Understanding how OpenGL blending works
- by yuumei
I am attempting to understand how OpenGL (ES) blending works. I am finding it difficult to understand the documentation and how the results of glBlendFunc and glBlendEquation effect the final pixel that is written.
Do the source and destination out of glBlendFunc get added together with GL_FUNC_ADD by default?
This seems wrong because "basic" blending of GL_ONE, GL_ONE would output 2,2,2,2 then (Source giving 1,1,1,1 and dest giving 1,1,1,1).
I have written the following pseudo-code, what have I got wrong?
struct colour {
float r, g, b, a;
};
colour blend_factor( GLenum factor,
colour source,
colour destination,
colour blend_colour ) {
colour colour_factor;
float i = min( source.a, 1 - destination.a );
// From http://www.khronos.org/opengles/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/glBlendFunc.xml
switch( factor ) {
case GL_ZERO: colour_factor = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }; break;
case GL_ONE: colour_factor = { 1, 1, 1, 1 }; break;
case GL_SRC_COLOR: colour_factor = source; break;
case GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_COLOR: colour_factor = { 1 - source.r, 1 - source.g, 1 - source.b, 1 - source.a }; break;
// ...
}
return colour_factor;
}
colour blend( colour & source,
colour destination,
GLenum source_factor, // from glBlendFunc
GLenum destination_factor, // from glBlendFunc
colour blend_colour, // from glBlendColor
GLenum blend_equation // from glBlendEquation
) {
colour source_colour = blend_factor( source_factor, source, destination, blend_colour );
colour destination_colour = blend_factor( destination_factor, source, destination, blend_colour );
colour output;
// From http://www.khronos.org/opengles/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/glBlendEquation.xml
switch( blend_equation ) {
case GL_FUNC_ADD: output = add( source_colour, destination_colour );
case GL_FUNC_SUBTRACT: output = sub( source_colour, destination_colour );
case GL_FUNC_REVERSE_SUBTRACT: output = sub( destination_colour, source_colour );
}
return output;
}
void do_pixel() {
colour final_colour;
// Blending
if( enable_blending ) {
final_colour = blend( current_colour_output, framebuffer[ pixel ], ... );
} else {
final_colour = current_colour_output;
}
}
Thanks!
