Scale vertex Coordinates, but keep alpha channel value the same? GLSL - opengl

There are two textures that I have to display and they overlap. one of the textures have alpha channel, so it is possible to blend it. However, since the texture coordinates are clumped together, I decided to scale them. gl_TexCoord[0] = gl_MultiTexCoord0*2.0;
This does not quite work, because, it sclaes the alpha channel as well. How do I scale the texture coordinates, but keep the alpha channel value the same?
Below are the GLSL shaders.
vertex shader:
void main()
{
gl_TexCoord[0] = gl_MultiTexCoord0*2.0; //this is where I scale the texture
gl_Position = gl_ModelViewProjectionMatrix * gl_Vertex;
}
fragment shader:
uniform sampler2D textureSample_0;
uniform sampler2D textureSample_1;
void main()
{
vec4 grass=texture2D(textureSample_1, gl_TexCoord[0].st);
vec4 sand = texture2D(textureSample_0, gl_TexCoord[0].st);
gl_FragColor = grass*grass.a+sand*(1.0-grass.a); //alpha channel is also scaled here
}
Any help would be appreciated.

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I've encoded some data into a 44487x1.0 luminance texture:
Now I would like to "scrub" this data across my shader, so that a slice of the texture equal in width to the pixel width of my canvas is displayed. So if the canvas is 500px wide, then 500 pixels from the texture will be shown. The texture is then translated by some offset value so that different values within the texture can be displayed.
//vertex shader
export const vs = GLSL`
#version 300 es
in vec4 position;
void main() {
gl_Position = position;
}
`;
//fragment shader
#version 300 es
#ifdef GL_ES
precision highp float;
#endif
uniform vec2 u_resolution;
uniform float u_time;
uniform sampler2D u_texture_7; //data texture
out vec4 fragColor;
void main(){
//data texture dimensions
vec2 dims = vec2(44487., 1.0);
//amount by which to translate the data texture
vec2 offset = vec2(u_time*.5, 0.);
//canvas coords
vec2 uv = gl_FragCoord.xy/u_resolution.xy;
//textuer asspect ratio, w/h
float textureAspect = 44487. / 1.;
vec3 col = vec3(0.);
//texture width is 44487*larger than uv, I guess?
vec2 textCoords = vec2((uv.x/textureAspect)+offset.x, uv.y);
//get texture values
vec3 text = texture(u_texture_7, textCoords).rgb;
//output
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}
However, this doesn't seem to work. All I get is a black screen. Is using a wide texture like this a good way to go about getting the array values into the shader? The texture is very small in size, but I'm wondering if the dimensions might still be causing an issue.
Alternatively to providing one large texture, I could provide a smaller texture, but update the texture uniform values via js?
After trying several different approaches, the work around I ended up using was uploading the 44487x1.0 image to a separate 2d canvas, and then performing the transformations of the texture in the 2d canvas, and not the shader. The canvas is then sent to the shader as a texture.
Might not be the most efficient solution, but it avoids having to mess around with the texture too much in the shader.

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I am trying to learn how to use shaders and use GLSL. One of the shaders is working but is distorting the texture of the sprite it's working on. I'm doing this all on SFML.
Distorted texture on left, actual texture on right:
The problem comes from this line
When I started the texture was being rendered upside down but subtracting the y component of the cordinates from 1 fixed that issue. The line that is causing the issue is
vec2 texCoord = (gl_FragCoord.xy / sourceSize.xy);
Where the sourceSize is a uniform passing in the resolution of something as a vec2. I've been passing in various values into this and getting different distorted versions of the texture. I was wondering if there was a way a ratio to pass in or something to avoid this distortion.
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Passed in values for the above image: 512x512
Shader
uniform sampler2D source;
uniform vec2 sourceSize;
uniform float time;
void main( void )
{
vec2 texCoord = (gl_FragCoord.xy / sourceSize.xy); //Gets the pixel position in a range of 0.0 to 1
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Found a solution. Posting it here for if other need the help.
Changing
vec4 Color = texture2D(source, texCoord);//Gets the current pixture colour
To
vec4 Color = texture2D(source, gl_TexCoord[0].xy);//Gets the current pixture colour
Will fix the distortion effect.

LibGDX Overlapping 2D Shadows

I'm working on shadows for a 2D overhead game. Right now, the shadows are just sprites with the color (0,0,0,0.1) drawn on a layer above the tiles.
The problem: When many entities or trees get clumped together, the shadows overlap, forming unnatural-looking dark areas.
I've tried drawing the shadows to a framebuffer and using a simple shader to prevent overlapping, but that lead to other problems, including layering issues.
Is it possible to enable a certain blend function for the shadows that prevents "stacking", or a better way to use a shader?
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Vertex shader:
attribute vec4 a_position;
attribute vec4 a_color;
attribute vec2 a_texCoord0;
varying vec2 v_texCoords;
varying vec2 v_texCoordsShadowmap;
varying vec4 v_color;
uniform mat4 u_projTrans;
void main()
{
v_texCoords = a_texCoord0;
v_color = a_color;
v_color.a = v_color.a * (255.0/254.0); //this is a correction due to color float precision (see SpriteBatch's default shader)
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}
Fragment shader:
#ifdef GL_ES
precision mediump float;
#endif
varying vec2 v_texCoords;
varying vec2 v_texCoordsShadowmap;
varying vec4 v_color;
uniform sampler2D u_texture;
uniform sampler2D u_textureShadowmap;
void main()
{
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float shadowColor = texture2D(u_textureShadowmap, v_texCoordsShadowmap).r;
shadowColor = mix(shadowColor, 1.0, v_color.a);
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gl_FragColor = textureColor;
}
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Draw background e.g. grass
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Draw all other sprites

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Recently, I have read article about sun shader (XNA Sun Shader) and decided to implement it using OpenGL ES 2.0. But I faced with a problem connected with shader:
I have two textures, one of them is fire gradient texture:
And another one is texture each white part of which must be colored by the first texture:
So, I'm going to have a result like below (do not pay attention that the result texture is rendered on sphere mesh):
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uniform sampler2D Texture1; // gradient texture
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void main(void)
{
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Im making a 2D side scroller game and I am currently implementing lights. The lights are just a light gradient texture rendered on top of the terrain multiplied to make it brighten up the area. However, I dont know how to nor understand how to do Ambient lighting. The following picture sums up what I have and the bottom part is what I want.
I am open to answers regarding shaders for I know how to use them.
I ended up creating an FBO texture the size of the screen, clearing it with the color of the ambience and drawing in all nearby lights. Then, I passed it through a shader I made which takes in 2 textures for uniforms. The texture to draw and the light FBO itself. The shader multiplies the textures being drawn with the FBO and it came out nicely.
ambience.frag
uniform sampler2D texture1;
uniform sampler2D texture2;
varying vec2 texCoord;
void main( void ) {
vec4 color1 = vec4(texture2D(texture1, gl_TexCoord[0].st));
vec4 color2 = vec4(texture2D(texture2, texCoord));
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ambience.vs
varying vec2 texCoord;
uniform vec2 screen;
uniform vec2 camera;
void main(){
gl_Position = ftransform();
gl_TexCoord[0] = gl_MultiTexCoord0;
vec2 temp = vec2(gl_Vertex.x,gl_Vertex.y)-camera;
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}