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Lua Game Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Lua Game Development Cookbook Over 70 recipes that will help you master the elements and best practices required to build a modern game engine using Lua

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781849515504
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mário Kašuba Mário Kašuba
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Basics of the Game Engine 2. Events FREE CHAPTER 3. Graphics – Common Methods 4. Graphics – Legacy Method with OpenGL 1.x–2.1 5. Graphics – Modern Method with OpenGL 3.0+ 6. The User Interface 7. Physics and Game Mechanics 8. Artificial Intelligence 9. Sounds and Networking Index

Writing a fragment (pixel) shader


Fragment shader operates on pixel fragments from the rasterization process. The rasterizer transforms the whole graphical scene into a set of values that form fragments. A set of values that are related to one graphical primitive is called a fragment. These values may contain colors, alpha transparency, depth values, or even user supplied data. The fragment shader program might even decide whether to discard certain pixels from being drawn into the frame buffer.

Fragment shaders are often used in two-pass postprocessing. In the first pass, the whole scene is rendered into the texture or a buffer by using the first fragment shader. This shader renders primitives without postprocessing effects. In the second pass, this texture is used on a rectangle that covers the whole screen. This pass uses the fragment shader to control rendering of the texture on the rectangle. This way you can apply various effects such as High Definition Range transformation—HDR, screen...

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