How to get camera movement when using openGL framebuffers - c++

Question

I have been writing a program to visualize a fractal point cloud and so far everything has been working, camera movement is using arc-ball movement centered on the origin and points are being rendered. However, I am needing to output the scene into an integrated window inside a UI so i have been trying to get frame buffers to work.
So far i have got a texture to be successfully rendered onto a quad that i am then outputting to the screen which for testing purposes is basically the same as when i was not using a fbo. My issue comes when trying to get camera movement to also display using the rendered texture. i know this is definitely possible as there are lots of examples of this but i haven't been able to get any to work with my code. I'm fairly certain my issue is with my shaders but i have scoured lots of websites, YouTube tutorials, openGL examples and found nothing that works. to the best of my knowledge i have to render the scene as normal so i have been using the same shaders that have worked for me previously for the initial rendering step but i have using my fbo instead of the default fbo
for simplicity's sake, i have just been rendering a point cube as it is faster than generating a fractal each time.
here is the main setup of the fbo, texture and rbo:
GLuint fbo;
GLuint texturebuffer;
GLuint rbo;
void initFBO(){
glGenFramebuffers(1, &fbo);
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, fbo);
glGenTextures(1, &texturebuffer);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texturebuffer);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, WINDOW_WIDTH, WINDOW_HEIGHT, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, NULL);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_TEXTURE_2D, texturebuffer, 0);
glGenRenderbuffers(1, &rbo);
glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, rbo);
glRenderbufferStorage(GL_RENDERBUFFER, GL_DEPTH24_STENCIL8, WINDOW_WIDTH, WINDOW_HEIGHT);
glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, 0); // once rbo memory allocated unbind
glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT, GL_RENDERBUFFER, rbo);
}
here is the main and the draw loop:
int main(){
if(!setup())
return -1;
// // white background
glClearColor(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
GLuint VertexArrayID;
glGenVertexArrays(1, &VertexArrayID);
glBindVertexArray(VertexArrayID);
// GLuint programID = LoadShaders( "new_vertex_shader", "new_fragment_shader" ); // custom shader
GLuint programID = LoadShaders("new_vertex_shader", "new_fragment_shader");
GLuint modelMatrixID = glGetUniformLocation(programID, "model");
GLuint viewMatrixID = glGetUniformLocation(programID, "view");
GLuint matrixID = glGetUniformLocation(programID, "MVP");
GLuint quad_programID = LoadShaders( "screen_vertex_shader", "screen_fragment_shader" );
GLuint textureID = glGetUniformLocation(quad_programID, "screenTexture");
// initialise mvp matrices
glm::mat4 ProjectionMatrix = perspective(radians(45.0f), 4.0f / 3.0f, 0.1f, 100.0f);
glm::mat4 ViewMatrix = translate(mat4(1.0f), vec3(0,0,-RADIUS));
glm::mat4 ModelMatrix = mat4(1.0f);
glm::mat4 MVP;
GLuint vertexbuffer;
glGenBuffers(1, &vertexbuffer);
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vertexbuffer);
GLfloat cube[24] = {
0.5,0.5,0.5,
0.5,-0.5,0.5,
-0.5,0.5,0.5,
-0.5,-0.5,0.5,
0.5,0.5,-0.5,
0.5,-0.5,-0.5,
-0.5,-0.5,-0.5,
-0.5,0.5,-0.5
};
glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(cube),cube, GL_STATIC_DRAW);
glfwSetMouseButtonCallback(window, mouseCallback);
// ################# main draw loop #######################
while( glfwGetKey(window, GLFW_KEY_ESCAPE ) != GLFW_PRESS && glfwWindowShouldClose(window) == 0 ){
// render to fbo first
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, fbo);
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glClearColor(0.1f, 0.1f, 0.1f, 1.0f);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
computeMatricesFromInputs();
ProjectionMatrix = getProjectionMatrix();
ViewMatrix = getViewMatrix();
ModelMatrix = getModelMatrix();
MVP = ProjectionMatrix * ViewMatrix * ModelMatrix;
// Use our shader
glUseProgram(programID);
// Send our transformation to the currently bound shader in the "MVP" uniform
glUniformMatrix4fv(matrixID, 1, GL_FALSE, &MVP[0][0]);
glUniformMatrix4fv(modelMatrixID, 1, GL_FALSE, &ModelMatrix[0][0]);
glUniformMatrix4fv(viewMatrixID, 1, GL_FALSE, &ViewMatrix[0][0]);
// render scene as normal
glEnableVertexAttribArray(0);
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vertexbuffer); // index buffer
glVertexAttribPointer(
0, // attribute 0. No particular reason for 0, but must match the layout in the shader.
3, // size
GL_FLOAT, // type
GL_FALSE, // normalized?
0, // stride
(void*)0 // array buffer offset
);
glPointSize(POINT_SIZE);
glDrawArrays(GL_POINTS, 0, sizeof(cube));
glDisableVertexAttribArray(0);
// bind back to default frame buffer to show on screen
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);
glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glClearColor(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glUseProgram(quad_programID);
glEnableVertexAttribArray(0);
glBindVertexArray(quad_vertex_buffer);
glVertexAttribPointer(
0, // attribute 0. No particular reason for 0, but must match the layout in the shader.
3, // size
GL_FLOAT, // type
GL_FALSE, // normalized?
0, // stride
(void*)0 // array buffer offset
);
glDrawArrays(GL_POINTS, 0, sizeof(cube));
glDisableVertexAttribArray(0);
// Swap buffers
glfwSwapBuffers(window);
glfwPollEvents();
}
vertex shader:
#version 330 core
// Input vertex data, different for all executions of this shader.
layout(location = 0) in vec3 vertexPosition_modelspace;
// Values that stay constant for the whole mesh.
uniform mat4 MVP;
uniform mat4 view;
uniform mat4 model;
void main(){
// Output position of the vertex, in clip space : MVP * position
gl_Position = MVP * vec4(vertexPosition_modelspace,1.0);
}
fragment shader:
#version 330 core
// Output data
out vec3 color;
void main(){
// Output color = black
color = vec3(0,0,0);
}
screen quad vertex shader:
#version 330 core
layout (location = 0) in vec2 aPos;
layout (location = 1) in vec2 aTexCoords;
out vec2 TexCoords;
void main()
{
TexCoords = aTexCoords;
gl_Position = vec4(aPos.x, aPos.y, 0.0, 1.0);
}
screen quad fragment shader:
#version 330 core
out vec4 FragColour;
in vec2 TexCoords;
uniform sampler2D screenTexture;
void main()
{
FragColour = texture(screenTexture, TexCoords);
}
sorry if this is quite a big block of code, im not entirely sure where the error would lie and im somewhat new to using openGL. many thanks in advance for anyhelp.

Answer 1

glEnableVertexAttribArray changes a state in the Vertex Array Object. It has to be done after binding the VAO by glBindVertexArray.
I assume that quad_vertex_buffer is a Vertex Array Object, even though the name "vertex_buffer" is misleading.
glBindVertexArray(quad_vertex_buffer);
glEnableVertexAttribArray(0);
When you draw the screen space quad (2nd pass), then you have to use a primitive type which generates a (filled) polygon (probably GL_TRIANGLES or GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP), rather than the point primitive type GL_POINTS:
glDrawArrays(GL_POINTS, 0, sizeof(cube));
glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, sizeof(cube))