OpenGL ES 2.0 Framebuffer with render to texture iOS: nothing shown

Question

I'm using a Framebuffer to do post processing. Creating and drawing to the buffer (tested via glReadPixels and glCheckFramebufferStatus) is working fine. But now I want to render the this texture with a quad to the screen. But the screen remains black.

The same code (for drawing) is working fine on other platforms like android, windows, OSX.

Init Framebuffer with stencil and texture::

//framebuffer
glGenFramebuffers(1, &fb);
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, fb);

//texture
glGenTextures(1, &color);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, color);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);

//width and height: screen size
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D ,0, GL_RGBA, width, height,0,GL_RGBA,GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,NULL);
glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_TEXTURE_2D, color, 0);

//depth and stencil
glGenRenderbuffers(1, &depthStencil);
glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, depthStencil);
glRenderbufferStorage(GL_RENDERBUFFER, GL_DEPTH24_STENCIL8_OES, width, height);
glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_ATTACHMENT, GL_RENDERBUFFER, depthStencil);
glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT, GL_RENDERBUFFER, depthStencil);

Drawing content to framebuffer:

glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, fb);

glViewport(0, 0, width, height);
glBlendFuncSeparate(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
glClearColor(0.0f,0.0f,0.0f, 0.0f);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT | GL_STENCIL_BUFFER_BIT);

// ....

glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);

Drawing framebuffer content:

//unbind framebuffer
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);

std::vector<GLfloat> vertices = {0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f};
std::vector<GLfloat> texCoords = {0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f};
std::vector<GLushort> indices = {0,1,2,0,2,3};

glm::mat4 projection = glm::ortho(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, -10.0f, 10.0f);

//clear
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST, true);
glClear(GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT | GL_STENCIL_BUFFER_BIT);

//shader
glUseProgram(shader);
auto aPosition = glGetAttribLocation(shader,"aPosition");
auto aTexCoord = glGetAttribLocation(shader,"aTexCoord");
auto uTex = glGetUniformLocation(shader,"uTex");
auto uMVP = glGetUniformLocation(shader,"uMVP");

//blending
glEnable(GL_BLEND, true);
glBlendFunc(GL_ONE, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);

//binding texture
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, color);
glUniform1i(uTex, 0);

//set attributes
glUniformMatrix4fv(uMVP, 1, GL_FALSE, glm::value_ptr(projection));

glVertexAttribPointer(aPosition, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, &vertices[0]);
glEnableVertexAttribArray(aPosition);
glVertexAttribPointer(aTexCoord, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, &texCoords[0]);
glEnableVertexAttribArray(aTexCoord);

//draw
glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, 6, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, &indices[0]);

Vertex-Shader:

attribute vec4 aPosition;
attribute vec2 aTexCoord;
varying vec2 vTexCoord;
varying vec3 vPosition;
uniform mat4 uMVP;

void main()
{
    gl_Position = uMVP * aPosition;

    vTexCoord = aTexCoord;
    vPosition = gl_Position.xyz;
}

Fragment Shader:

varying vec2 vTexCoord;
varying vec3 vPosition;
uniform sampler2D uTex;

void main()
{
    vec4 texCol = texture2D(uTex, vTexCoord.xy);
    gl_FragColor = texCol;
}

One thing to watch out for, at least if you use GLKView, is that it does not render to framebuffer 0 by default. So if you call glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, 0), that will not render to your view. — Reto Koradi
I already had this before my framebuffer-content-drawing. I forgot to add this here. I edited my post. — Bastl
Your view setup must be different then. I know I got absolutely nothing displaying on iOS after binding framebuffer 0. — Reto Koradi
ok to which id do I have to bind the framebuffer? Any hint? Thanks — Bastl
I got it working with glGetIntegerv(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_BINDING, &defaultFBO); right after a [((GLKView *) self.view) bindDrawable]; call in my drawInRect. Thanks for the Hint! — Bastl

Bastl Bastl · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-10T17:14:55

0is not the default framebuffer id on iOS.

to get the default framebuffer id:

- (void)glkView:(GLKView *)view drawInRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    [((GLKView *) self.view) bindDrawable];

    GLint defaultFBO;
    glGetIntegerv(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_BINDING, &defaultFBO);

    //draw ...
}

OpenGL ES 2.0 Framebuffer with render to texture iOS: nothing shown

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