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  I am to try out depth of field and I am first trying to get depth data with GLSL. I am able to generate DEPTH map but there are some glitches I don't understand why?
  above images shows a long box and it just shows hollow from front face.
  this is processing code
  PShader depth; PGraphics pg; void setup() { size(600,600,P3D); depth = loadShader("frag.glsl","vert.glsl") ; pg= createGraphics(600,600,P3D); depth.set("far",100.0); } float t=0; void draw() { t+=0.001; pg.hint(ENABLE_DEPTH_TEST); pg.shader(depth); pg.beginDraw(); pg.noStroke(); pg.background(0); pg.translate(width/2+50,height/2,0); pg.rotateY(2*PI-PI*t/7); pg.box(20,20,1000); // pg.translate(-200,-100,0); pg.box(40,40,100); pg.endDraw(); image(pg,0,0); }
  here is fragment shader:
  #ifdef GL_ES precision mediump float; precision mediump int; #endif varying vec4 vertColor; varying vec3 vertNormal; varying vec3 vertLightDir; varying float dist; void main() { gl_FragColor = vec4(vec3(1.0,1.0,1.0)*1/clamp(dist,0,1000), 1.0 ); }
  following is vertex shader:
  uniform mat4 transform; uniform mat3 normalMatrix; uniform vec3 lightNormal; attribute vec4 position; attribute vec4 color; attribute vec3 normal; uniform vec3 cameraPosition; uniform float far; varying vec4 vertColor; varying vec3 vertNormal; varying vec3 vertLightDir; varying float dist; void main() { vertNormal = normal; dist = (distance(cameraPosition,position.xyz)/far); gl_Position = transform *position; }
  what could be the issue? well I am just new to GLSL so please sorry for any simple mistake. Also if there is any simple way to do nice DoF let me know.
  Answers
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  Hey sorry that was the first time. Also I don't think I need to use this pg.hint(ENABLE_DEPTH_TEST);
  @trailbalzer47 unfortunately i'm out of time to debug your scetch, i can help you any further, that post a forum link i found. here is the code Last week I made it work but did not save it I wounder how it worked then. but it did not gave any good result for blur part. burling was not good.
  @trailbalzer47 Yes Camera is pointing -Z towards the viewer
  to fix the above scetch you need to add as third parameter the negative camera direction
  pg.translate(width/2+50,height/2,0, -100)
  or fix it in the shader.
  no backfaceculling per default
  Here you did it right:
  I understood it was my mistake simple explanation is that box was too big in Z direction and thus camera went inside the box as it rotated so after reducing size of box the problem is solved its nothing to do with the shader is the camera position intersecting the shape. and thanks to @nabr and @koogs
  Ah, yes,
  the second box is set to 1000, it looks like their is a face missing, i thought, it has something to do with backfaceculling .
  Great!