Blending and clamping

[Kopelrativ]

According to glBlendFunc all scale factors have the range [0,1] and according to glBlendEquation all values are clamped to [0,1].

I can understand this if the image format is GL_RGBA8, but not if it is a floating point format. Have I understood this correctly?

If so, what is the reason?

It makes it harder if you want to do HDR imaging.

[Alfonse Reinheart]

Don't blame me; that's how the man pages have always described it.

Those descriptions are inaccurate. The clamping behavior only exists when writing to non-float-point or non-integral targets. And division by whatever also only matters when dealing with fixed-function.

In short, they do what you think they do, not what they say. Feel free to update the pages; that's why they're on the Wiki.

[Kopelrativ]

Thanks for the confirmation, I updated the Wiki.