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<!-- Include A-Frame latest master distribution, via RawGit. -->
<!-- Really should be in <head>; in CodePen body for simple viewing. -->
<script src="https://rawgit.com/aframevr/aframe/master/dist/aframe-master.min.js"></script>
<!-- Components and shaders go after A-Frame, but before the scene declaration. -->
<script>
AFRAME.registerShader('my-custom', {
// The schema declares any parameters for the shader.
schema: {
// Where relevant, it is customary to support color.
// The A-Frame schema uses `type:'color'`, so it will parse string values like 'white' or 'red.
// `is:'uniform'` tells A-Frame this should appear as uniform value in the shader(s).
color: {type:'color', is:'uniform', default:'red'},
// It is customary to support opacity, for fading in and out.
opacity: {type:'number', is:'uniform', default:1.0}
},
// Setting raw to true uses THREE.RawShaderMaterial instead of ShaderMaterial,
// so your shader strings are used as-is, for advanced shader usage.
// Here, we want the usual prefixes with GLSL constants etc.,
// so we set it to false.
// (Which is also the default, so we could have omitted it).
raw: false,
// Here, we're going to use the default vertex shader by omitting vertexShader.
// But note that if your fragment shader cares about texture coordinates,
// the vertex shader should set varying values to use in the fragment shader.
// Since almost every WebVR-capable browser supports ES6,
// define our fragment shader as a multi-line string.
fragmentShader:
`
// Use medium precision.
precision mediump float;
// This receives the color value from the schema, which becomes a vec3 in the shader.
uniform vec3 color;
// This receives the opacity value from the schema, which becomes a number.
uniform float opacity;
// This is the shader program.
// A fragment shader can set the color via gl_FragColor,
// or decline to draw anything via discard.
void main () {
// Note that this shader doesn't use texture coordinates.
// Set the RGB portion to our color,
// and the alpha portion to our opacity.
gl_FragColor = vec4(color, opacity);
}
`
});
</script>
<!-- Declaration of the A-Frame scene. -->
<a-scene>
<!-- Black skybox at effectively infinite distance. -->
<!-- a-box is used instead of a-sky because it requires less processing than the sphere that a-sky generates. -->
<!-- Z scale is inverted so that the inside surface gets the color. -->
<a-box width="10000" height="10000" depth="-10000" color="black">
<!-- Inside the black skybox, a box using our shader, 2 meters ahead, not fully opaque, and blue. -->
<a-box material="shader:my-custom; color:blue; opacity:0.7; transparent:true" position="0 0 -2"></a-box>
<!-- Inside the black skybox, a box behind the previous one, 3 meters ahead. -->
<a-box position="0 0 -3"></a-box>
</a-box>
</a-scene>
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