COLOR READ TYPE and FORMAT

PowerVR Insider
1

Hi everyone,





I’m working with the OpenGL ES2.0 SDK.





I’m trying to figure out what types and formats are supported for reading pixels from the FBO using the following lines:








GLint readType, readFormat;


     


glGetIntegerv(GL_IMPLEMENTATION_COLOR_READ_TYPE, &readType);


glGetIntegerv(GL_IMPLEMENTATION_COLOR_READ_FORMAT, &readFormat);








Surprisingly, both calls return the same value, readType and readFormat are 0x1401 (GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE ).





I would expect readFormat to be one of the pixel formats defined in gl2.h: {GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT, GL_ALPHA, GL_RGB, GL_RGBA, GL_LUMINANCE, GL_LUMINANCE_ALPHA}.





Any idea what causes such a behavior?





2

Hi.





Is this issue regarding PC Emulation (PVRVFrame), or is it on a specific device?

3

Hi Arron,





Thanks for the quick response








The issue is with the PC Emulator PVRVFrame.

4

Hi.





We have discovered an issue with the latest version of PVRVFrame regarding your issue.





Do you call the provided code with a bound FBO? Or is it called when no FBO/the default colour buffer is bound?Arron2011-11-28 13:01:44

5

Hi,





The problem is observed both for the system provided frame buffer and for the user generated FBO.

6

I thought it might be.


As a work around for now, you can assume that GL_IMPLEMENTATION_COLOR_READ_FORMAT returns GL_BGRA_IMG on PowerVR SGX hardware. We also found that calling GL_IMPLEMENTATION_COLOR_READ_TYPE had issues too, but in most cases this would return GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE.





I filed bug: BRN35154 on our internal tracker and you should be able to reference this ID in the release notes of our next SDK for further details.





Many thanks.