Key features

• •Discover simple and advanced techniques for leveraging modern OpenGL and GLSL
• •Learn how to use the newest features of GLSL including compute shaders, geometry, and tessellation shaders
• •Get to grips with a wide range of techniques for implementing shadows using shadow maps, shadow volumes, and more
• •Clear, easy-to-follow examples with detailed explanations and full, cross-platform source code available from GitHub
• •Compile, debug, and communicate with shader programs
• •Use new features of GLSL 4 such as subroutines, sampler objects, and uniform blocks
• •Implement core lighting and shading techniques such as diffuse and specular shading, per-fragment shading, and spotlights
• •Use textures for a variety of effects including cube maps for reflection or refraction
• •Implement screen-space techniques such as HDR, bloom, blur filters, order-independent transparency, and deferred shading
• •Utilize noise in shaders
• •Use shaders for animation
• •Make use of compute shaders for physics, animation, and general computing
• •Learn how to use new OpenGL features such as shader storage buffer objects, and image load/store