[CG vertex shader] Surface normal to screen angle

Questions & Answers
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I’ve been struggling to get this working. I simply wish to take a surface normal and convert it to a screen angle to be used in a post processing effect.

As an example, assuming we’re working with the highlighted surface on the sphere below, where the arrow is the normal, the 2D angle would obviously be PI/4 radians.

Sphere

Thanks for any and all help.

2

Finally found the solution:

float4 p = ComputeScreenPos(float4(v.normal, 1.0));

o.theta = (atan2(p.y, p.x) / 6.28318530717958) + 0.5;