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OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook - Third Edition

By : David Wolff
Book Image

OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook - Third Edition

By: David Wolff

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introduction


In Chapter 3, The Basics of GLSL Shaders, we covered a number of techniques for implementing some of the shading effects that were produced by the former fixed-function pipeline. We also looked at some basic features of GLSL such as functions and subroutines. In this chapter, we'll move beyond those introductory features, and see how to produce shading effects such as spotlights, fog, and cartoon style shading. We'll cover how to use multiple light sources and how to improve the realism of the results with a technique called per-fragment shading.

We'll also cover the very popular and important Blinn-Phong reflection model and directional light sources.

Finally, we'll cover how to fine-tune the depth test by configuring the early depth test optimization.