Question about texture blending

Very simple question i hope. I just want to texture a simple quad with a grey scale texture: the result i’m looking for is that pixels alpha should follow the texture, i.e. trasparent where texture pixels are black, alpha=1 if are white, and so on for intermediate grey values.
Can you tell me how shouldi modify the actual fragment shader ? Thanks

uniform sampler2D testTexture;

void main( void )
{
	vec4 texel;
	texel = texture2D( testTexture, gl_TexCoord[0].st) ;
	gl_FragColor = vec4(texel.rgb , texel.a) ;

}
 

If I correctly understand what you want to do, then you should change this line:

gl_FragColor = vec4(texel.rgb , texel.a) ;

to:

gl_FragColor = vec4(gl_Color.rgb , texel.a) ;

This works if the texture has an alpha channel, but what if it is just a RGB ?

Try to take the average of the r, g, b:

gl_FragColor = vec4(gl_Color.rgb ,
0.3333333333333*(texel.r + texel.g + texel.b)) ;

Not sure what you’d want to do with RGBA textures…

Excuse me for poor explanation, i’ve two screenshot that will explain better, i hope, what i’d like to achieve. The shots show a sphere with a 3d noise texture applied on it.
First shot shows what it looks like now, second shot what i’d like to get.
Here are the vertex and frag shaders code.

//vertex frag
varying float LightIntensity;
varying vec3  MCposition;

uniform vec3  LightPos;
float Scale = 0.01;

void main(void)
{
    vec3 ECposition = vec3 (gl_ModelViewMatrix * gl_Vertex);
    MCposition      = vec3 (gl_Vertex) * Scale;
    vec3 tnorm      = normalize(vec3 (gl_NormalMatrix * gl_Normal));
    LightIntensity  = dot(normalize(LightPos - ECposition), tnorm);
    LightIntensity *= 0.75;
    gl_Position     = ftransform();
}
  
 
// Pixel frag
varying float LightIntensity; 
varying vec3  MCposition;

uniform sampler3D testTexture;
vec3 SkyColor;     // (0.0, 0.0, 0.8)
vec3 CloudColor;   // (0.8, 0.8, 0.8)

void main (void)
{
SkyColor[0] = 0.0;
SkyColor[1] = 0.0;
SkyColor[2] = 0.0;
CloudColor[0] = 0.8;
CloudColor[1] = 0.8;
CloudColor[2] = 0.8;

    vec4  noisevec  = texture3D(testTexture, MCposition);

    float intensity = (noisevec[0] + noisevec[1] + 
                       noisevec[2] + noisevec[3] + 0.03125) * 1.5;

    vec3 color   = mix(SkyColor, CloudColor, intensity) * LightIntensity - 0.25;

    gl_FragColor = vec4 (color, 1.0);	

}
 

Thanks for any help.

Have you tried using “intensity” as the alpha?

gl_FragColor = vec4 (color, intensity);

Yes, but it doesnt work.

What i dont understand is:

when i call gl_FragColor = vec4(color, test) ;

test is the alpha of the resulting image ?
If so, it doesn’t make any difference wether is 0.1 or 1.0, the transparency doesn’t change.

Stupid question:
Is alpha blending enabled?
Is the alpha blend function set to something like SRC_ALPHA/ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA?

No it’s not enabled ! Probably (i hope) that’s the problem, but shaders do not operate regardless of fixed opengl blend status ?

Alpha blending is done after the pixel shader is run. It works whether you’re in fixed pipeline or in programmable pipeline. You should have it enabled.

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