I am trying to write a shader which will apply gaussian blur to a texture. I can do it with a fixed radius size. What i am trying to do is get the blur radius from user and apply the gaussian filter with that radius.
For now i am using something like this with fixed radius 7.(of course there is vertical shader too)
void main(void)
{
vec4 sum = vec4(0.0);
sum += texture2D(RTScene, vec2(vTexCoord.x - 4.0*blurSize, vTexCoord.y)) * 0.05;
sum += texture2D(RTScene, vec2(vTexCoord.x - 3.0*blurSize, vTexCoord.y)) * 0.09;
sum += texture2D(RTScene, vec2(vTexCoord.x - 2.0*blurSize, vTexCoord.y)) * 0.12;
sum += texture2D(RTScene, vec2(vTexCoord.x - blurSize, vTexCoord.y)) * 0.15;
sum += texture2D(RTScene, vec2(vTexCoord.x, vTexCoord.y)) * 0.16;
sum += texture2D(RTScene, vec2(vTexCoord.x + blurSize, vTexCoord.y)) * 0.15;
sum += texture2D(RTScene, vec2(vTexCoord.x + 2.0*blurSize, vTexCoord.y)) * 0.12;
sum += texture2D(RTScene, vec2(vTexCoord.x + 3.0*blurSize, vTexCoord.y)) * 0.09;
sum += texture2D(RTScene, vec2(vTexCoord.x + 4.0*blurSize, vTexCoord.y)) * 0.05;
gl_FragColor = sum;
}