How to change vertex position using glsl

Question

I am trying to move object depending on camera position. Here is my vertex shader

uniform mat4 osg_ViewMatrixInverse;

void main(){
vec4 position  = gl_ProjectionMatrix * gl_ModelViewMatrix *gl_Vertex;   
vec3 camPos=osg_ViewMatrixInverse[3].xyz;

if( camPos.z >1000.0 )
  position.z = position.z+1.0;
    if( camPos.z >5000.0 )
  position.z = position.z+10.0;
if (camPos.z< 300.0 )
  position.z = position.z+300.0;
gl_Position =  position;
}

But when camera's vertical position is less than 300 or more than 1000 the model simply disappears though in second case it should be moved just by one unit. I read about inside the shader coordinates are different from a world coordinates that's why i am multiplying by Projection and ModelView matrices, to get the world coordinates. Maybe I am wrong at this point? Forgive me if it's a simple question but i couldnt find the answer.

UPDATE: camPos is translated to world coordinates, but position is not. Maybe it has to do with the fact i am using osg_ViewMatrixInverse (passed by OpenSceneGraph) to get camera position and internal gl_ProjectionMatrix and gl_ModelViewMatrix to get the vertex coordinates? How do I translate position into world coordinates?

Answer 1

The problem is that you are transforming the position into clip coordinates (by multiplying gl_Vertex by the projection and modelview matrices), then performing a world-coordinate operation on those clip coordinates, which does not give the results you want.

Simply perform your transformations before you multiply by the modelview and projection matrices.

uniform mat4 osg_ViewMatrixInverse;

void main() {
    vec4 position = gl_Vertex;   
    vec3 camPos=osg_ViewMatrixInverse[3].xyz;

    if( camPos.z >1000.0 )
        position.z = position.z+1.0;
    if( camPos.z >5000.0 )
        position.z = position.z+10.0;
    if (camPos.z< 300.0 )
        position.z = position.z+300.0;
    gl_Position = gl_ProjectionMatrix * gl_ModelViewMatrix * position;
}