Example
The vertex shader only accepts the texture coordinates as a vertex attribute and forwards the coordinates to the fragment shader. By default, it will also guarantee that the fragment will receive the properly interpolated coordinate based on its position in a triangle:
layout (location = 0) in vec3 position;
layout (location = 1) in vec2 texCoordIn;
out vec2 texCoordOut;
void main()
{
gl_Position = vec4(position, 1.0f);
texCoordOut = texCoordIn;
}
The fragment shader then accepts the texCoord output variable as an input variable. You can then add a texture to the fragment shader by declaring a uniform sampler2D. To sample a fragment of the texture we use a built-in function texture which has two parameters. First is the texture we want to sample from and the second is the coordinate of this texture:
in vec2 texCoordOut;
out vec4 color;
uniform sampler2D image;
void main()
{
color = texture(image, texCoordOut);
}
Note that image isn't the direct texture id here. It's the id of the texture unit that will be sampled. In turn, textures aren't bound to programs directly; they are bound to texture units. This is achieved by first making the texture unit active with glActiveTexture, and then calling glBindTexture will affect this particular texture unit. However, since the default texture unit is texture unit 0, programs using one texture can be made simpler omitting this call.
