#ifndef _EFFECT_H
#define _EFFECT_H 1
+// Effect is the base class for every effect. It basically represents a single
+// GLSL function, with an optional set of user-settable parameters.
+//
+// A note on naming: Since all effects run in the same GLSL namespace,
+// you can't use any name you want for global variables (e.g. uniforms).
+// The framework assigns a prefix to you which will be unique for each
+// effect instance; use the macro PREFIX() around your identifiers to
+// automatically prepend that prefix.
+
#include <map>
#include <string>
+#include <vector>
#include <GL/gl.h>
+class EffectChain;
+
// Can alias on a float[2].
struct Point2D {
Point2D(float x, float y)
};
// Convenience functions that deal with prepending the prefix.
+GLint get_uniform_location(GLuint glsl_program_num, const std::string &prefix, const std::string &key);
+void set_uniform_int(GLuint glsl_program_num, const std::string &prefix, const std::string &key, int value);
void set_uniform_float(GLuint glsl_program_num, const std::string &prefix, const std::string &key, float value);
+void set_uniform_float_array(GLuint glsl_program_num, const std::string &prefix, const std::string &key, const float *values, size_t num_values);
void set_uniform_vec2(GLuint glsl_program_num, const std::string &prefix, const std::string &key, const float *values);
void set_uniform_vec3(GLuint glsl_program_num, const std::string &prefix, const std::string &key, const float *values);
+void set_uniform_vec4_array(GLuint glsl_program_num, const std::string &prefix, const std::string &key, const float *values, size_t num_values);
class Effect {
public:
- virtual bool needs_linear_light() { return true; }
- virtual bool needs_srgb_primaries() { return true; }
- virtual bool needs_many_samples() { return false; }
- virtual bool needs_mipmaps() { return false; }
+ // Whether this effects expects its input (and output) to be in
+ // linear gamma, ie. without an applied gamma curve. Most effects
+ // will want this, although the ones that never actually look at
+ // the pixels, e.g. mirror, won't need to care, and can set this
+ // to false. If so, the input gamma will be undefined.
+ //
+ // Also see the note on needs_texture_bounce(), below.
+ virtual bool needs_linear_light() const { return true; }
+
+ // Whether this effect expects its input to be in the sRGB
+ // color space, ie. use the sRGB/Rec. 709 RGB primaries.
+ // (If not, it would typically come in as some slightly different
+ // set of RGB primaries; you would currently not get YCbCr
+ // or something similar).
+ //
+ // Again, most effects will want this, but you can set it to false
+ // if you process each channel independently, equally _and_
+ // in a linear fashion.
+ virtual bool needs_srgb_primaries() const { return true; }
+
+ // Whether this effect expects its input to come directly from
+ // a texture. If this is true, the framework will not chain the
+ // input from other effects, but will store the results of the
+ // chain to a temporary (RGBA fp16) texture and let this effect
+ // sample directly from that.
+ //
+ // There are two good reasons why you might want to set this:
+ //
+ // 1. You are sampling more than once from the input,
+ // in which case computing all the previous steps might
+ // be more expensive than going to a memory intermediate.
+ // 2. You rely on previous effects, possibly including gamma
+ // expansion, to happen pre-filtering instead of post-filtering.
+ // (This is only relevant if you actually need the filtering; if
+ // you sample on whole input pixels only, it makes no difference.)
+ //
+ // Note that in some cases, you might get post-filtered gamma expansion
+ // even when setting this option. More specifically, if you are the
+ // first effect in the chain, and the GPU is doing sRGB gamma
+ // expansion, it is undefined (from OpenGL's side) whether expansion
+ // happens pre- or post-filtering. For most uses, however,
+ // either will be fine.
+ virtual bool needs_texture_bounce() const { return false; }
+
+ // Whether this effect expects mipmaps or not. If you set this to
+ // true, you will be sampling with bilinear filtering; if not,
+ // you could be sampling with simple linear filtering and no mipmaps
+ // (although there is no guarantee; if a different effect in the chain
+ // needs mipmaps, you will also get them).
+ virtual bool needs_mipmaps() const { return false; }
+
+ // How many inputs this effect will take (a fixed number).
+ // If you have only one input, it will be called INPUT() in GLSL;
+ // if you have several, they will be INPUT1(), INPUT2(), and so on.
+ virtual unsigned num_inputs() const { return 1; }
+
+ // Requests that this effect adds itself to the given effect chain.
+ // For most effects, the default will be fine, but for effects that
+ // consist of multiple passes, it is often useful to replace this
+ // with something that adds completely different things to the chain.
+ virtual void add_self_to_effect_chain(EffectChain *graph, const std::vector<Effect *> &inputs);
- virtual std::string output_convenience_uniforms();
- virtual std::string output_vertex_shader();
+ // Outputs one GLSL uniform declaration for each registered parameter
+ // (see below), with the right prefix prepended to each uniform name.
+ // If you do not want this behavior, you can override this function.
+ virtual std::string output_convenience_uniforms() const;
+
+ // Returns the GLSL fragment shader string for this effect.
virtual std::string output_fragment_shader() = 0;
- virtual void set_uniforms(GLuint glsl_program_num, const std::string& prefix);
+ // Set all OpenGL state that this effect needs before rendering.
+ // The default implementation sets one uniform per registered parameter,
+ // but no other state.
+ //
+ // <sampler_num> is the first free texture sampler. If you want to use
+ // textures, you can bind a texture to GL_TEXTURE0 + <sampler_num>,
+ // and then increment the number (so that the next effect in the chain
+ // will use a different sampler).
+ virtual void set_gl_state(GLuint glsl_program_num, const std::string& prefix, unsigned *sampler_num);
+
+ // If you set any special OpenGL state in set_gl_state(), you can clear it
+ // after rendering here. The default implementation does nothing.
+ virtual void clear_gl_state();
- // Neither of these take ownership.
- bool set_int(const std::string&, int value);
- bool set_float(const std::string &key, float value);
- bool set_vec2(const std::string &key, const float *values);
- bool set_vec3(const std::string &key, const float *values);
+ // Set a parameter; intended to be called from user code.
+ // Neither of these take ownership of the pointer.
+ virtual bool set_int(const std::string&, int value);
+ virtual bool set_float(const std::string &key, float value);
+ virtual bool set_vec2(const std::string &key, const float *values);
+ virtual bool set_vec3(const std::string &key, const float *values);
protected:
- // Neither of these take ownership.
+ // Register a parameter. Whenever set_*() is called with the same key,
+ // it will update the value in the given pointer (typically a pointer
+ // to some private member variable in your effect).
+ //
+ // Neither of these take ownership of the pointer.
+
+ // int is special since GLSL pre-1.30 doesn't have integer uniforms.
+ // Thus, ints that you register will _not_ be converted to GLSL uniforms.
void register_int(const std::string &key, int *value);
+
+ // These correspond directly to float/vec2/vec3 in GLSL.
void register_float(const std::string &key, float *value);
void register_vec2(const std::string &key, float *values);
void register_vec3(const std::string &key, float *values);
+
+ // This will register a 1D texture, which will be bound to a sampler
+ // when your GLSL code runs (so it corresponds 1:1 to a sampler2D uniform
+ // in GLSL).
+ //
+ // Note that if you change the contents of <values>, you will need to
+ // call invalidate_1d_texture() to have the picture re-uploaded on the
+ // next frame. This is in contrast to all the other parameters, which are
+ // set anew every frame.
+ void register_1d_texture(const std::string &key, float *values, size_t size);
+ void invalidate_1d_texture(const std::string &key);
private:
+ struct Texture1D {
+ float *values;
+ size_t size;
+ bool needs_update;
+ GLuint texture_num;
+ };
+
std::map<std::string, int *> params_int;
std::map<std::string, float *> params_float;
std::map<std::string, float *> params_vec2;
std::map<std::string, float *> params_vec3;
+ std::map<std::string, Texture1D> params_tex_1d;
};
#endif // !defined(_EFFECT_H)