First Person View Model Shader

Riordan

Shader for rendering first person view models.

Similar to the method used by:

– Valve (TF2)

– Halo (Reach)

 

Shader code
// Riordan's (Kastor) FPS view shader (MIT)
shader_type spatial;
render_mode depth_draw_opaque,cull_back;

uniform float fov : hint_range(20, 120) = 40;
const float M_PI = 3.14159265359;

void vertex() {
    // recreate the camera projection matrix with our custom fov value 
    float scale = 1.0 / tan(fov * 0.5 * M_PI / 180.0); 
    PROJECTION_MATRIX[0][0] = scale / (VIEWPORT_SIZE.x / VIEWPORT_SIZE.y);
    PROJECTION_MATRIX[1][1] = scale;
}

void fragment() {
	// Scale the depth value 70%, this prevents most clipping.
	DEPTH = FRAGCOORD.z;
	DEPTH = FRAGCOORD.z * 0.7;
}
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FPS
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Glitshy
Glitshy
1 year ago

Thanks! Btw there is the function ‘radians()’ to convert from degrees to radians 😉

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tower
tower
9 months ago

Just a heads up, this shader as is results in inverted rendering in Godot 4.x, due to the screen-space y coordinate being flipped in Godot 4. Here’s some amended code for it to work in Godot 4.x

void vertex() {
    // recreate the camera projection matrix with our custom fov value 
    float scale = 1.0 / tan(fov * 0.5 * M_PI / 180.0); 
    PROJECTION_MATRIX[0][0] = -scale / (VIEWPORT_SIZE.x / -VIEWPORT_SIZE.y);
    PROJECTION_MATRIX[1][1] = -scale;
}
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Belzecue
Belzecue
9 months ago 
shader_type spatial;

uniform float fov : hint_range(20, 120) = 40;
const float M_PI = 3.14159265359;


void vertex() {
	// recreate the camera projection matrix with our custom fov value 
	float scale = 1.0 / tan(fov * 0.5 * M_PI / 180.0); 
	PROJECTION_MATRIX[0][0] = scale / (VIEWPORT_SIZE.x / VIEWPORT_SIZE.y);
	PROJECTION_MATRIX[1][1] = scale;
	POSITION = PROJECTION_MATRIX * MODELVIEW_MATRIX * vec4(VERTEX, 1.0);
	POSITION.z = 0.1;
}

This avoids setting DEPTH in frag func, which is a performance killer (see https://twitter.com/reduzio/status/1748831423690133831)

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driftware
driftware
8 months ago

this makes my model appear without textures for some reason.

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Anaxim
Anaxim
8 months ago
Reply to  driftware

And appears double right? For me the original model appears too + a second model with the shader FOV and no textures. (I cant find nowhere a proper FOV shader for Godot 4.2)

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