openGL / GLSL: bloom/blur, rendering to FBO - c++

Question

I've reached another impasse I can't seem to resolve on my own. I really hope someone can help me out.
I've been trying to create a nice little bloom effect using GLSL, which worked quite well. When I tried including something moving into my scene I noticed that I forgot to clear my FBOs before rendering into them.
Without clearing it worked for never changing scenes because I was always using the same texture. With the glClear(); command it still works, but for the very first frame only, all I get after that is a black screen. So I guess my issue is that I can't get my FBOs to continuously be updated every frame.
I feel like I'm either missing something very obvious or doing something horribly wrong.
I'd be thankful for any suggestions you might have.
Here's what I get for the first frame:
Sources:
(using openFrameworks)
setup:
void testApp::setup(){
ofSetVerticalSync(true);
ofDisableSetupScreen();
width = ofGetWidth();
height = ofGetHeight();
//complie/link/generate ShaderObjects ....
horizontalBlurFrag.load("/opt/openframeworks/apps/examples/FBO_basic_shader_new_continued_v4_2/bin/data/fragment_shader_horizontal.glsl", GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER);
verticalBlurFrag.load("/opt/openframeworks/apps/examples/FBO_basic_shader_new_continued_v4_2/bin/data/fragment_shader_vertical.glsl", GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER);
BlurVertex.load("/opt/openframeworks/apps/examples/FBO_basic_shader_new_continued_v4_2/bin/data/horizontal_blur.glsl", GL_VERTEX_SHADER);
blendTextures.load("/opt/openframeworks/apps/examples/FBO_basic_shader_new_continued_v4_2/bin/data/blend_shader.glsl", GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER);
fboOriginal.initialize(width, height);
fboH800.initialize(width, height);
fboV800.initialize(width, height);
fboH400.initialize(width, height);
fboV400.initialize(width, height);}
draw:
void testApp::draw(){
glMatrixMode( GL_PROJECTION );
glLoadIdentity();
//set orthographic projection
glOrtho( -1, 1, -1, 1, 1.0, 40.0 );
glMatrixMode( GL_MODELVIEW );
glLoadIdentity();
glViewport( 0, 0, width, height);
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
fboOriginal.bind();
glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glPushAttrib(GL_VIEWPORT_BIT);
glViewport(0, 0, width, height);
glPushMatrix();
glScalef(0.1f, 0.1f, 1.0f);
//generating values between 0 and 2
float x = 2 * (sin(time)+1.000001)/2;
//drawSOlidRect(xPos, yPos, width, height, red, green, blue);
drawSolidRect(-8.0f, 8.0f, x, x, 0.4f, 0.4f, 1.0f);
drawSolidRect(-5.0f, 8.0f, x, x, 0.4f, 1.0f, 0.4f);
drawSolidRect(-2.0f, 8.0f, x, x, 0.4f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
drawSolidRect( 1.0f, 8.0f, x, x, 1.0f, 0.4f, 0.4f);
drawSolidRect( 4.0f, 8.0f, x, x, 1.0f, 0.4f, 1.0f);
drawSolidRect( 7.0f, 8.0f, x, x, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.4f);
glPopMatrix();
glPopAttrib();
fboOriginal.unbind();
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, fboOriginal.fboTexture);
BlurVertex.enable();
horizontalBlurFrag.enable();
glUniform1i(glGetUniformLocation(horizontalBlurFrag.program, "RTScene"), 0);
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
fboH800.bind();
glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glPushAttrib(GL_VIEWPORT_BIT);
glViewport(0, 0, width, height);
glPushMatrix();
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glColor3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0, -1.0, -1.0);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0, -1.0, -1.0);
glEnd();
glPopMatrix();
glPopAttrib();
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
fboH800.unbind();
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, fboH800.fboTexture);
BlurVertex.enable();
verticalBlurFrag.enable();
glUniform1i(glGetUniformLocation(verticalBlurFrag.program, "RTBlurH"), 0);
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
fboV800.bind();
glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glPushAttrib(GL_VIEWPORT_BIT);
glViewport(0, 0, width, height);
glPushMatrix();
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glColor3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0, -1.0, -1.0);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0, -1.0, -1.0);
glEnd();
glPopMatrix();
glPopAttrib();
fboV800.unbind();
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE1);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, fboV800.fboTexture);
BlurVertex.enable();
horizontalBlurFrag.enable();
glUniform1i(glGetUniformLocation(horizontalBlurFrag.program, "RTScene"), 1);
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
fboH400.bind();
glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glPushAttrib(GL_VIEWPORT_BIT);
glPushMatrix();
glViewport(0, 0, width/4, height/4); //crude downscale
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glColor3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0, -1.0, -1.0);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0, -1.0, -1.0);
glEnd();
glPopMatrix();
glPopAttrib();
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
fboH400.unbind();
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, fboH400.fboTexture);
BlurVertex.enable();
verticalBlurFrag.enable();
glUniform1i(glGetUniformLocation(verticalBlurFrag.program, "RTBlurH"), 1);
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
fboV400.bind();
glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glPushAttrib(GL_VIEWPORT_BIT);
glPushMatrix();
glViewport(0, 0, width*4, height*4); //crude downscale
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glColor3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0, -1.0, -1.0);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0, -1.0, -1.0);
glEnd();
glPopMatrix();
glPopAttrib();
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
fboV400.unbind();
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0);
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, fboV800.fboTexture);
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE1);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, fboV400.fboTexture);
BlurVertex.enable();
blendTextures.enable();
glUniform1i(glGetUniformLocation(blendTextures.program, "originalSizeTex"), 0);
glUniform1i(glGetUniformLocation(blendTextures.program, "downscaledTex"), 1);
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glColor3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glMultiTexCoord2fARB(GL_TEXTURE0, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glMultiTexCoord2fARB(GL_TEXTURE0, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glMultiTexCoord2fARB(GL_TEXTURE0, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(1.0, -1.0, -1.0);
glMultiTexCoord2fARB(GL_TEXTURE0, 0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0, -1.0, -1.0);
glEnd();
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);}
FBO:
class FrameBufferObject{
public:
//handles
GLuint fbo, fboTexture, fboDepthbuffer;
public:
void initialize(GLuint width, GLuint height){
// generate namespace for the frame buffer, colorbuffer and depthbuffer
glGenFramebuffersEXT(1, &fbo);
glGenTextures(1, &fboTexture);
glGenRenderbuffersEXT(1, &fboDepthbuffer);
//switch to our fbo so we can bind stuff to it
glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, fbo);
//create the colorbuffer texture and attach it to the frame buffer
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, fboTexture);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glGenerateMipmapEXT(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA8, width, height, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, NULL);
glFramebufferTexture2DEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT,GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0_EXT, GL_TEXTURE_2D, fboTexture, 0);
// create a render buffer as our depthbuffer and attach it
glBindRenderbufferEXT(GL_RENDERBUFFER_EXT, fboDepthbuffer);
glRenderbufferStorageEXT(GL_RENDERBUFFER_EXT, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT24,width, height);
glFramebufferRenderbufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, GL_DEPTH_ATTACHMENT_EXT, GL_RENDERBUFFER_EXT, fboDepthbuffer);
// Go back to regular frame buffer rendering
glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, 0);
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
}
void bind(){
glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, fbo);
}
void unbind(){
glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, 0);
}
void clear(){
glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, fbo);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, 0);
}};
UPDATE:
The alpha value one the glClearColor at least seems to be part of my issue.
I tried messing around with it and what i got is this:
(with up- and downscaling quads as you'd expect)
Somehow i seem to be losing all color somewhere along the way.
Oddly enough i got the best result having (0, 0, 0, 0) for 4 of my FBOs and (0, 0, 0, 1) for one of them. Setting (0, 0, 0, 0) for all FBOs just yields a greyish picture (which i assume is the default window without anything in it).
Here's my "blending-together-shader":
uniform sampler2D originalSizeTex;
uniform sampler2D downscaledTex;
varying vec2 vTexCoord;
void main(void){
vec4 colorOriginal = vec4(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
vec4 colorDownscale = vec4(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
colorOriginal = texture2D(originalSizeTex, vTexCoord.xy);
colorDownscale = texture2D(downscaledTex, vTexCoord.xy);
gl_FragColor = vec4(colorOriginal + colorDownscale);
}
Any guesses?

Answer 1

Depends on how you're doing your blending, but -- you might need to set the clear color to 0,0,0,0 instead of 0,0,0,1 when you clear your FBO.