Issue with 2D normal maps

[Haikarainen]

I'm attempting to create a lighting system for a 2d platformer, which will include normal mapped textures(to give a sense of depth and detail in the textures). However I've ran across an issue, it's a really hard issue to explain so I created a minimal example of what I've got so far regarding normal maps.

To try and explain the problem; It's like the light direction for the normals is static to the whole texture, when I want it to be pixelperfect. I really cant explain it better than that, you have to see the examples.

Minimal example: https://gist.github.com/haikarainen/4c4ab515d9c13a7f467b
Windows Binaries and textures of example: haikarainen.dotgeek.org/release.7z

Any help is hugely appreciated as my math sucks.

Cheers

[G.]

You use mousePos as the light direction for every pixels. You shouldn't. (unless it's some kind of directional light :p)
Your light direction should be the vector from mousePos (the light position) to the pixel position. You can use gl_FragCoord to get the pixel position in window space. (If you want its position in world space I think you have to compute it in the vertex shader and pass it to the fragment shader with a varying variable)

[Haikarainen]

Thanks a ton Really makes sense for me now when I'm reading what you're typing. Think I was kind of destroyed yesterday (slept like 3 hrs per night whole week until tonight when I've slept like 11 hours, life with kid is hard).

Got a nice result now, although the mouse Y axis is inversed by some weird reason (not the actual mouse position, but how the light position sets itself based on the mouse pos), looking into that right now

[G.]

Yes, the pixel origin is in the lower left corner of the window. Whereas in SFML it's in the top left corner.
You could do mousePos.y = window.height - mousePos.y before sending it to the shader.
How old is your kid? Good luck.

[Haikarainen]

Yeah figured as much.

She is 2 years old in march, thanks!