OpenGL ES 2 for Android

Exercises

We covered quite a few new features in this chapter, so let’s take the time to explore them in more detail:

• Read up about glCullFace and glFrontFace. Then, as an experiment, add a call to glFrontFace(GL_CW) in onSurfaceCreated.

• Change the terrain fragment shader to render the terrain with the fragment depth as the color (Hint: You can use gl_FragCoord.z to get the current depth value in a range from 0 to 1; don’t forget that this value is nonlinear).

• Add a texture to the height map. To make things more interesting, blend between two different textures, depending on the height.

• Once you have that working, add a flat plane of water to cover up the bottom.

• Change the height map implementation to use triangle strips and to degenerate triangles ...