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Bind a cubemap face, then render to it. Bind another cubemap face, then render to it. There are 6 faces in total. You may think that rendering 6 times your scene will drag down performance and you are right. Don't update the cubemap often. You can update every 2 frames. Make your cubemap small, for example x We do not want to render to a color buffer.

Also called a D24S8 format. All common GPUs support this format. Around , the p-buffer extension was released which was used to do offscreen rendering. This extension is much easier to use compared to p-buffer and best of all, it is cross platform. The first call is for creating a color buffer and the second is used to create a depth buffer.

This means if you have 1 FBO that is 64x64, another which is x64, another that is x, for each of those you have to allocate a separate depth buffer if you need depth testing of course.

This obviously wastes memory. In GL 3. You can create 1 depth buffer that is x and bind them to all 3 FBOs. You can attach images from most texture types to the framebuffer object. However, framebuffers are designed for 2D rendering. So there is a need to consider how different texture types map to framebuffer images. Remember that textures are a set of images. Textures can have mipmaps, and individual mipmap levels could contain one or more images.

Because texture objects can hold multiple images, you must specify exactly which image to attach to this attachment point. Renderbuffers can also be attached to FBOs. Indeed, this is the only way to use them besides just creating the storage for them.

Once you have created a renderbuffer object and made storage for it given a size and format , you can attach it to an FBO with this function:. The parameters work mostly the same as with texture attachment. A layered image, as previously defined, is an ordered sequence of images of a particular size.

A number of different kinds of textures can be considered layered. A single mipmap level of a 1D or 2D Array Texture can be attached as a layered image, where the number of layers is the array size. A single mipmap level of a 3D texture likewise can be attached as a layered image, where the number of layers is the depth of that particular mipmap level.

Also, a mipmap level of a Cubemap Texture can be attached as a layered image. For cubemaps, you get exactly 6 layers, one for each face. And the order of the faces is the same as the order of the enumerators:. Thus it is the face within a layer, ordered as above. Each mipmap level, when can be attached as a layered image, has a specific number of layers. For 1D and 2D array textures, it is the number of layers in the texture as a whole. For 3D textures, this is the depth of that particular mipmap level.

For cubemaps, this is always exactly 6 layers: one per face. The parameters have the same meaning as above. Indeed, this function can replace many of the uses for glFramebufferTexture1D, 2D, or Layer , as long as you do not intend to attach specific layers of array textures, cubemaps, or 3D textures as regular, non-layered images. Layered images are used with Layered Rendering , which sends different primitives to different layers within the framebuffer.

It is possible to render to a framebuffer object that has no attachments. Obviously none of the fragment shader outputs will be written to anywhere in this case, but rendering can otherwise proceed as normal. This is useful for using arbitrary reading and writing of image data from shaders, rather than writing to a bound framebuffer.

However, the rasterization of primitives is always based on the area and characteristics of the bound framebuffer. These characteristics size, number of samples for multisample rendering , etc would normally be defined by the attached images. Usage: glBindRenderbuffer target renderbuffer. Usage: glCheckFramebufferStatus target. Usage: glDeleteFramebuffers n framebuffers.

Usage: glDeleteRenderbuffers n renderbuffers. Usage: glFramebufferRenderbuffer target attachment renderbuffertarget renderbuffer. Usage: glFramebufferTexture1D target attachment textarget texture level. Usage: glFramebufferTexture2D target attachment textarget texture level. Usage: glFramebufferTexture3D target attachment textarget texture level zoffset.