Binding to a different depth buffer.

[BentFX]

I've gotta keep this short. (the forum code hates me cause I'm new)

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I've got an offscreen render buffer I use for picking. How do I sometimes attach it to the existing scene depth buffer, and sometimes not.

I'd show you what I've got so far but I think that's what freaked out the forum code earlier. My compiler acts the same way.

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[BentFX]

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I got it figured out. At least according to a post on another site that I read, you can't rebind the frame buffer to a different depth buffer but you can blit between the two depth buffers. Like so...

    glBindFramebuffer(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER, my_FBO);
    glBindFramebuffer(GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);
    glBlitFramebuffer(0, 0, m_CanvasWidth, m_CanvasHeight,
                            0, 0, m_CanvasWidth, m_CanvasHeight,
                            GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT, GL_NEAREST);
    glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, my_FBO);

It's working for me. I put that in "myCanvas->keepDepth();" and just call it when I need it.

[tonyo_au]

[quote]you can't rebind the frame buffer to a different depth bufferp/quote] AFAIK this is not true. I certainly bind a depth buffer to different FBO - but I unbind the first FBO before I bind the next.

[Alfonse Reinheart]

[quote]

you can't rebind the frame buffer to a different depth bufferp/quote] AFAIK this is not true. I certainly bind a depth buffer to different FBO - but I unbind the first FBO before I bind the next.

He probably missed putting "default" in front of "frame buffer".

[BentFX]

Thanks for the reply guys.

This is how I create my selection buffer. How would I change that to create the buffer bound to the default depth buffer? If I don't want the existing depth information I can clear it just as easily, as making a call to have it preserved. Using the existing depth buffer would be more memory efficient, and I don't know, but it seems that clearing it would be at least as fast as blitting.

void wxBFXCanvas::setSelectionBuffer()
{
    if(m_SBO != 0) // delete current selection buffer if it exists
    {
        glDeleteFramebuffers(1, &m_SBO);
        glDeleteRenderbuffers(1, &m_SBODepth);
        glDeleteRenderbuffers(1, &m_SBOPixels);
        m_SBO = 0;
    }
    // create depth renderbuffer
    glGenRenderbuffers(1, &m_SBODepth);
    glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, m_SBODepth);
    glRenderbufferStorage(GL_RENDERBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT, m_CanvasWidth, m_CanvasHeight);
    glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_ATTACHMENT, GL_RENDERBUFFER, m_SBODepth);
    glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, 0);
    // create pixel renderbuffer
    glGenRenderbuffers(1, &m_SBOPixels);
    glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, m_SBOPixels);
    glRenderbufferStorage(GL_RENDERBUFFER, GL_RGB, m_CanvasWidth, m_CanvasHeight);
    glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_RENDERBUFFER, m_SBOPixels);
    glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, 0);
    // create framebuffer object
    glGenFramebuffers(1, &m_SBO);
    glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, m_SBO);
    glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_RENDERBUFFER, m_SBOPixels);
    glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_ATTACHMENT, GL_RENDERBUFFER, m_SBODepth);
    // Check that things seem to have worked so far
    GLenum status = glCheckFramebufferStatus(GL_FRAMEBUFFER);
    if (status != GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE)
    {
        wxMessageBox(_T("Selection buffer creation failed"),_T("Oops, Bad Cr*p...."));
        glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);
        m_SBODirty = false;
        m_SBO = 0;
        return;
    }
    glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);
    m_SBODirty = false;
    Refresh(false); // force a screen refresh
}

Notice the title of the error message box. I think that's the bit that was causing the forum code to choke. My Bad!

[tonyo_au]

I am attaching texture buffers rather that render buffers to the frame buffer when I swap depth buffers