Procedural generated textures

[Zeckurbo]

I was about to play around with some procedural textures.

I came across ogre procedural, but it seemed like a plugin to me. Is this correct?
https://ogrecave.github.io/ogre-procedu ... tures.html

Is it possible to use procedural textures in vanilla ogre 1.12 and maybe also generate some?

Thanks for helping

[sercero]

Hello,

As far as I know you cannot generate procedural textures in vanilla OGRE.

I have not used OGRE procedural but it seems to be a library not a plugin.

So you should compile it separately and use it from withing your OGRE app.

Check out the wiki page and the forum to get more information:
http://wiki.ogre3d.org/Ogre+Procedural+Geometry+Library

[Zeckurbo]

Thank you for your answer.

Do you know if vanilla Ogre can display a procedural texture in any kind of way?

[paroj]

well, ogre-procedural displays procedural textures using ogre, so it must be possible somehow..

[Kojack]

If you mean generating textures by code, it's fairly easy in Ogre 1.x.
Here's a quick hack demo of bare texture generation (been a few years since I've done this, so not sure if there's currently a better way).

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		Ogre::Entity* ent = scnMgr->createEntity("Sinbad.mesh");
		Ogre::SceneNode* node = scnMgr->getRootSceneNode()->createChildSceneNode();
		node->attachObject(ent);

		auto tex = Ogre::TextureManager::getSingleton().createManual("brick", "General", Ogre::TextureType::TEX_TYPE_2D, 256, 256, 1, Ogre::PixelFormat::PF_B8G8R8A8);
		auto hpb = tex->getBuffer();
		auto pb = hpb->lock(Ogre::Box(0, 0, 255, 255), Ogre::HardwareBuffer::LockOptions::HBL_DISCARD);
		for (int y = 0; y < 256; ++y)
		{
			for (int x = 0; x < 256; ++x)
			{
				Ogre::ColourValue c(1, 1, 1, 1);
				if (y % 8 == 0)
					c = Ogre::ColourValue(0, 0, 0, 1);
				if((x+((y/8)%2)*8)%16==0)
					c = Ogre::ColourValue(0, 0, 0, 1);
				pb.setColourAt(c, x, y, 0);
			}
		}
		hpb->unlock();

		auto mat = ent->getSubEntity(1)->getMaterial();
		mat->getTechnique(0)->getPass(0)->getTextureUnitState(0)->setTexture(tex);

This generates a procedural brick texture.



If you want something higher level like Ogre Procedural does (cells, gradients, noise, etc) that's not in Ogre, you'd have to write those effects yourself.