opengl shader directional lights specular reflection increasing with distance - c++

Question

the title says it all.. using opengls built in lighting system, specularlight does not increase or decrease with distance from the object, but by shader implementation does.
Vertex Shader:
#version 330
layout (location = 0) in vec3 position;
layout (location = 1) in vec2 texCoord;
layout (location = 2) in vec3 normal;
out vec2 texCoord0;
out vec3 normal0;
out vec3 worldPos0;
uniform mat4 transform;
uniform mat4 normalRotation;
uniform mat4 transformProjected;
void main()
{
gl_Position = transformProjected * vec4(position, 1.0);
texCoord0 = texCoord;
normal0 = normalize((normalRotation * vec4(normal, 0.0))).xyz;
worldPos0 = (transform * vec4(position, 1.0)).xyz;
}
Fragment Shader:
#version 330
in vec2 texCoord0;
in vec3 normal0;
in vec3 worldPos0;
out vec4 fragColor;
struct BaseLight
{
vec3 colorDiffuse;
vec3 colorSpecular;
float intensityDiffuse;
};
struct DirectionalLight
{
BaseLight base;
vec3 direction;
};
uniform vec3 tint;
uniform sampler2D sampler;
uniform vec3 eyePos; // camera pos
uniform vec3 ambientLight;
uniform vec3 emissiveLight;
//material
uniform float specularIntensity;
uniform float specularPower;
uniform DirectionalLight directionalLight;
vec4 calcLight(BaseLight base,vec3 direction, vec3 normal)
{
float diffuseFactor = dot(normal, -direction);
vec4 diffuseColorFinal = vec4(0,0,0,0);
vec4 specularColorFinal = vec4(0,0,0,0);
if(diffuseFactor > 0)
{
diffuseColorFinal = vec4(base.colorDiffuse,1) * diffuseFactor * base.intensityDiffuse;
vec3 directionToEye = normalize(eyePos - worldPos0);
vec3 reflectDirection = normalize(reflect(direction, normal));
float specularFactor = dot(directionToEye, reflectDirection);
specularFactor = pow(specularFactor, specularPower);
if(specularFactor > 0)
specularColorFinal = vec4(base.colorSpecular,1) * specularFactor * specularIntensity;
}
//
return diffuseColorFinal + specularColorFinal;
}
void main()
{
vec4 colorD = texture(sampler, texCoord0.xy) * vec4(tint,1);
vec3 normal = normal0;
vec4 totalLight = vec4(ambientLight,1) + vec4(emissiveLight,1);
totalLight += calcLight(directionalLight.base,-directionalLight.direction,normal);
fragColor = colorD * totalLight;
}
As you can see from the 2 images the specular light takes up a larger surface area the farther the camera gets from the plane.In my test with opengls built in lighting, this doesnt happen. is there a way to fix this? im new to lighting, maybe this is normal for directional light sources? thanks for the help!
Im also setting my eyePos uniform to my cameraPos. i dont know if that helps.

Answer 1

Basically you need to have distance between the fragment and the light dist . This can be a problem for directional light though because you have only the direction and distant is assumed to be infinite. Maybe switch to point light?
when youo have the 'dist' you use a formula
att = 1.0 / (Kc + Kl*dist + Kq*dist^2)
Kc - constant attenuation
Kl - linear attenuation
Kq - quadratic attenuation
simpler version (only Kq used, rest set to 1.0):
float attenuation = 1.0 / (1.0 + light.attenuation * pow(distanceToLight, 2));
then in the lighting equation you basically multiply calculated color by this att factor:
vec4 finalColor = ambient + (diffuseColorFinal + specularColorFinal)*att
http://www.ozone3d.net/tutorials/glsl_lighting_phong_p4.php#part_4
http://tomdalling.com/blog/modern-opengl/07-more-lighting-ambient-specular-attenuation-gamma/