i have been trying to implement deferred rendering for past 2 weeks. I have finally come to the spot lighting pass part using stencil buffer and linearized depth. I hold 3 framebuffer textures : albedo, normal+depth (X,Y,Z,EyeViewLinearDepth), Lighting texture. So I draw my light (sphere) and apply this fragment shader :
void main(void)
{
vec2 texCoord = gl_FragCoord.xy * u_inverseScreenSize.xy;
float linearDepth = texture2D(u_normalDepth, texCoord.st).a;
// vector to far plane
vec3 viewRay = vec3(v_vertex.xy * (-farClip/v_vertex.z), -farClip);
// scale viewRay by linear depth to get view space position
vec3 vertex = viewRay * linearDepth;
vec3 normal = texture2D(u_normalDepth, texCoord.st).xyz*2.0 - 1.0;
vec4 ambient = vec4(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
vec4 diffuse = vec4(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
vec4 specular = vec4(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
vec3 lightDir = lightpos - vertex ;
vec3 R = normalize(reflect(lightDir, normal));
vec3 V = normalize(vertex);
float lambert = max(dot(normal, normalize(lightDir)), 0.0);
if (lambert > 0.0) {
float distance = length(lightDir);
if (distance <= u_lightRadius) {
//CLASSICAL LIGHTING COMPUTATION PART
}
}
vec4 final_color = vec4(ambient + diffuse + specular);
gl_FragColor = vec4(final_color.xyz, 1.0);
}
The variables you need to know : v_vertex is eye space position of the vertex (of sphere), lightpos is the position/center of the light in eye space, linearDepth is generated on geometry pass stage in eye space.
The problem is that, the code fail this if check :
if (distance <= u_lightRadius). The light is never computed until i remove the distance check. I can see some lights if i remove the check but i am sure it is computed incorrectly because of the incorrect distance. I am sure that i pass these values correctly, radius is 170.0, light position is only like 40-50 units away from the model. There is definitely something wrong but i can't find it somehow. I tried many possibilities of radius and other variables.
