Uniform variable arrays

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6 comments, last by V-man 12 years, 3 months ago
I am writing a simple GLSL program in which I am passing an array of ints as a three vector (uniform) into my vertex shader. However I am not able to extract the same values that I am sending into the shader for some reason. If instead of an array, I send the values as uniform scalars into the shaders, it is working fine.

This is how I am binding and sending values from my main code:
int testUniform[3] = {8, 0, 1}; //Declared globally

locUniform = glGetUniformLocation (ShaderProgram, (char *)"center");
glUniform3iv (locUniform, 1, testUniform);

And this is how I am receiving and extracting the values inside my shader:
#version 120

uniform vec3 center;

void Main () {
if (center.x == 8 && center.y == 0 && center.z == 1) {
/*MY CODE*/
}
}
.
The code isn't giving any compiler errors but also not going inside the if statement (hence giving no output).
Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance.
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Well, if you want to access it like center.x, center.y, you should sent it using



glUniform3i(locUniform, testUniform[0], testUniform[1], testUniform[2]);
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Shouldn't it be ivec3?

Also having vec3.xyz has nothing to do with the way you pass the data.
The ivec3 did the job! Thanks for that.
However, the problem persists if I pass an array of 1 vectors :

loc1 = glGetUniformLocation (ShaderProgram, (char *)"data");
glUniform1fv (loc1, 25, Data); //Data being an array of 25 floats

And access it in the shader as :
uniform vec1 data[25]; - (i)
OR as,
uniform float data[25]; - (ii)

when I declare it as (i) the compiler gives the following error :

ERROR: 0:9: error(#12) Internal error unexpected qualifier
ERROR: 0:9: error(#132) Syntax error: 'data' parse error

when I declare it (ii), again, no output, but no compiler errors too.
I am at my wits end, could you tell me what's wrong, please?
Thanks in advance.
vec1 is not a valid type, so indeed use float.

Not sure why the second variation doesn't work, did you try checking for errors with glGetError()?
Instead of float
uniform float data[25];

maybe you want
uniform int data[25];
Sig: http://glhlib.sourceforge.net
an open source GLU replacement library. Much more modern than GLU.
float matrix[16], inverse_matrix[16];
glhLoadIdentityf2(matrix);
glhTranslatef2(matrix, 0.0, 0.0, 5.0);
glhRotateAboutXf2(matrix, angleInRadians);
glhScalef2(matrix, 1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glhQuickInvertMatrixf2(matrix, inverse_matrix);
glUniformMatrix4fv(uniformLocation1, 1, FALSE, matrix);
glUniformMatrix4fv(uniformLocation2, 1, FALSE, inverse_matrix);
Yes I tried glGetError() but it didn't return any error inside the main program.

@V-man : Even that doesn't work; gives a similar output
It might be a driver bug or the GPU doesn't support integers and it is actually converting the integers to float and thus you end up with a precision problem with floats.
Sig: http://glhlib.sourceforge.net
an open source GLU replacement library. Much more modern than GLU.
float matrix[16], inverse_matrix[16];
glhLoadIdentityf2(matrix);
glhTranslatef2(matrix, 0.0, 0.0, 5.0);
glhRotateAboutXf2(matrix, angleInRadians);
glhScalef2(matrix, 1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glhQuickInvertMatrixf2(matrix, inverse_matrix);
glUniformMatrix4fv(uniformLocation1, 1, FALSE, matrix);
glUniformMatrix4fv(uniformLocation2, 1, FALSE, inverse_matrix);

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