WebGL Simple 2D Example 9

Move webGL drawing code to a function.

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var gl, canvas, vertices = []

// Draws 2 triangles to make a rectangle.
function drawRectangle(x, y, width, height, r, g, b, a) {
	var x2 = x+width
	var y2 = y+height
	vertices.push(
		x, y, r, g, b, a,
		x, y2, r, g, b, a,
		x2, y2, r, g, b, a
	)
	vertices.push(
		x, y, r, g, b, a,
		x2, y, r, g, b, a,
		x2, y2, r, g, b, a
	)
}
	
function gameLoop() {
	window.requestAnimationFrame(gameLoop)

	// Draw the moving rectangle.
	var x = 250+Math.sin(Date.now()*.004)*250
	var y = 200
	var blue = 128 + Math.floor(Math.sin(Date.now()*.01) * 127)
	drawRectangle(
		x, y,
		100, 200,
		0, 255, blue, 1
	)
	
// UPDATE: Moved webGL commands to draw everything to a function. glRender() }
// UPDATE: moved to function. function glRender() { // Clear the screen. gl.clear(gl.COLOR_BUFFER_BIT) // Tell webGL to draw these triangle this frame. gl.bufferData(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, new Float32Array(vertices), gl.STATIC_DRAW) // Draw all the triangles. gl.drawArrays(gl.TRIANGLES, 0, vertices.length/6) // Clear vertices. We will fill it every frame. // This way you don't need to delete objects from the screen. You just stop drawing them. vertices = [] }
function glSetup() { gl = myCanvas.getContext("experimental-webgl") // Set the background color to sky blue. gl.clearColor(.5, .7, 1, 1) // Tell webGL that we aren't doing anything special with the vertex buffer, just use a default one. gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, gl.createBuffer()) // Vertex shader source code. var vertCode = "attribute vec2 coordinates;" + "attribute vec4 rgba;" + "varying highp vec4 rgbaForFrag;" + " uniform vec2 canvasSize;" + "void main(void) {" + " vec2 drawPos;" + // Divide the position by our current canvas size. " drawPos = coordinates / canvasSize * 2.0;" + // We are passing in only 2D coordinates. Then Z is always 0.0 and the divisor is always 1.0 " gl_Position = vec4(drawPos.x - 1.0, 1.0 - drawPos.y, 0.0, 1.0);" + // Pass the color and transparency to the fragment shader. " rgbaForFrag = vec4(rgba.xyz / 255.0, rgba.w);" + "}" // Create a vertex shader object. var vertShader = gl.createShader(gl.VERTEX_SHADER) gl.shaderSource(vertShader, vertCode) gl.compileShader(vertShader) console.log(gl.getShaderInfoLog(vertShader)) // Fragment shader source code. var fragCode = "varying highp vec4 rgbaForFrag;" + "void main(void) {" + " gl_FragColor = rgbaForFrag;" + "}" // Create fragment shader object. var fragShader = gl.createShader(gl.FRAGMENT_SHADER) gl.shaderSource(fragShader, fragCode) gl.compileShader(fragShader) console.log(gl.getShaderInfoLog(fragShader)) // Tell webGL to use both my shaders. shaderProgram = gl.createProgram() gl.attachShader(shaderProgram, vertShader) gl.attachShader(shaderProgram, fragShader) gl.linkProgram(shaderProgram) gl.useProgram(shaderProgram) // Tell webGL to read 2 floats from the vertex array for each vertex // and store them in my vec2 shader variable I've named "coordinates" // We need to tell it that each vertex takes 24 bytes now (6 floats) var attribute = gl.getAttribLocation(shaderProgram, "coordinates") gl.vertexAttribPointer(attribute, 2, gl.FLOAT, false, 24, 0) gl.enableVertexAttribArray(attribute) // Tell webGL to read 4 floats from the vertex array for each vertex // and store them in my vec4 shader variable I've named "rgba" // Start after 8 bytes. (After the 2 floats for x and y) var attribute = gl.getAttribLocation(shaderProgram, "rgba") gl.vertexAttribPointer(attribute, 4, gl.FLOAT, false, 24, 8) gl.enableVertexAttribArray(attribute) // Tell webGL that when we set the opacity, it should be semi transparent above what was already drawn. gl.blendFunc(gl.SRC_ALPHA, gl.ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA) gl.enable(gl.BLEND) // Call onresize to set the initial canvas size. window.onresize() } window.onresize = function() { // To test we'll make the canvas be 1/3 the browser width. Try resizing your browser. var width = Math.floor(innerWidth/3) var height = 500 myCanvas.style.width = width+"px" myCanvas.style.height = height+"px" myCanvas.setAttribute("width", width) myCanvas.setAttribute("height", height) // Set the viewport size to be the whole canvas. gl.viewport(0, 0, width, height) // Set our shader variable for canvas size. It's a vec2 that holds both width and height. gl.uniform2f(gl.getUniformLocation(shaderProgram, "canvasSize"), width, height) } window.onload = function() { glSetup() gameLoop() }
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