One texture for many quads

[Mac70]

Like in topic. Is this possible to bind one texture to many quads and triangles and cover them all in this way? If yes - is this efficient, or maybe there is better way of making and covering 2d models than tons of quads and triangles?

[theagentd]

I don't get what you mean...? You can draw the same texture as many times as you want, so of course you can put the same texture on as many triangles as you want.

[Mac70]

I have situation like this:



Polygon on this example is made from 3 quads and 1 triangle. I want to texture them all, result should be one visible texture on all of them (like on third picture), not 4 visible textures like on second picture. Is this possible?

Also, is there better way of making polygons than "connecting" many quads and triangles?

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[theagentd]

I have situation like this:



Polygon on this example is made from 3 quads and 1 triangle. I want to texture them all, result should be one visible texture on all of them (like on third picture), not 4 visible textures like on second picture. Is this possible?

Also, is there better way of making polygons than "connecting" many quads and triangles?

1.You basically want to sample a texture based on the screen position, so just do that with texture coordinates.

2. No, OpenGL can only draw triangles. Even a quad is just two triangles as far as OpenGL is concerned. In the later versions GL_QUADS is deprecated.

[pitbuller]

at vertex shader.

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void main() {         gl_Position = u_mvp * a_position;      v_screenCoords = gl_Position;    v_screenCoords.xy += v_screenCoords.w;    v_screenCoords.xy *=0.5; }

at fragment shader:

1	vec4 tex = texture2DProj(u_texture, v_screenCoords);

This is by far fastest and cleanest way to do it.
For iOs devices this is superior because this do not need dependant texture read.

[theagentd]

Isn't a shader a bit too advanced if he's having problem with this kind of thing, don't you think? Just do it with glBegin()-glEnd(). Here's an example for a simple screen aligned quad:

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glBegin(GL_QUADS); {     glTexCoord2f(x / screenWidth, y / screenHeight);     glVertex2f(x, y);     glTexCoord2f((x + width) / screenWidth, y / screenHeight);     glVertex2f(x + width, y);     glTexCoord2f((x + width) / screenWidth, (y+height) / screenHeight);     glVertex2f(x + width, y + height);     glTexCoord2f(x / screenWidth, (y+height) / screenHeight);     glVertex2f(x, y + height); } glEnd();

Notice how the texture coordinates are the same as the vertex coordinates but divided by the screenWidth. I assume that the texture you want to sample from is screen sized and that you're drawing "holes" where the background can be seen.

There are other more powerful ways of doing this too. You could for example use the stencil buffer to mark pixels with your geometry (no textures used yet) and then in a second pass just draw the a quad covering the whole screen with the texture but only modifying the marked pixels.