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Use vec4 color with vec2 texture coordinate

I have a Fragment Shader like this:
final String fragmentShader =
"precision mediump float;" +
"uniform sampler2D u_texture;" +
"varying vec2 v_texCoord;" +
"void main() {" +
" lowp vec4 textureColor = texture2D(u_texture, v_texCoord);" +
" gl_FragColor = textureColor;" +
"}";
When drawing in GLSurfaceView, I will bind a texture into u_texture, and draw with texture coordinate v_texCoord.
But now I want to change to replace the texture with solid RGBA color. I use uniform vec4 vColor; to pass 4 floats directly as color.
I know there are a way to do it using:
"gl_FragColor = (vColor * texture2D(u_texture, v_texCoord));"
But as I said above, I don't want to bind sampler2D u_texture any more, I just want to fill it directly with solid color AND FOLLOW the texture coordinate.

Apply mask to video in OpenGL

I am a freshman with OpenGL. I try to find the solution to my problem. I have recorded a video with alpha mask. The top part of video RGB and bottom is alpha. As I understand need to change my shaders, but I don`t understand how to do this.
Vertex shader
private static final String vertexShaderCode =
"attribute vec4 vPosition;" +
"attribute vec4 vTexCoordinate;" +
"uniform mat4 textureTransform;" +
"varying vec2 v_TexCoordinate;" +
"void main() {" +
" v_TexCoordinate = (textureTransform * vTexCoordinate).xy;" +
" gl_Position = vPosition;" +
"}";
Fragment shader
private static final String fragmentShaderCode =
"#extension GL_OES_EGL_image_external : require\n" +
"precision mediump float;" +
"uniform samplerExternalOES texture;" +
"varying vec2 v_TexCoordinate;" +
"void main () {" +
" vec4 color = texture2D(texture, v_TexCoordinate);" +
" gl_FragColor = color;" +
"}";

To skip fragments you can use the discard keyword in the fragment shader.
You have to do 2 look ups to the texture. The first one in the upper half, to get the RGB color channels and the 2nd one in the lower half to get the mask from the red color channel:
vec2 c_uv = vec2(texture.x, texture.y*0.5);
vec4 color = texture2D(c_uv, v_TexCoordinate);
vec2 m_uv = vec2(texture.x, 0.5 + texture.y*0.5);
float mask = texture2D(m_uv, v_TexCoordinate).r;
The fragment shader may look like this:
#extension GL_OES_EGL_image_external : require
precision mediump float;
uniform samplerExternalOES texture;
varying vec2 v_TexCoordinate;
void main () {
vec2 m_uv = vec2(v_TexCoordinate.x, 0.5 + v_TexCoordinate.y*0.5);
float mask = texture2D(texture, m_uv).r;
if ( mask < 0.5 )
discard;
vec2 c_uv = vec2(v_TexCoordinate.x, v_TexCoordinate.y*0.5);
vec4 color = texture2D(texture, c_uv);
gl_FragColor = color;
}

Alternative for glBlitFrameBuffer() in OpenGL ES 2.0

My Android program must use glBlitFrameBuffer() function to copy FrameBuffer object. But glBlitFrameBuffer() function is only supported on OpenGL ES 3.0+ devices. I want to support OpenGL ES 2.0+ devices.
Is there any solution/alternative for this function?

Bind texture that used as collor attachment on source frame buffer
Bind destination framebuffer
Draw full screen quad (if you need stretch or offseted reading manipulate with vertex/tex coordinates)
Fetch data from bound texture in frament shader and put it to gl_FragColor

I've created a CopyShader that simply uses a shader to copy from a texture to a framebuffer.
private static final String SHADER_VERTEX = ""
+ "attribute vec4 a_Position;\n"
+ "varying highp vec2 v_TexCoordinate;\n"
+ "void main() {\n"
+ " v_TexCoordinate = a_Position.xy * 0.5 + 0.5;\n"
+ " gl_Position = a_Position;\n"
+ "}\n";
private static final String SHADER_FRAGMENT = ""
+ ""
+ "uniform sampler2D u_Texture;\n"
+ "varying highp vec2 v_TexCoordinate;\n"
+ "void main() {\n"
+ " gl_FragColor = texture2D(u_Texture, v_TexCoordinate);\n"
+ "}\n”;
Use these as your shaders, and then just set u_Texture to the texture you want to copy from, and bind the framebuffer you want to write to, and you should be set.

Texture grayscale in libgdx

Is there a way to transform a libgdx's Texture to a grayscale image? So far I had duplicate the images that I want to grayscale and I did it manually, but I think it is not the best solution because my game is using more and more images and it uses a lot of disk space.

Thought I'd share this for anyone wanting to use some copy/paste code.
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.glutils.ShaderProgram;
public class GrayscaleShader {
static String vertexShader = "attribute vec4 a_position;\n" +
"attribute vec4 a_color;\n" +
"attribute vec2 a_texCoord0;\n" +
"\n" +
"uniform mat4 u_projTrans;\n" +
"\n" +
"varying vec4 v_color;\n" +
"varying vec2 v_texCoords;\n" +
"\n" +
"void main() {\n" +
" v_color = a_color;\n" +
" v_texCoords = a_texCoord0;\n" +
" gl_Position = u_projTrans * a_position;\n" +
"}";
static String fragmentShader = "#ifdef GL_ES\n" +
" precision mediump float;\n" +
"#endif\n" +
"\n" +
"varying vec4 v_color;\n" +
"varying vec2 v_texCoords;\n" +
"uniform sampler2D u_texture;\n" +
"\n" +
"void main() {\n" +
" vec4 c = v_color * texture2D(u_texture, v_texCoords);\n" +
" float grey = (c.r + c.g + c.b) / 3.0;\n" +
" gl_FragColor = vec4(grey, grey, grey, c.a);\n" +
"}";
public static ShaderProgram grayscaleShader = new ShaderProgram(vertexShader,
fragmentShader);
}
To use it call
spriteBatch.setShader(GrayscaleShader.grayscaleShader)
And when you're done with grayscale don't forget to call
spriteBatch.setShader(null);

You should be able to write a GLSL shader that renders a texture in grayscale. This requires OpenGL 2.x, and doesn't really "transform" a texture, but just renders it to the display as grayscale.
For a detailed tutorial on shaders that includes a grayscale shader check out: https://github.com/mattdesl/lwjgl-basics/wiki/ShaderLesson3
(Libgdx doesn't really define the GLSL shader API, that's passed through from OpenGL, so most tutorials or code you find on the web for regular OpenGL should work.)
For a more direct hack, just take the Libgdx SpriteBatch shader and change the fragment shader so it averages the rgb components. (You can define your own ShaderProgram and provide it to a SpriteBatch to use.)
Change body of the fragment shader to something like this (untested, so may not compile):
+ " vec4 c = v_color * texture2D(u_texture, v_texCoords);\n" //
+ " float grey = (c.r + c.g + c.b) / 3.0;\n" //
+ " gl_FragColor = vec4(grey, grey, grey, c.a);\n" //

You can load up textures as luminance only, or luminance and alpha in GLES (see glTexImage2D). In libgdx you can specify PixFormat.Intensity (luminance) or LuminanceAlpha (luminance and alpha) when instantiating the Texture. This will generate a grayscale texture.
You still need to have two textures (one color, one grayscale) loaded up, but they can use the same source, and the luminance only uses only 1 byte per pixel in memory.
A more efficient solution is to implement a shader as suggested by P.T., but is only available from GLES 2.

Strange OpenGL ES 2.0 bug on Galaxy Note 2

This vertex shader code works on every device except for the Galaxy Note 2.
gl_Position = uMVPMatrix * vPosition;
where if I reverse the matrix multiplication to:
gl_Position = vPosition * uMVPMatrix; I can actually get things to appear.
Unfortunately, the reverse would require me to completely rewrite my transformations library.
Does anyone have any insight on what could be causing this, is this an opengl driver error with the device?
Shader code
private final String vertexShaderCode =
// This matrix member variable provides a hook to manipulate
// the coordinates of the objects that use this vertex shader
"uniform mat4 uMVPMatrix;" +
"attribute vec4 vPosition;" +
"attribute vec2 a_TexCoordinate;" +
"varying vec2 v_TexCoordinate;" +
"void main() {" +
// the matrix must be included as a modifier of gl_Position
"v_TexCoordinate = a_TexCoordinate;" +
"gl_Position = uMVPMatrix * vPosition;" +
"}";
private final String fragmentShaderCode =
"precision mediump float;" +
"uniform sampler2D u_Texture;" +
"varying vec2 v_TexCoordinate;" +
"void main() {" +
" gl_FragColor = texture2D(u_Texture, v_TexCoordinate);" +
//" gl_FragColor = vec4(v_TexCoordinate, 0, 1);" +
"}";

This is not about only a galaxy note 2 platform.
This is a mathematical question. Because both glsl/hlsl uses column major order,
It is a right way to multiply MATRIX x VECTOR
or
you can transpose the matrix using a option in
glUniformMatrix4fv( h_Uniforms[UNIFORMS_PROJECTION], 1, GL_FALSE or GL_TRUE, g_proxtrans.s);
Apparently, It can be a problem not to call this function with the option ( GL_TRUE is to use transposing ) each every frame just try .