I've created a basic orthographic shader that displays sprites from textures. It works great.
I've added a "zoom" factor to it to allow the sprite to scale to become larger or smaller. Assuming that the texture is anchored with its origin in the "lower left", what it does is shrink towards that origin point, or expand from it towards the upper right. What I actually want is to shrink or expand "in place" to stay centered.
So, one way of achieving that would be to figure out how many pixels I'll shrink or expand, and compensate. I'm not quite sure how I'd do that, and I also know that's not the best way. I fooled with order of my translates and scales, thinking I can scale first and then place, but I just get various bad results. I can't wrap my head around a way to solve the issue.
Here's my shader:
// Set up orthographic projection (960 x 640)
mat4 projectionMatrix = mat4( 2.0/960.0, 0.0, 0.0, -1.0,
0.0, 2.0/640.0, 0.0, -1.0,
0.0, 0.0, -1.0, 0.0,
0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
void main()
{
// Set position
gl_Position = a_position;
// Translate by the uniforms for offsetting
gl_Position.x += translateX;
gl_Position.y += translateY;
// Apply our (pre-computed) zoom factor to the X and Y of our matrix
projectionMatrix[0][0] *= zoomFactorX;
projectionMatrix[1][1] *= zoomFactorY;
// Translate
gl_Position *= projectionMatrix;
// Pass right along to the frag shader
v_texCoord = a_texCoord;
}