I was looking at OpenGL examples and before creating object these two examples follow different ways. What are the differences between these two examples?
1)
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,myImg);
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE1);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,myImg2);
2)
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, _textureId[0]);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
in first example we activate two unit and assign one texture to each unit.but sample 2 is different .it enables 2D texture mapping on current active layer and set filtering parameters.the key concept is texture unit in OpenGL.
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For cascaded shadow mapping I'm trying to use a GL_TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY for the individual shadow maps. However following tutorials found online and even looking up things in a textbook I can't seem to create a working framebuffer, as it always errors with GL_FRAMEBUFFER_INCOMPLETE_MISSING_ATTACHMENT.
The code:
glGenFramebuffers(1, &m_DepthMap.m_FrameBuffer);
glGenTextures(1, &m_DepthMap.m_DepthTexture);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY, m_DepthMap.m_DepthTexture);
glTexImage3D(
GL_TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY,
0,
GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT32F,
Renderer::m_ShadowMapResolution,
Renderer::m_ShadowMapResolution,
3,
0,
GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT,
GL_FLOAT,
nullptr);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP_TO_BORDER);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP_TO_BORDER);
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, m_DepthMap.m_FrameBuffer);
glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_ATTACHMENT, GL_TEXTURE_2D, m_DepthMap.m_DepthTexture, 0);
glDrawBuffer(GL_NONE);
glReadBuffer(GL_NONE);
const int status = glCheckFramebufferStatus(GL_FRAMEBUFFER);
if (status != GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE)
{
std::cout << "ERROR::FRAMEBUFFER:: Framebuffer is not complete!";
throw 0;
}
Sources that tell me that this should be correct:
https://people.inf.elte.hu/plisaai/pdf/OpenGL%20Insights.pdf , page 264
https://johanmedestrom.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/opengl-cascaded-shadow-maps/
What am I doing wrong here? Why is the framebuffer incomplete?
The tutorial you cited has led you astray.
A 2D texture is not the same thing as a 2D array texture. You can either attach a specific array layer (of a specific mipmap level) to a framebuffer, or attach all of the array images in a mipmap. In neither of these cases can you call glFramebufferTexture2D to do this for an array texture (which is why you should be checking for OpenGL errors in one way or another, as this function should have errored out).
In any case, if you want to attach a specific array layer to the framebuffer, then you want to use glFramebufferTextureLayer. If you want to attach it as a layered attachment (because you're doing layered rendering), then you'd use glFramebufferTexture.
I am rendering a huge 3D cube array, that sometimes counts thousands of cubes aligned right next to one another. I am rendering a jpg texture to the cubes, which is just a simple color with a black border around the frame.
The problem:
The array is huge, and the distant parts of the array get kind of mixed into one another, so to say. In other words, the borders in the distant cubes sometimes completely disappear, sometimes they form an arbitrary wavey line together with other neighboring borders. All in all, the scene looks kind of messy because all the fine details (hard borders between the neighboring cubes) are lost/melted together. After searching for the solution online, I understand that the problem might be in my choice of texture filtering options.
This is how the problem actually looks like in OpenGL:
This is how the current code for loading texture and setting texture parameters looks like:
glGenTextures(1, &texture3);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture3);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT);
// set texture filtering parameters
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
//load image:
data = stbi_load("resources/textures/gray_border.jpg", &width, &height, &nrChannels, 0);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, width, height, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, data);
glGenerateMipmap(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
By now, I have tried playing with changing different parameters to the function glGenerateMipmap() and altering between the parameters in the glTexParameteri() function, but none did work by now.
If you want to enable Mip Mapping, then you have to use one of the minifying functions like GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_NEAREST, GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST, GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR or GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR, see glTexParameter and Texture - Mip Maps:
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR);
A further improvement can be gained by Anisotropic filtering, which is provides by the extension ARB_texture_filter_anisotropic and is a core feature since OpenGL 4.6.
e.g.
glTextureParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY, 16);
See Sampler Object - Anisotropic filtering
I have created a simple OpenGL application.
When zooming into a textured quad, the texture becomes pixelated instead of blurry. I would guess that is due to missing mipmaps?
I create my texture like this:
glGenTextures(1, &mTexture);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, mTexture);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
And I update it from a PBO like this:
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, mTexture);
glBindBuffer(GL_PIXEL_UNPACK_BUFFER_ARB, mPboIds[mPboIndex]);
glTexSubImage2D(
GL_TEXTURE_2D,
0, 0, 0,
frame->GetWidth(),
frame->GetHeight(),
GL_RGB,
GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,
0);
I thought that GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER and GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER would tell OpenGL to generate the mipmaps. Ain't that the case?
How can I enable mipmap generation for my texture?
The magnification filter is used when you increase the zoom on a texture, and can have two values:
GL_NEAREST - Returns the value of the texture element that is nearest (in Manhattan distance) to the specified texture coordinates.
GL_LINEAR - Returns the weighted average of the texture elements that are closest to the specified texture coordinates. These can include items wrapped or repeated from other parts of a texture, depending on the values of GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S and GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, and on the exact mapping.
In your case, you are use the wrong magnification filter. It must be GL_LINEAR to minimize the pixelated effect.
MipMaps, for the other hand is used when you want to decrease the zoom and want to get a smooth transition when the texture start to become too far away from the viewer. To get more information about MipMaps, you can look at glTexParameter manual pages, at section GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, and how to generate in glGenerateMipmap manual page.
I'm having some trouble with a render-to-texture operation. I create a FBO, attach a texture, render to it, and everything's fine, but when I try to change the attached texture, either to 0 or to a new handle, by calling glFramebufferTexture2DEXT again, the texture I had attached becomes blank (all pixel values reset to (0, 0, 0, 0)).
The documentation doesn't say that this is supposed to happen, and it's a bit troublesome for me because I need to retain the information in this texture. Does anyone know why this is happening, and how to prevent or work around it?
Just ran into a nearly the same situation. The end solution was when we were creating the texture we had to make sure to set up the TexParameters.
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
According to https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL-Refpages/gl4/html/glTexParameter.xhtml, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER defaults to GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR but we weren't mipmapping. I am not sure why that would cause the texture to appear to be erased, but that is what we did to fix it.
Does glTexParamter act on all textures globally or only the texture that is currently bound.
For example, if I call this at the texture load:
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT);
And this on another texture load:
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP);
When I bind the first texture will it just use the last value I set (GL_CLAMP) or will it use the values originally set when the texture was bound?
From the OpenGL FAQ:
21.070 How do texture objects work?
Texture objects store texture maps and their associated texture parameter state. They allow switching between textures with a single call to glBindTexture().
(...)
The following functions affect and store state in texture objects: glTexImage*(), glTexSubImage*(), glCopyTexImage*(), glCopyTexSubImage*(), glTexParameter*(), and glPrioritizeTextures(). Since the GLU routines for building mipmap pyramids ultimately call glTexImage*(), they also affect texture object state.Noticeably absent from this list are glTexEnv*() and glTexGen*(); they do not store state in texture objects.
Ergo, glTexParameter* affects only the bound texture.