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Emulating the GLSL flat qualifier in GLSL 120

I want to emulate flat shading in GLSL shader. I usually do this by passing normal with a flat

classifier to prevent interpolation in the fragment shader. However, flat

not available in GLSL 120.

How can I emulate it without duplicating vertex data? (This is not a premature optimization, but rather a posthumous one.)

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You cannot accurately emulate flat

without direct hardware support (presumably as stated in GLSL 1.30+ support). Previous versions only offer "nothing or nothing": either all attributes are interpolated or not. This means glShadeModel

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Go to the same normal for each vertex of the triangle.



Or see if glShadeModel(GL_FLAT)

the inline attribute is affected gl_Normal

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