Questions tagged [opengl-es]
Subset of the OpenGL 3D graphics API designed for embedded devices such as mobile phones.
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Is there an equivalent to GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_R on GL ES 2.0?
I've been trying to write code that can run on multiple GL versions, since I mostly only use very basic features, and one of the versions I am targeting is GL ES 2.
Since I know you're supposed to ...
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Procedural fractal Perlin flow noise for mobile
I'm trying to use the Fractal Perlin flow noise from Chaos Software (shared under the MIT licence)
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Opengl ES color blending is not accurate
I am developing a drawing app and I encountered a problem.
As you can see the color blending feature in opengl es is not accurate.
On the left side of the picture is blended through standard equation.
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GLSL wrong data read from attribute
I'm developping an OpenGLes 3.0 app with Java and I started writing the shader code. For some reason, it seems to mix up the attributes data locations and I don't understand why. Here's the code :
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Texture loading issue with open gl es on android with multiple SurfaceViews
I'm programming an app with OpenGL ES on Android in Java. The app uses 9 textures during a render loop pass. A depth, position, normal, albedo, noise, SSAO, SSAO blur and two image textures for the ...
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Convert Wavefront (OBJ) faces into triangles for drawing with OpenGLES
I wrote a simple Wavefront parser in C++ that loads v, vn, vt and ...
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How to apply sampler2Darray textures to different locations of a single mesh?
In openGL, I have a 3D terrain composed of a grid of 255x255 vertices. The vertex of the lower left corner is at coordinates (-127;-127) and the one of the upper right corner is at coordinates (127;...
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Most but not all quads appear corrupted when passing matrix and colour using VBO for instanced rendering
I was trying to batch quads with the same texture and blend mode into the single draw call using glDrawElementsInstanced. As long as I use just a position, texture ...
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The performance gains of tiled rendering on mobile
I'm making an OpenGL es app on android and I'm trying to improve the performance of it.
I found this technique called tiled rendering (not the same thing as tiled deffered rendering*) wich divides the ...
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What's the solution to this kind of shadow acne?
I'm working with a OpenGL ES/GLSL homebrew engine my company developed, in C++. Below is a screenshot of it rendering shadow acne. The light's direction is too perpendicular to the face of the curve ...
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How to update constant buffer patially in OpenGLES
I am wondering what does glMapBufferRange actually do?
I am accessing my constant buffer like this way:
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handling obj file without normal [duplicate]
I am trying to build an obj file loader and I have written code to read an obj file with face f with v/vt/vn - vertex, texture coordinate, and normal.
While going through the obj file, there are so ...
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OpenGL Compute Shader vs Fragment Shader device support
I have a game with massively parallelizable logic, which I intend to write calculate on the GPU (Java/LibGDX).
I am planning to implement a logic for it through a fragment shader, instead of a compute ...
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Any fast alternative to sine in GLSL?
Should I just use the built-in sin() function or my custom sine function?
I'm concerned about performance here. I don't care about accuracy much here because I use it to just get wave effects in my ...
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Cuda API to render using Physically Based Rendering (PBR) in OpenGL-ES based project
I need to develop a OpenGL-ES based application to render a model using Physically based Rendering (PBR).
Do I need to use Cuda API to render the computation intense PBR rendering?
Is there any ...
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OpenGL GLSL ES 3.10 - Referencing a uniform variable, causes the vertex shader to not draw anything
I have this project, that has a default shader, that just draws models and textures. Recently I decided to add a second shader that does a fancy effect, and is used only on some of the objects drawn.
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Bind render result to texture id
I want to save the result screen of the rendering and then apply another shader on that result, the typical way is to read the screen using glReadPixels and then buffer that image to gpu and then ...
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NDK opengl-es unknown error
Projection matrix? Renderer? Where is the error?
I recently started studying NDK to create better performing android games ... but ... An error I didn't expect to deal with appeared a few weeks ago
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OpenGL ES - render to texture - how to preserve original depth buffer
I render to texture and attach my own depth buffer that has texture target. However, after I finish rendering I would like to set original depth buffer back.
To start rendering to texture I do:
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Why do I have additional glBindBuffer() calls?
I have a OpenGL2/OpenGLES2 application and it among others renders a sphere using the following pseudocode:
Update vertices data on CPU
call glBufferSubData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, ...) to update them on GPU ...
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Techniques for cursor snap-to-vertex in WebGL or OpenGL?
What's a technique for snapping the mouse pointer to vertices in WebGL or OpenGL? All I need is the vertex position, no other info.
Ideally, I'd like to do this without needing to keep positions and ...
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How can I fix the artifacts near the shadow edges in my variance shadow map?
I'm trying to implement variance shadow mapping in my engine. I'm using WebGL 2 and now I have only one directional light source. It's working, but it has a serious issue near the shadow edges and I ...
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OpenGL ES model loader is slow?
I'm trying to load a 3D model in OpenGL ES, and I managed to find a project on "sourceForge" that can do this job.
When I downloaded it and played the app, it took 50 second to load a small object (...
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How to preserve EGL context when pausing Android ndk app
I am trying to improve openframeworks so that the GL context is preserved when pausing and resuming my game. So that I don't have to reload all textures after each pause. I don't expect you to know ...
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OpenGL ES, object intersection artifacts
I was developing a C++ implementation of OpenGL for Android and I noticed those weird artifacts that formed between 2 intersecting objects (or triangles) :
[Here are the artifacts on Android]
The ...
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How do i update opengl lightning equation in my fragment shader to make my texture less glossy and more like a fabric
I built a model in blender, and am currently trying to import it into my android app using assimp together with opengl, i dont have any issues with the importing but my goal is to make the object look ...
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PVRCT Texture Format with glTexStorage2D on Open GL 3.0 ES How?
I've looked everywhere and I can't seem to find the answer.
How can I use glTexStorage2D with PVRCT textures? I've done this:
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Rotating a Quad in Shader
I'm working Opengles2 and I have a just a texture ID and a quad from an SDK and its shader, and I can not access their code, just the vertex and pixel shader.
The quad from the SDK is rotated and ...
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Draw text in OpenGL ES 3D game?
I am making a game using OpenGL ES 1.0 and I want to keep player score. So I need to draw text dinamically. What is the best approach? Some library, textures, bitmaps?
I tried to use TextView but ...
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How to make the camera follow the player in Libgdx?
In Play class I have the viewport of game height=320 and game width=240unitswith camera cam. I have set the camera(cam) viewport width to 10 and viewport height to 7.I have another camera hud whose ...
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How to associate multiple arrays of vertex data and uv data with an attribute? OpenGL ES
I create the buffers to to put on them the vertex data and uv data:
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How to transform only part of an array in OpenGL ES?
I have one texture atlas of which I select the "non-animated textures", I put all vertex and UV coordinates in two array:
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OpenGL ES texture rendered not as expected with disproportional aspect ratio triangles
I cannot seem to understand how texture coordinates work.
I try to render a texture into two triangles and this is what I get
Where the expected output is a normal continuous image as you can imagine.
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OpenGL ES 2.0 cannot understand how to use 2D ortho projection and shaders
I am migrating an app that draws on OpenGL ES 1.0 to OpenGL ES 2.0.
The app used to draw multiple 2D triangles, as a vertex array, where the vertices matched the pixels on screen.
I made a sample ...
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Issues to display a texture loaded with libPNG with opengles 3.0
I'm trying to load a texture loaded with libPNG on a XY coordinates. I know the width and the height of the texture (32x32).
The texture is already loaded successfully and I have his Id.
Here is my ...
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Rendering artifacts on edges in Cardboard VR OpenGL ES 2
Unity beginner here. I've encountered this weird rendering artifacts in my Cardboard VR app on Android OpenGL ES 2: https://youtu.be/uJm4d3MwbRo
It doesn't occur in WebGL build: http://senovsky.wz.cz/...
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What are "free vertex indices" in WebGL 2 and how do they relate to geometry shaders?
In January Notch tweeted about WebGL 2:
WebGL 2 is happening. Bye, compatibility! Hello, 3d textures and pixel buffers!
oh god it's got free vertex indices in the shader. That is basically a geometry ...
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Texture does not fit the screen
Hi guys I am really new in OpenGL-ES and I am developing a simple android application with NDK, and I just want to ask why the image is not fit after I set the width and height of it.
this is my <...
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How to update FBO's depth texture?
I have an FBO with only 16-bit depth attachment:
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT16, w, h, 0, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, nullptr);
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Correct normal map for rotated sprites
I am trying to find the best way to correctly do normal mapping in a 2D batched sprite renderer.
For each sprite sheet (aka texture atlas) I render all sprites as a textured quads with a single <...
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OpenGL self-test in a mobile game
I've made an Android game that uses no/custom game engine. It renders using OpenGL ES 2.0 and optionally uses some extensions for optimization or extra effects. Over the time I have dealt with various ...
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GLSL - Stencil buffer - instanced geometry
I have geometry that have attached some "ID" data. I have generated stencil buffer, that holds these IDs.
Now, in second pass, I render different geometry, but this time I need to mask it with ...
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How can I port my Gear VR app (Java, OpenGL ES) to Unity?
I want to port my Gear VR app (created in Java using the official framework) to Unity, so I can also support Microsoft's new-ish VR headsets (not talking about the Hololens!).
In my current app I'm ...
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Android: 2d scrolling background
I am a very beginner in game development. All I want to achieve in the beginning is a free scrollable background like in a strategy game with my custom graphics. In my case it is supposed to be a 2d ...
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Most efficient way of drawing a lot of cubes OpenGL ES
I have to draw a lot of cubes in my OpenGL programme for android. All the cubes have the same size but different colors. I know that calling glDrawArrays is expensive operation so I should call it ...
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How can I simulate a crash of OpenGL in GLKViewController to help track down a user's problem?
I am using GLKViewController for iOS app. On some devices, there are problems (possibly with OpenGL), that I am unable to solve, because I dont see this problem on ...
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OpenGL ES 2.0 Shadow Mapping - depth only FBO not working due to GL_FRAMEBUFFER_INCOMPLETE_ATTACHMEN
I am trying to add simple shadow mapping to my friends gles 2.0 app. It is based on gles 2.0 and PowerVR SDK.
The problem I encounter is that FBO is not valid due to ...
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Android - OpenGL - detect slow GPU
I have app for Android with OpenGL. It uses GPU-heavy effects and on "slow" GPUs this leads to low FPS. Is there a way, how to detect "slow" GPU during app start and disable those effects and generate ...
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Is Opengl 2.x still usable? [closed]
i've used opengl core profile for a while now and i was wondering if it was possible to create a "decent" application (like a game/game engine) with good graphics. I have a machine which can run only ...
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