OpenGL 3 Updates

[Rob Barris]

Just a course correction here -

The introduction of the OpenCL / Khronos effort has no bearing or impact on the ongoing work for GL 3.0. These are independent efforts - the OpenCL effort is just getting started with the introduction of the Apple proposal into the Khronos working group, the OpenGL 3.0 effort is much farther along.

Note that each can be used alone - you can write an app that just uses GL or CL - they do different things. Though often you can think of clever ways to do the same task under both in many cases (do some computation with a GL shader, or with OpenCL code).

The GL 3.0 group is plenty busy, but details beyond just this basic confirmation that the group is still actively working on it, are not something I can/should offer here, we have rules.

[knackered]

That's good news........I think.

[Rick Yorgason]

details ... are not something I can/should offer here, we have rules.

Why did the veil of secrecy ever become a rule? Or is that bit of information also within the veil of secrecy?

[Zengar]

Thanks for the update, Rob!

[Mars_999]

Ditto, Thanks Rob. I didn't know Blizzard was on the Khronos group?

[Xmas]

Check the Khronos member lists:
http://www.khronos.org/members/promoters
http://www.khronos.org/members/contributors

[pudman]

OpenGL should get Back to the Future: "Where we're going there are no <s>roads</s>rules."

Instead they are Stuck in the Past: "...we have rules." (Rob Barris)

[knackered]

Nothing much more to say on this topic now, until siggraph'08.
Bye all.

[zed]

only 56 days away

im of the same opinion as i was last year
WRT the gaming field is opengl3.0 really necessary?
its not really bringing that much new to the party that ogl hasnt already (es), none of the game consoles have d3d10/gl3 level.

i feel just like is the case with d3d10, ogl3.0 will just be a waste of time, maybe in 2012 ( or whenever the next batch of consoles come out) it will be relevant, but until then WRT gaming it wont be

[CrazyButcher]

for gaming GLSL kinda sucks, that's what makes GL2.0 inferior to D3D9 atm imo (unless you use Cg and nvidia low-level stuff) but having no pre-compilation, fast loading of shaders, no limits/standards, no "env.parameters", is really ugly.