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GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT Question

Started by MARS_999 Mar 15, 2005 at 3:08 AM 1 reply 1k views

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MARS_999

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MARS_999

Mar 15, 2005 at 3:08 AM

With GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT being used with this function. glCopyTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT, 0, 0, WATER_TEXTURE_SIZE, WATER_TEXTURE_SIZE, 0); I have a rgb texture setup and was wondering should I be using a 8bit greyscale texture instead? Or will GL just map the same value to all three channels or just Red channel? I am not sure how this works. Thanks for any help in clearing this up.

Optus

Mar 15, 2005 at 2:02 PM

I'm pretty sure you'd only want to copy the depth component to a depth texture, not an RGB.

Master Tonberry

Mar 16, 2005 at 1:29 AM

Yes the internal format should be GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT but the external format can also be a GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT (for example a 24 bit depth component).

This is how I do to create shadow maps:
glTexImage2D( GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT24, m_size, m_size,
0, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, NULL );

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