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Core Shader Modules

picking

Provides support for color-coding-based picking. In particular, supports picking a specific instance in an instanced draw call.

Color based picking lets the application draw a primitive with a color that can later be used to index this specific primitive.

Usage

In your vertex shader, your inform the picking module what object we are currently rendering by supplying a picking color, perhaps from an attribute.

attribute vec3 aPickingColor;
main() {
  picking_setPickingColor(aPickingColor);
  ...
}

In your fragment shader, you simply apply (call) the picking_filterPickingColor filter function at the very end of the shader. This will return the normal color, or the highlight color, or the picking color, as appropriate.

main() {
  gl_FragColor = ...
  gl_FragColor = picking_filterPickingColor(gl_FragColor);
}

If you would like to apply the highlight color to the currently selected element call picking_filterHighlightColor before calling picking_filterPickingColor. You can also apply other filters on the non-picking color (vertex or highlight color) by placing those instruction between these two function calls.

main() {
  gl_FragColor = picking_filterHighlightColor(color);
  //  ... apply any filters on gl_FragColor ...
  gl_FragColor = picking_filterPickingColor(gl_FragColor);
}

JavaScript Functions

getUniforms

getUniforms returns an object with key/value pairs representing the uniforms that the picking module shaders need.

getUniforms({pickingActive, ...})

  • pickingActive=false (boolean) - Renders the picking colors instead of the normal colors. Normally only used with an off-screen framebuffer during picking.
  • pickingSelectedColor=null (array|null) - The picking color of the selected (highlighted) object.
  • pickingHighlightColor= [0, 255, 255, 255] (array) - Color used to highlight the currently selected object.
  • pickingAttribute=false (boolean) - Renders a color that encodes an attribute value. Normally only used with an off-screen framebuffer during picking.

Vertex Shader Functions

picking_setPickingColor

Sets the color that will be returned by the fragment shader if color based picking is enabled. Typically set from a pickingColor uniform or a pickingColors attribute (e.g. when using instanced rendering, to identify the actual instance that was picked).

void picking_setPickingColor(vec3 pickingColor)

picking_setPickingAttribute

Sets the attribute value that needs to be picked.

void picking_setPickingAttribute(float value) void picking_setPickingAttribute(vec2 value) void picking_setPickingAttribute(vec3 value)

Fragment Shader Functions

picking_filterPickingColor

If picking active, returns the current vertex's picking color set by picking_setPickingColor, otherwise returns its argument unmodified.

vec4 picking_filterPickingColor(vec4 color)

picking_filterHighlightColor

Returns picking highlight color if the pixel belongs to currently selected model, otherwise returns its argument unmodified.

vec4 picking_filterHighlightColor(vec4 color)

Remarks

  • It is strongly recommended that picking_filterPickingColor is called last in a fragment shader, as the picking color (returned when picking is enabled) must not be modified in any way (and alpha must remain 1) or picking results will not be correct.