GLX render thread initialization

Original Post

Sep 12, 2009 at 1:47 PM

From reading around I have figured out that to do rendering in a separate thread to game logic you create a window and then in the render thread create the context, at least thats how it works with wgl. Is it the same with glx? Do I pass the display, visual and window to the render thread from the window creation and call glXCreateContext/glXMakeCurrent from the render thread? cheers.

Bruce Wheaton

Sep 12, 2009 at 8:25 PM

You probably want to create the X DisplayConnection and thus almost everything else directly on the thread.

Bruce

JPulham

Sep 13, 2009 at 12:18 PM

Thanks for the reply, but I understood that the keyboard & mouse would be handled in the game logic thread, therefore requiring a window and thus a display connection, while OpenGL render calls were made from a separate thread?
Have I missed the point here? Maybe I wasn't clear enough...

Topic Locked