Which combination for uvec2 fragment shader output - c++

I’ve been trying to output into GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT1 unsigned values R and G. The texture is set with these format / internal format / type :
GL_RG / GL_RG8UI / GL_UNSIGNED_INT
I also tried with GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, it results the same issue: incomplete framebuffer.
I output in fragment shader that way:
layout (location = 0) vec3 nofrag;
layout (location = 1) uvec2 matfrag;
Any idea? I thought GL_UNSIGNED_INT_8_8_8_8 would have been better: well it’s definitely not…

Solved! Thank you, glYoda! Here’s the solution:
GL_RG_INTEGER / GL_RG8UI / GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE
I think GL_UNSIGNED_INT is nice too, but since GL*8*UINT, BYTE is far away better.

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when do i need GL_EXT_nonuniform_qualifier?

I want to compile the following code into SPIR-V
#version 450 core
#define BATCH_ID (PushConstants.Indices.x >> 16)
#define MATERIAL_ID (PushConstants.Indices.x & 0xFFFF)
layout (push_constant) uniform constants {
ivec2 Indices;
} PushConstants;
layout (constant_id = 1) const int MATERIAL_SIZE = 32;
in Vertex_Fragment {
layout(location = 0) vec4 VertexColor;
layout(location = 1) vec2 TexCoord;
} inData;
struct ParameterFrequence_3 {
int ColorMap;
};
layout (set = 3, binding = 0, std140) uniform ParameterFrequence_3 {
ParameterFrequence_3[MATERIAL_SIZE] data;
} Frequence_3;
layout (location = 0) out vec4 out_Color;
layout (set = 2, binding = 0) uniform sampler2D[] Sampler2DResources;
void main(void) {
vec4 color = vec4(1.0);
color *= texture(Sampler2DResources[Frequence_3.data[MATERIAL_ID].ColorMap], inData.TexCoord);
color *= inData.VertexColor;
out_Color = color;
}
(The code is generated by a program I am developing which is why the code might look a little strange, but it should make the problem clear)
When trying to do so, I am told
error: 'variable index' : required extension not requested: GL_EXT_nonuniform_qualifier
(for the third last line where the texture lookup also happens)
After I followed a lot of discussion around how dynamically uniform is specified and that the shading language spec basically says the scope is specified by the API while neither OpenGL nor Vulkan really do so (maybe that changed), I am confused why i get that error.
Initially I wanted to use instanced vertex attributes for the indices, those however are not dynamically uniform which is what I thought the PushConstants would be.
So when PushConstants are constant during the draw call (which is the max scope for dynamically uniform requirement), how can the above shader end up in any dynamically non-uniform state?
Edit: Does it have to do with the fact that the buffer backing the storage for the "ColorMap" could be aliased by another buffer via which the content might be modified during the invocation? Or is there a way to tell the compiler this is a "restricted" storage so it knows it is constant?
Thanks
It is 3 am in the morning over here, I should just go to sleep.
Chances anyone end up having the same problem are small, but I'd still rather answer it myself than delete it:
I simply had to add a SpecializationConstant to set the size of the sampler2D array, now it works without requiring any extension.
Good night

Unexpeced value upon accessing an SSBO float

I am trying to calculate a morph offset for a gpu driven animation.
To that effect I have the following function (and SSBOS):
layout(std140, binding = 7) buffer morph_buffer
{
vec4 morph_targets[];
};
layout(std140, binding = 8) buffer morph_weight_buffer
{
float morph_weights[];
};
vec3 GetMorphOffset()
{
vec3 offset = vec3(0);
for(int target_index=0; target_index < target_count; target_index++)
{
float w1 = morph_weights[1];
offset += w1 * morph_targets[target_index * vertex_count + gl_VertexIndex].xyz;
}
return offset;
}
I am seeing strange behaviour so I opened renderdoc to trace the state:
As you can see, index 1 of the morph_weights SSBO is 0. However if I step over in the built in debugger for renderdoc I obtain:
Or in short, the variable I get back is 1, not 0.
So I did a little experiment and changed one of the values and now the SSBO looks like this:
And now I get this:
So my SSBO of type float is being treated like an ssbo of vec4's it seems. I am aware of alignment issues with vec3's, but IIRC floats are fair game. What is happenning?
Upon doing a little bit of asking around.
The issue is the SSBO is marked as std140, the correct std for a float array is std430.
For the vulkan GLSL dialect, an alternative is to use the scalar qualifier.

Dynamic indexing into uniform array of sampler2D doesn't work

I need to index into array of 2 uniform sampler2D. The index is dynamic per frame.That's,I have a dynamic uniform buffer which provides that index to a fragment shader. I use Vulkan API 1.2. In device feature listing I have:
shaderSampledImageArrayDynamicIndexing = 1
I am not sure 100% but It looks like this feature is core in 1.2.Nevertheless I did try to enable it during device creation like this:
VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures features = {};
features.shaderSampledImageArrayDynamicIndexing = VK_TRUE;
Then plugging into device creation:
VkDeviceCreateInfo deviceCreateInfo = {};
deviceCreateInfo.sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEVICE_CREATE_INFO;
deviceCreateInfo.pQueueCreateInfos = queueCreateInfos;
deviceCreateInfo.queueCreateInfoCount = 1;
deviceCreateInfo.pEnabledFeatures = &features ;
deviceCreateInfo.enabledExtensionCount = NUM_DEVICE_EXTENSIONS;
deviceCreateInfo.ppEnabledExtensionNames = deviceExtensionNames;
In the shader it looks like this:
layout(std140,set=0,binding=1)uniform Material
{
vec4 fparams0;
vec4 fparams1;
uvec4 iparams; //.z - array texture idx
uvec4 iparams1;
}material;
layout (set=1,binding = 0)uniform sampler2D u_ColorMaps[2];
layout (location = 0)in vec2 texCoord;
layout(location = 0) out vec4 outColor;
void main()
{
outColor = texture(u_ColorMaps[material.iparams.z],texCoord);
}
What I get is a combination of image pixels with some weird color. If I change to fixed indices - it works correctly. material.iparams.z param has been verified,it provides correct index number every frame (0 or 1). No idea what else is missing.Validation layers say nothing.
Mys setup: Windows, RTX3000 ,NVIDIA beta driver 443.41 (Vulkan 1.2)
Update:
I also found that dynamically indexed sampler return a value in Red channel (r)
which is close to one and zeros in GB. I don't set red color anyway,also the textures I fetch don't contain red. Here are two sreenshot, the upper is correct result which I get when indexing with constant value. Second is what happens when I index with dynamic uint which comes from dynamic UBO:
Correct
Wrong
The problem was due to usage of Y′CBCR samplers. It appears that Vulkan disallows indexing dynamically into array of such uniforms.
Here is what Vulkan specs says:
If the combined image sampler enables sampler Y′CBCR conversion or
samples a subsampled image, it must be indexed only by constant
integral expressions when aggregated into arrays in shader code,
irrespective of the shaderSampledImageArrayDynamicIndexing feature.
So,the solution for me was to provide two separately bound samplers and use dynamic indices with if()..else condition to decide which sampler to use. Push constants would also work,but in this case I have to re-record command buffers all the time. Hopefully this info will be helpful to other people working with video formats in Vulkan API.

What is the syntax for 'pixel_interlock_ordered' in GLSL?

I'm trying out the ARB_fragment_shader_interlock extension in OpenGL 4.5 and am failing to get the shader to compile when trying to use pixel_interlock_ordered.
#version 430
#extension GL_ARB_shading_language_420pack : require
#extension GL_ARB_shader_image_load_store : require
#extension GL_ARB_fragment_shader_interlock : require
layout(location = 0, rg8, pixel_interlock_ordered) uniform image2D image1;
void main()
{
beginInvocationInterlockARB();
ivec2 coords = ivec2(gl_FragCoord.xy);
vec4 pixel = imageLoad(image1, coords);
pixel.g = pixel.g + 0.01;
if (pixel.g > 0.5)
pixel.r = pixel.r + 0.01;
else
pixel.r = pixel.r + 0.02;
imageStore(image1, coords, pixel);
endInvocationInterlockARB();
}
The following shader fails compilation with:
0(6) : error C7600: no value specified for layout qualifier 'pixel_interlock_ordered'
Which is the same error you would get for any random name instead of pixel_interlock_ordered. I guess the syntax is different somehow, but the spec (https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/extensions/ARB/ARB_fragment_shader_interlock.txt) refer to it as a "layout qualifier".
Googling "pixel_interlock_ordered" comes up short with just links to the official specs, so I can't find an example. What is the correct syntax?
Layout qualifiers in GLSL are a bit weird. They usually apply to declarations, but some of them effectively apply to the shader as a whole. Such qualifiers are basically shader-specific options you set from within the shader.
The interlock qualifiers are those kinds of qualifiers. You're not saying that this variable will be accessed via interlocking, because that's not what interlocking means. It means that the execution of the interlock-bound code will have a certain property, relative to executing interlock-bound code on other invocations of the same shader. The qualifier specifies the details of the execution restriction.
Qualifiers that apply to the shader as a whole are grammatically specified as qualifiers on in or out (most such qualifiers use in, but a few use out):
layout(pixel_interlock_ordered) in;

Pass array of floats to fragment shader via texture

I am trying to pass an array of floats (in my case an audio wave) to a fragment shader via texture. It works but I get some imperfections as if the value read from the 1px height texture wasn't reliable.
This happens with many combinations of bar widths and amounts.
I get the value from the texture with:
precision mediump float;
...
uniform sampler2D uDisp;
...
void main(){
...
float columnWidth = availableWidth / barsCount;
float barIndex = floor((coord.x-paddingH)/columnWidth);
float textureX = min( 1.0, (barIndex+1.0)/barsCount );
float barValue = texture2D(uDisp, vec2(textureX, 0.0)).r;
...
If instead of the value from the texture I use something else the issue doesn't seem to be there.
barValue = barIndex*0.1;
Any idea what could be the issue? Is using a texture for this purpose a bad idea?
I am using Pixi.JS as WebGL framework, so I don't have access to low level APIs.
With a gradient texture for the data and many bars the problems becomes pretty evident.
Update: Looks like the issue relates to the consistency of the value of textureX.
Trying different formulas like barIndex/(barsCount-1.0) results in less noise. Wrapping it on a min definitely adds more noise.
Turned out the issue wasn't in reading the values from the texture, but was in the drawing. Instead of using IFs I switched to step and the problem went away.
vec2 topLeft = vec2(
paddingH + (barIndex*columnWidth) + ((columnWidth-barWidthInPixels)*0.5),
top
);
vec2 bottomRight = vec2(
topLeft.x + barWidthInPixels,
bottom
);
vec2 tl = step(topLeft, coord);
vec2 br = 1.0-step(bottomRight, coord);
float blend = tl.x * tl.y * br.x * br.y;
I guess comparisons of floats through IFs are not very reliable in shaders.
Generally mediump is insufficient for texture coordinates for any non-trivial texture, so where possible use highp. This isn't always available on some older GPUs, so depending on the platform this may not solve your problem.
If you know you are doing 1:1 mapping then also use GL_NEAREST rather than GL_LINEAR, as the quantization effect will more likely hide some of the precision side-effects.
Given you probably know the number of columns and bars you can probably pre-compute some of the values on the CPU (e.g. precompute 1/columns and pass that as a uniform) at fp32 precision. Passing in small values between 0 and 1 is always much better at preserving floating point accuracy, rather than passing in big values and then dividing out.