.TH "Shader Classes" 3 "Sat Oct 12 2013" "Version 4.0.0a" "Coin" \" -*- nroff -*-
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Shader Classes \- 
.SS "Classes"

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.RI "class \fBSoVertexAttributeBinding\fP"
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.RI "\fIThe \fBSoVertexAttributeBinding\fP class is a node for setting up how vertex attributes are mapped to shapes\&. \fP"
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.RI "class \fBSoVertexAttribute\fP"
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.RI "\fIA generic node for providing GL vertex attributes of various types\&. \fP"
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.RI "class \fBSoShaderObject\fP"
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.RI "class \fBSoShaderProgram\fP"
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.RI "\fIThe \fBSoShaderProgram\fP class is used to specify a set of vertex/geometry/fragment objects\&. \fP"
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.SH "Detailed Description"
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Coin-2\&.5 added support for Shaders\&. Shaders replace the fixed function vertex and fragment processing in OpenGL by letting the user define the processing that takes place at key points in the OpenGL pipeline\&. Vertex shaders handle the operations that occur on each vertex, while fragment shaders handle the operations that occur on each pixel\&. The \fBSoShaderProgram\fP node in Coin provides a convenient way of specifying the code for vertex and fragment shaders\&.
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Coin-3\&.0 expanded upon the shader support by adding support for OpenGL Vertex Attributes\&. When using shaders, programmers are no longer limited to the set of attributes that OpenGL defines (glColor, glNormal, glTexCoord etc\&.) You can now define your own per-vertex data and pass them to the shaders using the \fBSoVertexAttribute\fP node\&. 
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Generated automatically by Doxygen for Coin from the source code\&.