OSX Framebuffer Depth Attachments

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In earlier version of the simulator (on OSX ES2) the FBO depth attachments were as expected black and white, in the latest version they look like this:







Am I missing something or? What explains the reddish in both 16bits and 24bits mode?



TIA!

2

Hi ROm



That’s interesting! I will file a bug against this issue and try to reproduce it here. Can I ask what method you are using to render the depth buffers?

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	GLuint texture_id = 0;<br />
<br />
glGenTexture( &texture_id );<br />
<br />
glBindTexture( GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture_id );<br />
<br />
/* Same problem with internal format=GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT16 or GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT24<br />
and also when format and internal format is set to GL_DEPTH_STENCIL and type=GL_UNSIGNED_INT_24_8.<br />
The bug seems to affect all depth texture regardless of the type that is initialized POT and NPOT. */<br />
GLint internal_format = GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT;<br />
<br />
GLenum format = GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT,<br />
type;<br />
<br />
if( GL.extension.version == 20 && // ES 2.0 with depth texture extension<br />
GL.extension.depth_texture )<br />
{<br />
internal_format =<br />
format		= GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT;<br />
}<br />
else if( Gfx.extension.version > 20 ) // ES 3.x<br />
{<br />
internal_format = ( flags & is16bits ) ?<br />
GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT16:<br />
GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT24;<br />
<br />
format	= GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT;<br />
}<br />
<br />
type = !( flags & is16bits ) ?<br />
GL_UNSIGNED_INT :<br />
GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT;<br />
<br />
glTexImage2D( GL_TEXTURE_2D,<br />
0,<br />
internal_format,<br />
256,<br />
128,<br />
0,<br />
format,<br />
type,<br />
NULL );<br />
<br />
GLuint framebuffer_id = 0;<br />
<br />
glGenFramebuffer( &framebuffer_id );<br />
<br />
glBindFramebuffer( framebuffer_id );<br />
<br />
glFramebufferTexture2D( GL_FRAMEBUFFER,<br />
GL_DEPTH_ATTACHMENT,<br />
GL_TEXTURE_2D,<br />
texture_id,<br />
0 );
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Hi ROm



How are you rendering the resulting depth texture to the screen? In a fragment shader I believe the values are placed only in the red channel, so for a black and white image you need to do something like:





uniform sampler2D tex;

in highp vec2 texture_coords;

out highp vec4 color;



void main()

{

color = texture(tex, texture_coords);

color = vec4(color.r, color.r, color.r, 1.0);

}





At this stage I am not sure what has changed in the emulator as I can’t reproduce the black-and-white behaviour in the previous version without explicitly reading from only the red channel as above, but perhaps my test is too simple.

5

I believe that is because in OpenGL 3.x GL_LUMINANCE is removed, and they are now storing the depth value as GL_RED. I thought the emulator would still support the format/internal format in order to be compliant with GLES3.

6

Ah, I didn’t realise that this behaviour is dependent on the version of ES. In ES 2.0 the depth value should be stored in only GL_RED, whereas in ES 3.x it’s stored in RGB.



At the moment the emulator always uses the ES 2.0 behaviour, which should be easy to fix. In the meantime as a workaround you could apply your own texture swizzle to get the value into all three channels.

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If this the case GL_ALPHA, GL_LUMINANCE and GL_LUMINANCE_ALPHA will also cause problem in the simulator… In order to be more compatible with a real GLES3 context maybe add in the emulator code theses swizzle:


[ GL_ALPHA -> GL_R ]<br />
<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_R, GL_ZERO );<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_G, GL_ZERO );<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_B, GL_ZERO );<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_A, GL_RED  );<br />
<br />
[ GL_LUMINANCE -> GL_R ]<br />
<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_R, GL_RED );<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_G, GL_RED );<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_B, GL_RED );<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_A, GL_ONE );<br />
<br />
[ GL_LUMINANCE_ALPHA -> GL_RG ]<br />
<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_R, GL_RED   );<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_G, GL_RED   );<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_B, GL_RED   );<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_A, GL_GREEN );<br />
<br />
[ GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT / GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT16 / GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT24 / GL_DEPTH_STENCIL ]<br />
<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_R, GL_RED );<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_G, GL_RED );<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_B, GL_RED );<br />
GfxTexParameteri( target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_A, GL_ONE );
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