OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.3, Eighth Edition

A Simple Noise Shader

Now we put all these ideas into some shaders that do some interesting rendering for us. The first shader we look at uses noise in a simple way to produce a cloud effect.

Application Setup

Very little needs to be passed to the noise shaders discussed in this section, or in “Turbulence” and “Granite”. The vertex position must be passed in as always, and the surface normal is needed for performing lighting computations. Colors and scale factors are parameterized as uniform variables for the various shaders.

Vertex Shader

The code shown in Example 8.16 is the vertex shader that we use for the four noise fragment shaders that follow. It is fairly simple because it really only needs to accomplish three things.

• As in all vertex ...