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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