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Offline Shot

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Normal matrix
« on: July 27, 2013, 09:18:49 pm »
Is there a way to send a normal matrix (transpose of inverse of model view matrix) to shader for every object in a scene?
« Last Edit: July 27, 2013, 10:01:42 pm by Shot »

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Re: Normal matrix
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2013, 10:00:09 pm »
You don't have to. I think the source of the shaders in the HelloShader example show what to do instead.

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Re: Normal matrix
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2013, 10:06:28 pm »
Yep, I saw it, but imho it's not correct because after this operation normal may not be prependicular to its' surface. See this explanation: http://www.lighthouse3d.com/tutorials/glsl-tutorial/the-normal-matrix/

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Re: Normal matrix
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2013, 11:01:12 am »
Calculation normals from modelViewMatrix is faster and for orthogonal transformations it is fine (transpose and invert is about O(300)) ;)

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Re: Normal matrix
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2013, 11:16:03 am »
I see, but what about non-orthogonal transformations? Is it a proper way of thinking: orthogonal camera == orthogonal transformations and perspective camera == non-orthogonal transformations?

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Re: Normal matrix
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2013, 06:20:36 pm »
No, non orthogonal transformation is for example scale in x axis