[SOLVED] timer uniform in custom post processing shader

[hg82]

Hey everybody,

I went out to add some nice post processing shaders to GzDoom. Right now I'm working on a vignette shader and I try to animate the vignette.
As far as I understand the wiki I should be able to use a timer uniform through just defining it at the top of my shader.

But the mentioned

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uniform float timer;

doesn't do anything. It seams to always be 0...

Is the timer not working for post processing shaders or am I missing something? Could someone please point me in the right direction?
I spent hours to get this working without results...

Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers
HG

[Pixel Eater]

In your Zscript file you'll need to add the line:

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Shader.SetUniform1f( p, "Shader Name", "timer", ( gametic + e.FracTic ) * 1 / 35 ) ;

I'm not good with terminology but it should go in the "event block?"

[hg82]

Thanks Pixel Eater!

I could figure it out.

You need to have something like this in your ZSCRIPT lump:

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class ShaderTimer : EventHandler
{
	override void RenderOverlay(RenderEvent e)
	{
		// thanks to Pixel Eater from the ZDoom Forums!!!
		float timer = (gametic +  e.FracTic) * 1 / 35;
		// set timer uniforms for the shaders
		Shader.SetUniform1f(players[consoleplayer], "PostVignette", "timer", timer);
		Shader.SetUniform1f(players[consoleplayer], "PostNoise", "timer", timer);
	}
}

Then you need to add your event handler class in the "gameinfo" block inside your "mapinfo" lump

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gameinfo
{
	AddEventHandlers = "ShaderTimer"
}

Again: Thank you very much... Couldn't have figured it out without your help.

[Pixel Eater]

I'm glad it worked despite my shoddy explanation