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General / Re: Palette shader problem

« on: April 26, 2012, 12:23:45 pm »

Time to bump.

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General / Re: Palette shader problem

« on: April 24, 2012, 01:23:49 am »

Not sure, why I did this (never thought it will help), but I've changed 1D-texture's width to 255 instead of 256. Now colors are correct, but FPS then drops from 120 to 6-8. How to reproduce same effect, but in more OpenGL-friendly way? (index = (index / 256.0) * 255.0) does not work as expected, producing only more wrong colors.

Texture initialization code:

        glGenTextures(1, &this->m_PaletteTex);
        glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_1D, this->m_PaletteTex);

        // here I tried changing 256 to 255, which fixed color offsets but introduced massive lag
        glTexImage1D(GL_TEXTURE_1D, 0, 4, 256, 0, GL_BGRA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, this->m_Palette);
        glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_1D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
        glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_1D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
        glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_1D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP);
        glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_1D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP);

        glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_1D, 0);
 

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General / Re: Rotate using mouse without constraint of the window

« on: April 24, 2012, 12:40:07 am »

You need four variables: delta_x, delta_y, last_x and last_y;
The first two will contain mouse cursor position relative to last frame drawn, the last are used to store previous pointer position.

1. Set delta_x, delta_y to zero.
2. Receive mouse event.
3. delta_x = last_x-event.MouseMove.X; delta_y = last_y-event.MouseMove.Y;
4. last_x += delta_x; last_y += delta_y;
5. Process received values (delta_x and delta_y).
6. Use sf::Window::SetCursorPosition(window_center_x, window_center_y) to set cursor position to window's center.
7. Repeat from step 1.

The method described above is fairly simple and is used by most 3-D games, especially FPS ones.

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General / Palette shader problem

« on: April 24, 2012, 12:27:45 am »

Well, it's not really related to SFML, but I see that's common thing in General forum

I'm writing some game engine (in fact, reverse-engineering one old game).
I need to be able to load an image (it's in game's internal format, uses palette and per-pixel alpha) and then swap it's palette at rendering time; First I used to load full copy of the image for each needed palette, but that seems to consume too much memory (over 70mb per sprite, nearly 200 different possible sprites/palettes, all on the same game level). So then I left old solution as fallback if shaders are not supported and started writing a shader that will apply a palette to my image, so memory usage can be reduced to ~10mb or even ~5mb per sprite (~100 images).

Now, look at this screenshot:

As you probably can notice, the colors are a bit off their real index, but I'm not sure why it happened.

This is how it's supposed to look like (with shaders disabled):


The image loading code is all ok (see second screenshot). Problem should be in the shader code, but I'm not really sure where is it.

Fragment shader code:

#extension GL_ARB_texture_rectangle : enable

uniform sampler2DRect rec1;
uniform sampler1D palette;

void main(void)
{
        vec4 oldcol = texture2DRect(rec1, gl_TexCoord[0].st);
        float index = (oldcol.r + oldcol.g + oldcol.b) / 3;
        vec4 newcol = texture1D(palette, index);

        gl_FragColor.rgb = newcol.rgb * gl_Color.rgb;
        gl_FragColor.a = oldcol.a * gl_Color.a;
}

rec1 = GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB texture containing palette index in (r,g,b) and per-pixel alpha.
palette = GL_TEXTURE_1D texture, 256 texels wide, containing palette colors.

I'm really stuck here, please help