Linearize Depth Buffer

beginners
#1

Hi,

I am drawing the depth buffer from a a fbo where I draw some cubes, and I get a white image with some light gray areas where the cubes where very close. After some research I found that I have to make the depth buffer linear according to the near and far field of my camera. Any ideas how to do it?

Thanks

#2

Finally I managed to make the depth buffer linear using shaders. Here is the shaders’ code for anyone that might be interested.

void main(void)
{
    gl_FrontColor = gl_Color;
    gl_Position = ftransform();
    gl_TexCoord[0] = gl_MultiTexCoord0;
}

and the frag:

#version 110
#extension GL_ARB_texture_rectangle : enable


//Shader for visualizing a depth texture as a focal distance map
//paired with dofblur for debugging purposes

uniform sampler2DRect depthTex;
uniform float focalDistance;
uniform float focalRange;

float LinearizeDepth(float zoverw){
    float n = 1.0; // camera z near
    float f = 2000.0; // camera z far
    return (2.0 * n) / (f + n - zoverw * (f - n));
}

void main()
{
    float depth = LinearizeDepth( texture2DRect(depthTex, gl_TexCoord[0].st).r ) * 20000.;
    gl_FragColor = vec4(min( abs(depth  - focalDistance) / focalRange, 1.0) );
    gl_FragColor.a = 1.0;
}