How to get flat normals on a cube

Question

I am using OpenGL without the deprecated features and my light calculation is done on fragment shader. So, I am doing smooth shading.

My problem, is that when I am d

Answer 1

Since a geometry shader can "see" all three vertices of a triangle at once, you can use a geometry shader to calculate the normals and send them to your fragment shader. This way, you don't have to duplicate vertices.

// Geometry Shader

#version 330 

layout(triangles) in;
layout(triangle_strip, max_vertices = 3) out;

out vec3 gNormal;

// You will need to pass your untransformed positions in from the vertex shader
in vec3 vPosition[];

uniform mat3 normalMatrix;

void main()
{
    vec3 side2 = vPosition[2] - vPosition[0];
    vec3 side0 = vPosition[1] - vPosition[0];
    vec3 facetNormal = normalize(normalMatrix * cross(side0, side2));

    gNormal = facetNormal;
    gl_Position = gl_in[0].gl_Position;
    EmitVertex();

    gNormal = facetNormal;
    gl_Position = gl_in[1].gl_Position;
    EmitVertex();

    gNormal = facetNormal;
    gl_Position = gl_in[2].gl_Position;
    EmitVertex();

    EndPrimitive();
}