I'm trying to follow the suggestion in Apple's OpenGL ES Programming Guide section on instanced drawing: Use Instanced Drawing to Minimize Draw Calls. I have started with the example project that XCode generates for a Game app with OpenGL and Swift and converted it to OpenGL ES 3.0, adding some instanced drawing to duplicate the cube.
This works fine when I use the gl_InstanceID technique and simply generate an offset from that. But when I try to use the 'instanced arrays' technique to pass data in via a buffer I am not seeing any results.
My updated vertex shader looks like this:
#version 300 es
in vec4 position;
in vec3 normal;
layout(location = 5) in vec2 instOffset;
out lowp vec4 colorVarying;
uniform mat4 modelViewProjectionMatrix;
uniform mat3 normalMatrix;
void main()
{
vec3 eyeNormal = normalize(normalMatrix * normal);
vec3 lightPosition = vec3(0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
vec4 diffuseColor = vec4(0.4, 0.4, 1.0, 1.0);
float nDotVP = max(0.0, dot(eyeNormal, normalize(lightPosition)));
colorVarying = diffuseColor * nDotVP;
// gl_Position = modelViewProjectionMatrix * position + vec4( float(gl_InstanceID)*1.5, float(gl_InstanceID)*1.5, 1.0,1.0);
gl_Position = modelViewProjectionMatrix * position + vec4(instOffset, 1.0, 1.0);
}
and in my setupGL() method I have added the following:
//glGenVertexArraysOES(1, &instArray) // EDIT: WRONG
//glBindVertexArrayOES(instArray) // EDIT: WRONG
let kMyInstanceDataAttrib = 5
glGenBuffers(1, &instBuffer)
glBindBuffer(GLenum(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER), instBuffer)
glBufferData(GLenum(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER), GLsizeiptr(sizeof(GLfloat) * instData.count), &instData, GLenum(GL_STATIC_DRAW))
glEnableVertexAttribArray(GLuint(kMyInstanceDataAttrib))
glVertexAttribPointer(GLuint(kMyInstanceDataAttrib), 2, GLenum(GL_FLOAT), GLboolean(GL_FALSE), 0/*or 8?*/, BUFFER_OFFSET(0))
glVertexAttribDivisor(GLuint(kMyInstanceDataAttrib), 1);
along with some simple instance offset data:
var instData: [GLfloat] = [
1.5, 1.5,
2.5, 2.5,
3.5, 3.5,
]
I am drawing the same way with the above as with the instance id technique:
glDrawArraysInstanced(GLenum(GL_TRIANGLES), 0, 36, 3)
But it seems to have no effect. I just get the single cube and it doesn't even seem to fail if I remove the buffer setup, so I suspect my setup is missing something.
EDIT: Fixed the code by removing two bogus lines from init.
