How to get pixel information inside a fragment shader?
- by user697111
In my fragment shader I can load a texture, then do this:
uniform sampler2D tex;
void main(void) {
vec4 color = texture2D(tex, gl_TexCoord[0].st);
gl_FragColor = color;
}
That sets the current pixel to color value of texture. I can modify these, etc and it works well.
But a few questions. How do I tell "which" pixel I am? For example, say I want to set pixel 100,100 (x,y) to red. Everything else to black. How do I do a :
"if currentSelf.Position() == (100,100); then color=red; else color=black?"
?
I know how to set colors, but how do I get "my" location?
Secondly, how do I get values from a neighbor pixel?
I tried this:
vec4 nextColor = texture2D(tex, gl_TexCoord[1].st);
But not clear what it is returning? if I'm pixel 100,100; how do I get the values from 101,100 or 100,101?
