[Interest] Set shader on QSGFlatColorMaterial?

[Sletta Gunnar]

On Jun 9, 2013, at 12:59 AM, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Yet another scene graph related question :)
> I have to say, the documentation in the scene graph department could
> really use some more docs and advanced examples! The code leaves a lot
> of guess work and there isn't much to find since this tech is quite
> new.

I know, I'm adding stuff as time permits :)

> 
> Anyhow, I want to apply a shader to my flat material.
> QSGFlatColorMaterial has a createShader() method that return a
> QSGMaterialShader, but then what?

You set the material on the geometry node and the rest happens internally. 

> Also, how can i set multiple shaders on one material?

You don't. You can use two different geometry nodes which share the same QSGGeometry but have different materials (see the code in the example I posted in the other thread). Or you can have one QSGGeometryNode which reimplements QSGNode::preprocess() to switch the material at runtime just before it is drawn.

> since the flat
> material i'm talking about now needs two. One for antialiasing
> (playing with that [1]) and one for drawing a shadow.

This is algorithm is applying a post-filtering effect on the entire scene after it is rendered. This is not something you do with just nodes in scenegraph.

If you want to apply this for the whole window you should use QQuickWindow::beforeRendering to redirect the QQuickWindow to an FBO using QQuickWindow::setRenderTarget(). Then you can use QQuickWindow::afterRendering() to apply the FXAA filtering to that FBO as you draw it to the screen.

If you want to do this inside QML, you can also do that using a ShaderEffectsouce and ShaderEffect on the graph element. Then the ShaderEffectSource will do the rendering to the FBO and the ShaderEffect will apply the post processing.

But I do suspect that text and single-pixel horizontal/vertical lines will look rather ugly afterwards :)

cheers,
Gunnar

> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> [1] http://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/gamedev/files/sdk/11/FXAA_WhitePaper.pdf
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