/GLSL: Render to cube map?
I'm trying to figure out how to render my scene to a cube map. I've been stuck on this for a bit and figured I would ask you guys for some help. I'm new to OpenGL and this is the first time I'm using ...
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How do you create a fractal cube-map?
I want to create a map similar to how Mincraft and other related games do. I just haven't the faintest clue on how to do so. Can anyone point me to a decent tutorial or give me a decent run through? I ...
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Is a dynamic enviroment map using pincushion curvilinear perspective projection possible?
I'm wondering if it is possible to generate a dynamic spherical environment map using a single frame render using a pincushion curvilinear perspective projection matrix (phew, that's a mouthful)?
I'...
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OpenGL - resize texture when using cubemap
I want to resize my texture. I am using cubemap to compute reflection. I want to use this cubemap to draw skybox. Skybox is drawn but I want to resize texture down, because it is dilated. As I wrote ...
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How do I create a sky box with OpenGL ES 2.0?
Can you give me hint to any good sky box example in OpenGL ES 2.0? I have found only OpenGL and does not work for me.
I am doing it this way:
Initialization:
glUseProgram(m_programSkyBox.Program);
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