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ARB shaders

Posted Wednesday, 3 December, 2008 - 23:53 by himek in

Have anyone ever used ARB shaders with OpenTK? There are some missing constant equivalents, unless I overlooked them somewhere. I'm filling the gap with Tao for now.

GL_VERTEX_PROGRAM_ARB,
GL_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_ARB,
GL_PROGRAM_ERROR_POSITION_ARB,
GL_PROGRAM_ERROR_STRING_ARB

Oh, and could you make a string overload like the one GLSL has for this?

byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(vertShaderSrc);
IntPtr sourcePtr = Marshal.UnsafeAddrOfPinnedArrayElement(bytes, 0);
GL.Arb.ProgramString(AssemblyProgramTargetArb.VertexProgram, AssemblyProgramFormatArb.ProgramFormatAsciiArb, vertShaderSrc.Length, sourcePtr);
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the Fiddler's picture

Re: ARB shaders

Posted Thursday, 4 December, 2008 - 00:29 by the Fiddler

Missing tokens can generally be located in the "All" enum. For instance, GL_VERTEX_PROGRAM_ARB is All.VertexProgram, while GL_PROGRAM_ERROR_POSITION_ARB is All.ProgramErrorPositionArb.

Which methods are these used in? We have generally focused on cleaning up the GL core, instead of the extension functions.

himek's picture

Re: ARB shaders

Posted Thursday, 4 December, 2008 - 00:56 by himek

Tao.OpenGl.Gl.glEnable(Tao.OpenGl.Gl.GL_VERTEX_PROGRAM_ARB);
Tao.OpenGl.Gl.glDisable(Tao.OpenGl.Gl.GL_VERTEX_PROGRAM_ARB);
Tao.OpenGl.Gl.glEnable(Tao.OpenGl.Gl.GL_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_ARB);
Tao.OpenGl.Gl.glDisable(Tao.OpenGl.Gl.GL_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_ARB);

Tao.OpenGl.Gl.glGetIntegerv(Tao.OpenGl.Gl.GL_PROGRAM_ERROR_POSITION_ARB, out err);

if (err >= 0)
MessageBox.Show(Tao.OpenGl.Gl.glGetString(Tao.OpenGl.Gl.GL_PROGRAM_ERROR_STRING_ARB)+" at line "+err+".", "Error in vertex shader", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation);

the Fiddler's picture

Re: ARB shaders

Posted Thursday, 4 December, 2008 - 01:03 by the Fiddler

There was a decision made early on that we shouldn't modify core functions (like GL.Enable) to support extension tokens (like GL_VERTEX_PROGRAM_ARB). This would require rewriting a large part of the .spec files, which just isn't feasible right now.

In OpenTK, you can write these functions as follows:

GL.Enable((EnableCap)All.VertexProgram);
GL.Enable((EnableCap)All.FragmentProgram);
GL.GetInteger((GetPName)All.ProgramErrorPositionArb, out err);
GL.GetString((StringName)All.ProgamErrorStringArb);
himek's picture

Re: ARB shaders

Posted Thursday, 4 December, 2008 - 15:01 by himek

OK, thanks.

Inertia's picture

Re: ARB shaders

Posted Thursday, 4 December, 2008 - 19:20 by Inertia

Sorry if this is going off-topic, but do you have any tutorial/bookmarks you can recommend for learning about ARB assembly?