Why can't access the G-Buffer from my lighting shader? - c++

Question

I implemented a new rendering pipeline in my engine and rendering is broken now. When I directly draw a texture of the G-Buffer to screen, it shows up correctly. So the G-Buffer is fine. But somehow the lighting pass makes trouble. Even if I don't use the resulting texture of it but try to display albedo from G-Buffer after the lighting pass, it shows a solid gray color.
I can't explain this behavior and the strange thing is that there are no OpenGL errors at any point.
Vertex Shader to draw a fullscreen quad.
#version 330
in vec4 vertex;
out vec2 coord;
void main()
{
coord = vertex.xy;
gl_Position = vertex * 2.0 - 1.0;
}
Fragment Shader for lighting.
#version 330
in vec2 coord;
out vec3 image;
uniform int type = 0;
uniform sampler2D positions;
uniform sampler2D normals;
uniform vec3 light;
uniform vec3 color;
uniform float radius;
uniform float intensity = 1.0;
void main()
{
if(type == 0) // directional light
{
vec3 normal = texture2D(normals, coord).xyz;
float fraction = max(dot(normalize(light), normal) / 2.0 + 0.5, 0);
image = intensity * color * fraction;
}
else if(type == 1) // point light
{
vec3 pixel = texture2D(positions, coord).xyz;
vec3 normal = texture2D(normals, coord).xyz;
float dist = max(distance(pixel, light), 1);
float magnitude = 1 / pow(dist / radius + 1, 2);
float cutoff = 0.4;
float attenuation = clamp((magnitude - cutoff) / (1 - cutoff), 0, 1);
float fraction = clamp(dot(normalize(light - pixel), normal), -1, 1);
image = intensity * color * attenuation * max(fraction, 0.2);
}
}
Targets and samplers for the lighting pass. Texture ids are mapped to attachment respectively shader location.
unordered_map<GLenum, GLuint> targets;
targets.insert(make_pair(GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT2, ...)); // light
targets.insert(make_pair(GL_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT, ...)); // depth and stencil
unordered_map<string, GLuint> samplers;
samplers.insert(make_pair("positions", ...)); // positions from G-Buffer
samplers.insert(make_pair("normals", ...)); // normals from G-Buffer
Draw function for lighting pass.
void DrawLights(unordered_map<string, GLuint> Samplers, GLuint Program)
{
auto lis = Entity->Get<Light>();
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
glEnable(GL_BLEND);
glBlendFunc(GL_ONE, GL_ONE);
glUseProgram(Program);
int n = 0; for(auto i : Samplers)
{
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0 + n);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, i.second);
glUniform1i(glGetUniformLocation(Program, i.first.c_str()), n);
n++;
}
mat4 view = Entity->Get<Camera>(*Global->Get<unsigned int>("camera"))->View;
for(auto i : lis)
{
int type = i.second->Type == Light::DIRECTIONAL ? 0 : 1;
vec3 pos = vec3(view * vec4(Entity->Get<Form>(i.first)->Position(), !type ? 0 : 1));
glUniform1i(glGetUniformLocation(Program, "type"), type);
glUniform3f(glGetUniformLocation(Program, "light"), pos.x, pos.y, pos.z);
glUniform3f(glGetUniformLocation(Program, "color"), i.second->Color.x, i.second->Color.y, i.second->Color.z);
glUniform1f(glGetUniformLocation(Program, "radius"), i.second->Radius);
glUniform1f(glGetUniformLocation(Program, "intensity"), i.second->Intensity);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glVertex2i(0, 0);
glVertex2i(1, 0);
glVertex2i(1, 1);
glVertex2i(0, 1);
glEnd();
}
glDisable(GL_BLEND);
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0);
}

Answer 1

I found the error and it was such a stupid one. The old rendering pipeline bound the correct framebuffer before calling the draw function of that pass. But the new one didn't so each draw function had to do that itself. Therefore I wanted to update all draw function, but I missed the draw function of the lighting pass.
Therefore the framebuffer of the G-Buffer was still bound and the lighting pass changed its targets.
Thanks to you guys, you had no change to find that error, since I hadn't posted my complete pipeline system.