Hello,
I’ve been wondering how to combine these three techniques using OpenGL 3.2. Instancing and batching is not that hard, assuming one wants deferred shading, which factors out lighting. Then, all one needs to do is to render N instances M times (once for each material). By using texture layers etc. M can be decreased.
But conditional rendering? In OpenGL 3.2, I start and end it with glBegin/EndConditionalRendering. I would have to call this once per object. This already doesn’t fit with instancing, which would make little sense if one renders each object explicitely. And batching? I would have to call these two functions N*M times…
Of course it would be awesome if there is a connection between conditional rendering and instancing in OpenGL 3.2, but I don’t see any in the spec.
Any ideas?