i’m using a multipass algorithm, so my 1st pass is depth only. i’d like to create a depth texture each frame as i need it in various shaders. so far i’m simply copying the rendered scene to a texture using glCopyTexImage2D. screen resolution is 1280x1024, texture resoltion is 1024x1024, so there’s a bit missing on the right side of the texture i could resize the viewport and render again, but i’d like to do it in one pass.
do fbo guarantee to support non-power-of-two dimensions? is there a way to render the scene to a fbo without having to render it twice? i. e. can i render to the screen and to a fbo simultaneously?
you could always just render a quad to the framebuffer with your fbo attached colorbuffer, but as seen in the other thread, rendering directly to framebuffer is quickest.
you could copytex to a rectangle texture instead (pretty widely supported).
Yes, the rectangular texture variant is most appropriate, I hope.
The main difference are that RECT textures don’t have mip-mapping, they can be used only with GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE, and addressing is not [0…1], but [0…width, 0…height].
Usage is just like 2D: glCopyTexSubImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, width, height);
jep this works fine, thank you!
one general question: when am i supposed to use glCopyTexImage2D and when glCopyTexSubImage2D? is it that i have to use glCopyTexImage2D initially and then i can use glCopyTexSubImage2D? i tried that, but performance was the same as when i used glCopyTexImage2D only…?
i could resize the viewport and render again, but i’d like to do it in one pass.