Re: [Public WebGL] writing to OES_texture

Hi Mo,

I believe this falls out of section 4.4.5 Framebuffer Completeness.

"The internal formats of the attached images can affect the completeness of the framebuffer, so it is useful to first define the relationship between the internal format of an image and the attachment points to which it can be attached. Image internal formats are summarized in table 4.5. Color-renderable formats contain red, green, blue, and possibly alpha components; depth-renderable formats contain depth components; and stencil-renderable formats contain stencil components.
Formats not listed in table 4.5, including compressed internal formats. are not color-, depth-, or stencil-renderable, no matter which components they contain."

Table 4.5 lists DEPTH_COMPONENT16, RGBA4, RGB5_A1, RGB565, and STENCIL_INDEX8.

Even though the table legend says "renderbuffer image formats" the rest of the text leads me to believe this also applies to textures. Nowhere are LUMINANCE, LUMINANCE_ALPHA or ALPHA-only textures defined as color(?)-renderable.

Theoretically any extension which adds new renderbuffer or texture formats should augment this table and text if it wishes to define the formats to be renderable but many of the OES extensions are IMHO underspecified in this respect. (for example OES_rgb8_rgba8 -- what is the point in adding RGB8_OES and RGBA8_OES renderbuffers if you can't render to them?!)

Hope this helps,

Daniel

On 2010-12-17, at 1:25 PM, Mo, Zhenyao wrote:

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Daniel Koch <daniel@transgaming.com> wrote:
OES_texture_float doesn't actually define the ability to render to floating
point textures. We do happen to support that in ANGLE, but it is not a
portable behaviour (and will almost certainly not work on true ES devices).
LUMINANCE_ALPHA textures are also not renderable in ES 2.0 (and are not in
ANGLE). May desktop GL implementations made them renderable before RG
textures were introduced, but that was more of a silent extension, not a
requirement. You should be able to check this via a framebuffer
completeness test.

I scanned through ES 2.0 spec and found no text discussing
color-renderable formats for textures. I could only find such
information for renderbuffers.

Could anyone point to me the section?

Thanks a lot!

Mo

Hope this helps,
Daniel

On 2010-12-16, at 7:51 AM, Evgeny Demidov wrote:

one can write into the RGBA OES_texture_float (good news)
http://www.ibiblio.org/e-notes/webgl/barkley_ext.html
(OpenGL/ANGLE score is about 170/60)
but I failed to write into the LUMINANCE_ALPHA texture (is it RG in OpenGL
3.3 ?)
http://www.ibiblio.org/e-notes/webgl/barkley_e2.html
I tried both
  out vec2 FragColor;
...
  FragColor = vec2(unew, vnew );
and
  gl_FragColor = vec4(unew, unew, unew, vnew );
Couldn't Kenneth Russell look the last script (near the commented lines)?

Evgeny

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Re: [Public WebGL] writing to OES_texture_float