OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook

OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook - Third Edition

By : David Wolff

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OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook - Third Edition

By: David Wolff

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Overview of this book

OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook, Third Edition provides easy-to-follow recipes that first walk you through the theory and background behind each technique, and then proceed to showcase and explain the GLSL and OpenGL code needed to implement them. The book begins by familiarizing you with beginner-level topics such as compiling and linking shader programs, saving and loading shader binaries (including SPIR-V), and using an OpenGL function loader library. We then proceed to cover basic lighting and shading effects. After that, you'll learn to use textures, produce shadows, and use geometry and tessellation shaders. Topics such as particle systems, screen-space ambient occlusion, deferred rendering, depth-based tessellation, and physically based rendering will help you tackle advanced topics. OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook, Third Edition also covers advanced topics such as shadow techniques (including the two of the most common techniques: shadow maps and shadow volumes). You will learn how to use noise in shaders and how to use compute shaders. The book provides examples of modern shading techniques that can be used as a starting point for programmers to expand upon to produce modern, interactive, 3D computer-graphics applications.

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Preface

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Getting Started with GLSL

Introduction

Using a loading library to access the latest OpenGL functionality

Using GLM for mathematics

Determining the GLSL and OpenGL version

Compiling a shader

Linking a shader program

Saving and loading a shader binary

Loading a SPIR-V shader program

Working with GLSL Programs

Introduction

Sending data to a shader using vertex attributes and vertex buffer objects

Getting a list of active vertex input attributes and locations

Sending data to a shader using uniform variables

Getting a list of active uniform variables

Using uniform blocks and uniform buffer objects

Using program pipelines

Getting debug messages

Building a C++ shader program class

The Basics of GLSL Shaders

Introduction

Diffuse and per-vertex shading with a single point light source

Implementing the Phong reflection model

Using functions in shaders

Implementing two-sided shading

Implementing flat shading

Using subroutines to select shader functionality

Discarding fragments to create a perforated look

Lighting and Shading

Introduction

Shading with multiple positional lights

Shading with a directional light source

Using per-fragment shading for improved realism

The Blinn-Phong reflection model

Simulating a spotlight

Creating a cartoon shading effect

Simulating fog

A physically-based reflection model

Using Textures

Introduction

Applying a 2D texture

Applying multiple textures

Using alpha maps to discard pixels

Using normal maps

Parallax mapping

Steep parallax mapping with self shadowing

Simulating reflection with cube maps

Simulating refraction with cube maps

Applying a projected texture

Rendering to a texture

Using sampler objects

Diffuse image-based lighting

Image Processing and Screen Space Techniques

Introduction

Applying an edge detection filter

Applying a Gaussian blur filter

Implementing HDR lighting with tone mapping

Creating a bloom effect

Using gamma correction to improve image quality

Using multisample anti-aliasing

Using deferred shading

Screen space ambient occlusion

Configuring the depth test

Implementing order-independent transparency

Using Geometry and Tessellation Shaders

Introduction

Point sprites with the geometry shader

Drawing a wireframe on top of a shaded mesh

Drawing silhouette lines using the geometry shader

Tessellating a curve

Tessellating a 2D quad

Tessellating a 3D surface

Tessellating based on depth

Shadows

Introduction

Rendering shadows with shadow maps

Anti-aliasing shadow edges with PCF

Creating soft shadow edges with random sampling

Creating shadows using shadow volumes and the geometry shader

Using Noise in Shaders

Introduction

Creating a noise texture using GLM

Creating a seamless noise texture

Creating a cloud-like effect

Creating a wood-grain effect

Creating a disintegration effect

Creating a paint-spatter effect

Creating a rusted metal effect

Creating a night-vision effect

Particle Systems and Animation

Introduction

Animating a surface with vertex displacement

Creating a particle fountain

Creating a particle system using transform feedback

Creating a particle system using instanced meshes

Simulating fire with particles

Simulating smoke with particles

Using Compute Shaders

Introduction

Implementing a particle simulation with the compute shader

Creating a fractal texture using the compute shader

Using the compute shader for cloth simulation

Implementing an edge detection filter with the compute shader

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About the author

David Wolff is a professor in the computer science department at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU). He received a PhD in Physics and an MS in computer science from Oregon State University. He has been teaching computer graphics to undergraduates at PLU for over 17 years, using OpenGL.

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Dr. Muhammad Mobeen Movania received his PhD degree in Advance Computer Graphics and Visualization from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. After his graduation, he joined the Institute for Infocomm Research, A-Star Singapore as a research scientist.

Dr. Movania has published several international conference and journal papers in the area of computer graphics and visualization. He has written two books on OpenGL namely, OpenGL Development Cookbook and OpenGL Build High Performance Graphics. He has also contributed book chapters in OpenGL Insights, WebGL Insights, and Game Engine Gems 3. He is associated with DHA Suffa University since 2013 and is currently serving as the Head of Computer Science Department. His GitHub ID is mmmovania.

I would like to thank Allah for his countless blessings on me. My thanks are then due on my family: my parents (Mr. and Mrs. Abdul Aziz Movania), my wife (Tanveer Taji), my brothers and sisters (Mr. Muhammad Khalid Movania, Mrs. Azra Saleem, Mrs. Sajida Shakir, and Mr. Abdul Majid Movania), all my nephews/nieces, and my children (Muntaha and Muhammad Faizan Movania).

Johannes Unterguggenberger is a University Assistant at TU Wien's Rendering and Modeling Group, Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology. He is training students to become skilled graphics developers, which includes gaining expertise in OpenGL and GLSL. He always orients towards the future, be it by refusing to use any C++ version older than 17, developing Augmented Reality rendering techniques and frameworks, or exploring the limits of new graphics hardware.

After working in various fields across the IT industry, he is now fully devoted to education and research, having set his sights on achieving greater visual gloriousness in future games and other real-time applications. Furthermore, he really likes good CG-books and congratulates you for picking one of them up.

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