Tiger GLSL Drivers

[H.Stony]

i use the noise2 function in fragment shader. if i do so it looks like a software fallback.

my shader:

uniform sampler2D colorMap;
uniform sampler2D noiseMap;
uniform sampler2D reflektion;

uniform float timer;
varying vec3 lDir;
varying vec3 normal;
varying vec3 halfVector;

void main (void)
{
	vec3 noiseVec;
	vec2 displacement;
	float scaledTimer;
     vec3 halfV;
     float NdotHV;
	float spec = 50.4;
	float ambient = 0.2;

	displacement = gl_TexCoord[0].st * 0.8;

	scaledTimer = timer*0.1;

	displacement.x += scaledTimer;
	displacement.y -= scaledTimer;

// THIS LINE CAUSES SOFTWARE FALLBACK
displacement = noise2(displacement);

	vec4 bumpColor = texture2D(noiseMap, displacement.xy);
	noiseVec = normalize(bumpColor).xyz;
	noiseVec = (noiseVec * 2.0 - 1.0) * 0.035;
	vec3 vNormal = normalize(2.0 * (bumpColor.rgb - 0.5));

	vec3 color = vec3(ambient, ambient, ambient);

	float NDotL = max(dot(lDir, vNormal),0.0);

    if (NDotL > 0.0) 
    {
        color += NDotL;
        
        halfV = normalize(halfVector);
        NdotHV = max(dot(vNormal,halfV),0.0);
        color += 3.0 * (pow(NdotHV,spec));
	   color += 1.0 * NdotHV;
    }

	float a=0.5;
//vec4(20.0/255.0,50.0/255.0,60.0/255.0,1.0);
	vec4 waterColor = vec4(20.0/255.0,50.0/255.0,60.0/255.0,1.0);;//texture2D(colorMap, gl_TexCoord[0].st + noiseVec.xy * 5.0);//vec4(0.0,0.0,1.0,1.0);
	vec4 t = waterColor * (1.0-a) + texture2D(reflektion, gl_TexCoord[0].st + noiseVec.xy * 5.0) * a;

	t.a=1.0;
	
	gl_FragColor = t * vec4(color,1.0);
}

[arekkusu]

Correct. No shipping hardware supports noise.

[Frogblast]

As arekkusu said, you just won’t get noise. If you allow Recovery renderers on OS X, you’ll get software fallback. On Windows, I believe ATI will do SW Fallback as well, and NV will return 0.

I suggest manually implementing Simplex noise instead. It can be done on all GLSL capable hardware, provided you are not already near your instruction limit.

http://staffwww.itn.liu.se/~stegu/simplexnoise/index.php

There are 6 total variants in that sample code. Try all 6, and see what works for you. Usually, Simplex noise will be faster.

[H.Stony]

thanks