civ14/Resources/Textures/Shaders/singularity.swsl

//Gravitational lensing effect. Loosely inspired by https://unionassets.com/blog/the-effect-of-the-gravitational-lens-195 to be Clyde based (based on what)

uniform sampler2D SCREEN_TEXTURE;
uniform highp vec2 renderScale;
uniform highp float maxDistance;
uniform lowp int count;

uniform highp float[5] falloffPower;
uniform highp float[5] intensity;
uniform highp vec2[5] position;
// the `5`s in the array lengths correspond to the upper limit on the simultaneous distortion sources that can be present on screen at a time. 
// If you want to change this, make sure to change all of them here, in the for loop, and, in whatever overlay assigns the uniforms
// (apparently #define is an unknown preprocessor directive)

void fragment() {

    highp vec2 finalCoords = FRAGCOORD.xy;
    highp vec2 delta;
    highp float distance;
    highp float deformation;
    
    for (int i = 0; i < 5 && i < count; i++) {
    
        delta = FRAGCOORD.xy - position[i];
	    distance = length(delta / renderScale);

        deformation = intensity[i] / pow(distance, falloffPower[i]);
        
        // ensure deformation goes to zero at max distance
        // avoids long-range single-pixel shifts that are noticeable when leaving PVS.
        
        if (distance >= maxDistance) {
            deformation = 0.0;
        } else {
            deformation *= (1.0 - pow(distance/maxDistance, 4.0));
        }
        
        if(deformation > 0.8)
            deformation = pow(deformation, 0.3);

        finalCoords -= deformation * delta;
    }
    
    COLOR = zTextureSpec(SCREEN_TEXTURE, finalCoords*SCREEN_PIXEL_SIZE );
}