HI Johannes, Oooh,, thanks for the link. Looks like texture_buffer_object is a new extension from NVidia that complete slipped beneath my radar.
As for using PBO's with GLSL, I'm not sure what gave the idea that you couldn't use the two together, GLSL use of textures and how the data is passed to the texture objects is completely orthogonal - as far as standard GLSL is concerned a texture is a texture no matter how you passed the data to it. PBO's just help with getting the data to and from the GPU efficiently. In contrast, looking at the extension spec, the texture_buffer_object looks to be like a new type of texture object that allows array like access, rather than the traditional type of look up that one uses with textures. I don't know enough about the extension to say for sure but I'd guess that it may well be compatible with PBO rather than an alternative. Robert. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Johannes Schüth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not quite sure but it seems that > http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/pixel_buffer_object.txt > > is something different than: > http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/EXT/texture_buffer_object.txt > > Although the way of binding the buffer seems initially the same. > > I just want to use float's within my shader and beeing able to exchange the > values quite fast. > > When storing floats within a sampler2d uniforms you have to reinitalise the > texture each time you change a piece of your data (texture). > > When using texture buffer objects you just have to rebind the data object > which is in my mind faster than texture reinitialization. See > http://www.jotschi.de/?p=424 for a opengl example. > > I belive pbo's can't be used within glsl? Tbo's can. Maybe thats the > difference? > > Thank you! > > Cheers, > Johannes > > ------------------ > Read this topic online here: > http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=20572#20572 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
