GLSL skinning

Hello everybody,

I’m trying to do hardware skinning with GLSL but I’m always getting a linker error when trying to access my bone matrix array. Here is a simple test shader that causes the problem

uniform int index;
uniform mat4 skeleton[64];
	
void main(void) {
	
	mat4 test = skeleton[index];
		
	gl_TexCoord[0] = gl_MultiTexCoord0;
	gl_Position = gl_ModelViewProjectionMatrix * gl_Vertex;

}

I’m getting an error C5041: cannot locate suitable resource to bind parameter “<null atom>”

Can anybody tell me what’s wrong with the code or how else I can access the bone array with a vertex attribute index?

Thanks a lot!

The type ‘mat4’ takes up 4 ‘vec4’s’. Therefore, 64 of them will require 4 * 64 or 256 vec4’s. Which is the absolute limit in uniforms (on advanced hardware). Add one “int index”, and you overflow the number of uniforms.

Ah that’s the problem, so simple. Thank you very much Korval!