Points are much faster than a intanced mesh of spheres. But how I draw spheres using a custom shader? My shader don’t need to calculate the shadows, neither be pixel perfect. I have reached in a shader which draw rounded points, but it doesn’t respect the light neither the zoom: uniform vec4 col…

[image] TiagoCavalcanteTrindade: but it doesn’t respect the light neither the zoom If I’m not mistaken, zoom is passed along with the camera matrix , so just applying the matrices in vertex shader should solve the issue. As for the lights - you’ll likely need to implement it manually basing o…

[image] mjurczyk: If I’m not mistaken, zoom is passed along with the camera matrix , so just applying the matrices in vertex shader should solve the issue. This didn’t worked, zooming the scene kept the size of the spheres. The following did work more or less: gl_PointSize = size * length(pr…

How to draw spheres using Points

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TiagoCavalcanteTrindade January 3, 2022, 12:48pm 4

Implemented here.

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