Hello, I'm currently writing a fragment shader to render specular highlights. Because my scene contains more than one light source, I wanted to use my single fragment shader to render each light source in a single pass one after the other. To tell the shader which light source to process, I use a uniform variable as in loc = glGetUniformLocation(p,"lightSourceIndex"); glUniform1i(loc,1); The problem is now that the shader does not compile with the message "profile requires index expression to be compile-time constant". The respective shader code is -------------

uniform int lightSourceIndex;
....
att = 1.0 / (gl_LightSource[lightSourceIndex].constantAttenuation +
  gl_LightSourcelight[lightSourceIndex].linearAttenuation * dist +
  gl_LightSourcelight[lightSourceIndex].quadraticAttenuation * dist * dist);

------------- Is there another way to make it possible to tell the shader which light source to process while circumventing to use not-compile-time constant indices? Thanks in advance, greets Tobias

Is really no one here that encountered that problem? If so, there must be a better way accomplish the task of rendering several light sources... May someone could enLIGHTen me :-)

Greetings, Tobias

Hey zedzeek,
thanks for your answer.

Your advice works with my problem, however it doesn't scale well with multiple parameters. In my vertex shader, I need 9 floats describing the current light source (position, direction, diffuse, ambient and specular). Should I create 9 uniform float variables for these values or what's better practice?

Greetings, Tobias