Creating a GLSL Arrays of Uniforms?

Question

I would like to leave OpenGL\'s lights and make my own. I would like my shaders to allow for a variable number of lights.

Can we declare an array of uniforms in GLSL

Answer 1

Yes this is possible. You declare uniform arrays similar to how you'd do it in C, e.g.

uniform float v[10];

Then you can set their values using glUniform{1,2,3,4}{f,i}v

GLfloat v[10] = {...};
glUniform1fv(glGetUniformLocation(program, "v"), 10, v);