Lighting + Shadow Mapping GLSL

OpenGL Development
#1

Hi, I want to use diffuse and ambient light. My problem is, that if I move with the camera (translate the ModelViewMatrix) the brightness of the faces changes although the light should be fixed.

Here is my vertex shader:

attribute vec3 position;
attribute vec3 normal;

void main() {
	gl_Position = gl_ModelViewProjectionMatrix * vec4(position, 1);
	gl_Normal = normalize(gl_NormalMatrix * normal);
							
	vec3 light = normalize(vec3(gl_LightSource[0].position));

	float NdotL = max(dot(gl_Normal, light), 0.0);
							
	vec4 ambient = gl_FrontMaterial.ambient * gl_LightSource[0].ambient;
	vec4 globalAmbient = gl_LightModel.ambient * gl_FrontMaterial.ambient;
							
	gl_FrontColor = NdotL * gl_LightSource[0].diffuse + globalAmbient + ambient;
}

I set the light position each frame after translate the MoselViewMatrix:

GL11.glLight(GL11.GL_LIGHT0, GL11.GL_POSITION, mPosition);

What should I do?

PS: Is there an IDE/addon for Eclipse for GLSL?

#2

The light position is transformed by the current state of the model view matrix and those transformed values are what you see in the GLSL shader.

The effects that you might see depend on what matrix you’ve set before you call glLight(). If you have the identify matrix, and then call glLight(), and then perform your rendering, the light position you specified is already in “eye” space and it will move along with the camera.

If you set the matrix to the view’s inverse transform, and then call glLight(), the light’s position you specified is in “world” space and should be fixed.

If you set the matrix to the view inverse multiplied with the model matrix of an object, and then call glLight(), the light’s position will be in “model” space and will move along with the object.

It sounds like you’re having the first problem where you set the light position too soon, which is odd since you claim to be setting it after you translate the model view matrix. I’d double check the flow of your operations to make sure you are doing it in the right order. It might help me to see the rest of your Java code that sets everything up too.

As an aside, what type of diffuse light are you trying to simulate? An infinite direction light or a point light?

#3

I have solved the problem. Previously I first rotated and translated the modelviewmatrix and then set the light. Now I rotate the modelviewmatrix first, then set the light and move the modelviewmatrix at the end.

But now I would like to use shadow mapping, but I can’t find a tutorial, that I understand.
I understand the theory (Render the scene from the view of the light, read the z-Buffer and test in the fragment shader, if z is bigger than the z from the rendering from light position), but not how to do this.

#4

I have found this tutorial. It is written in Delphi, so I have to change the code a little.
But apparently I did something wrong. GL30.glCheckFramebufferStatus(GL30.GL_FRAMEBUFFER) returns 36054 (GL30.GL_FRAMEBUFFER_INCOMPLETE_ATTACHMENT) and if I bind the FBO I get the error “Invalid framebuffer operation”.

original code:

GLuint shadow_map = 0; 
GLuint shadow_fbo = 0;
GLuint shadow_size = 4096;
 
glGenTextures(1, &shadow_map);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, shadow_map);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT16, shadow_size, shadow_size, 0, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, NULL);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
 
glGenFramebuffersEXT(1, &shadow_fbo);
glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, shadow_fbo);
glFramebufferTexture2DEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, GL_DEPTH_ATTACHMENT_EXT, GL_TEXTURE_2D, shadow_map, 0);
glDrawBuffer(GL_FALSE);
glReadBuffer(GL_FALSE);
GLenum status = glCheckFramebufferStatusEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT);

my code:

int shadow_map = 0; 
int shadow_fbo = 0;
int shadow_size = 4096;

shadow_map = GL11.glGenTextures();
GL11.glBindTexture(GL11.GL_TEXTURE_2D, shadow_map);
GL11.glTexImage2D(GL11.GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL14.GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT16, shadow_size, shadow_size, 0, GL11.GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT, GL11.GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, (ByteBuffer) null);
GL11.glTexParameteri(GL11.GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL11.GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL11.GL_NEAREST);
		
shadow_fbo = GL30.glGenFramebuffers();
GL30.glBindFramebuffer(GL30.GL_FRAMEBUFFER, shadow_fbo);
GL30.glFramebufferTexture2D(GL30.GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL30.GL_DEPTH_ATTACHMENT, GL11.GL_TEXTURE_2D, shadow_map, 0);
GL11.glDrawBuffer(GL11.GL_FALSE);
GL11.glReadBuffer(GL11.GL_FALSE);
int status = GL30.glCheckFramebufferStatus(GL30.GL_FRAMEBUFFER);

I thought that the problem is in line 7. So I tried to pass an empty ByteBuffer, but that did not work.