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CookedBird

Member Since 18 Dec 2012
Offline Last Active Jan 24 2013 04:03 PM
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In Topic: Help: Telling one mesh from another in the vertex shader

18 December 2012 - 02:10 PM

Okay, I think I realized what my problem was. I didn't realize that you could change uniforms between draw calls, I thought everything was drawn once glFlush was called or something like that, so I thought it would be pointless to change the uniform. But if I understand right I can do something like this...

glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo_1);
glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, ibo_1);
glUniform1fv(uniform_ skeleton, 10, skeleton_1);
glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, 3, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, BUFFER_OFFSET(0));

glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo_2);
glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, ibo_2);
glUniform1fv(uniform_ skeleton, 10, skeleton_2);
glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, 3, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, BUFFER_OFFSET(0));

glutSwapBuffers();

...If that is true then everything just made a whole lot more sense.

In Topic: Help: Telling one mesh from another in the vertex shader

18 December 2012 - 12:53 PM

I understand that, but what I'm confused about is how you tell each skeleton apart, what I have is

uniform mat4 skeleton[][];
uniform vec4 worldpos[];
in int joint;
void main(void)
{
mat4 mjoint = skeleton[meshID][joint];
vec4 new_vertex = gl_vertex + worldpos[meshID];
....
}

but I don't know where to get the meshID from to tell the skeletons and worldpos apart, should it just be a vector attribute, or am I doing this wrong?

In Topic: Help: Telling one mesh from another in the vertex shader

18 December 2012 - 11:30 AM

Well I was also hoping to add more then just the position vector and also give it information about the mesh's skeleton. Where if I have 200 vertices per mesh and only 10 bones per mesh it would be a waist of memory to repeat the bones for each vertex. I'm trying to minimize the about of information I have to update and store on the graphics card.

I did got the idea from instance rendering.

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