OpenGL 3.2 support in new nVidia linux beta driver

[ZbuffeR]

TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_SEAMLESS sounds good, however I can't believe it took so much time :-)

Can somebody explain what can be the uses for the new "multisample textures" ? Maybe to do custom averaging, especially on HDR or special gamma settings ?

[martinsm]

Deferred shading + proper multisampling.
http://www.humus.name/index.php?page=3D&ID=81

[elFarto]

Holy sweet moses, they've actually added this feature at last:

DrawElementsBaseVertex,
DrawRangeElementsBaseVertex, and DrawElementsInstancedBaseVertex
also source their indices from that buffer object, adding the basevertex offset to
the appropriate vertex index as a final step before indexing into the vertex buffer;
this does not affect the calculation of the base pointer for the index array.

Regards
elFarto

[Heiko]

I didn't expect the specs to be released today (as I thought siggraph would start a couple of days later). And because I was busy all day long, I completely missed it. Now, about 30 minutes before I have to sleep I spotted a news item about new specs!

Anyway... from what I read here on the forums: multisamples sounds cool, now I really should get started on that deferred shading engine . Geometry shader is great as well. The other features I have to read into first to comment on them.

Now bring us those drivers AMD! (soon please, soon!)

[Mars_999]

Holy sweet moses, they've actually added this feature at last:

DrawElementsBaseVertex,
DrawRangeElementsBaseVertex, and DrawElementsInstancedBaseVertex
also source their indices from that buffer object, adding the basevertex offset to
the appropriate vertex index as a final step before indexing into the vertex buffer;
this does not affect the calculation of the base pointer for the index array.

Regards
elFarto

YES!!! About F'n time!!!!!