I am working with CGFX Shader. In my project, I used 3D points dataset. I’ve implemented CGGX Shader on 3d points to have the Point Size Attenuation effect. In my CGFX shader I found: ‘PointDistanceAttenuation = float3(1.0, 0, 0);’ in ‘Renderstates of Vertex Pipeline’
I’ve tried with PointDistanceAttenuation = float3(0,1.0,0) to have a linear point size attenuation, but it doesn’t work, all the points look like in a same size.
Actually, the 3D points which are far away should look smaller than those closer to the viewer.
Anybody knows:
–How to active PointDistanceAttenuation property in CGFX shader?
–or before activation of PointDistanceAttenuation I have to enable other states?
–PointDistanceAttnuation is used to set PointSize? or Point lighting?
Well, I’m no point sprite guru, but I’m guessing that PointDistanceAttenuation is POINT_DISTANCE_ATTENUATION in ARB_point_parameters. This is the old pre-shaders way of controlling point spites.
You’re using CgFX. So you’re writing your own shaders. Just set the point size yourself! glEnable( GL_VERTEX_PROGRAM_POINT_SIZE ) – aka GL_PROGRAM_POINT_SIZE in GL3.2 – and then set gl_PointSize in the vertex shader. You’ll need to map gl_PointSize (GLSL) to Cg language though.