Hi,
I’m looking for a way to retrieve unaltered floating point values (preferably via the GL_RGBA32F_ARB format) from a pixel shader. I’m lead to believe I can do this by writing said values out of the shader as a gl_FragColor( … ), rendering to a FBO, calling glClampColorARB( … ) to turn of clamping and using glReadPixels( … ) to grab the data. However I just can’t seem to get this to work, so my questions are as follows:
Is this actually possible?
and
If so what steps do I need to take in order to do this?
Thanks
Yes, it is possible. A large amount of my code wouldn’t function at all if it weren’t.
There isn’t much more to it than what you’ve already said, except that I’ve never seen glClampColorARB() have any effect on NVIDIA drivers. All I do is upload textures with GL_RGBA32F_ARB as the internal format parameter (not format; that remains GL_RGBA) and read back with GL_RGBA / GL_FLOAT as glReadPixels parameters.
That’s weird glClampColorARB aside that’s pretty much what I’m doing and still it’s not working.
Does anybody know of / have a little example of how this works that I could take a look at and check my code against?
Thanks in advance
Here’s something I threw together out of a bare bones test case I just made. The code’s not pretty, but it works, and it gets the concept across.
fbo_float.zip
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, that’s just solved a major headache