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[KaiserJohan]

Hello,
Quick question. I've made a shader program wrapper that does what you'd expect, but I'm not sure how to tackle all the different opengl functions for 'glSetUniform*'. For example to add to the api every single call feels messy and cluttered, is there a better way I am missing?

For all the different uniform functions: http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man3/ -> glUniform

Thanks

[Erik Rufelt]

Look into uniform buffers.

[KaiserJohan]

I've read about it, but I'm not sure how that would help me?

[Erik Rufelt]

With buffers you only need one call, as many uniforms can be stored in the same buffer, with different types.

Something like this for example, in your source:

struct Uniforms {
	float transformMatrix[16];
	float color[4];
};

Uniforms uniforms;
uniforms.transformMatrix ...
uniforms.color ...

glBufferData(GL_UNIFORM_BUFFER, ..., &uniforms, ..);

And in GLSL:

layout(std140) uniform Uniforms {
	mat4 transformMatrix;
	vec4 color;
};

in vec3 inPosition;
out vec4 outColor;

void main() {
	gl_position = transformMatrix * vec4(inPosition, 1.0);
	outColor = color;
}

Edited by Erik Rufelt, 10 November 2012 - 08:16 AM.