[Public WebGL] Depth Texture Extension

[Daniel Koch]

Hi folks,

I brought the contradiction between OES_depth_texture and OES_packed_depth_stencil with respect to support for cube-depth textures to the attention of the ES Working Group.  In a survey of the vendors which implement the OES_depth_texture extension it turns out that some of them support depth cube maps and others do not.  As such, we have updated the specification for OES_depth_texture so that it only provides support for 2D depth textures.  In the future, the depth cube map functionality will be advertised under a separate extension (not yet published). 

The OES_depth_texture specification (at http://www.khronos.org/registry/gles/extensions/OES/OES_depth_texture.txt) has been updated to reflect these changes.

As such, the WEBGL_depth_texture proposal can be changed back to OES_depth_texture.

Hope this helps,
/Daniel/

On 2012-01-26, at 7:22 PM, Kenneth Russell wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Florian Bösch <pya...@> wrote:
>> Changed the draft to the prefix WEBGL, excluded cube depth maps, added the
>> IDL and defined the error in case of attempted cube depth map usage, draft
>> is attached (webgl_depth_texture.tar.bz2)
> 
> Florian,
> 
> Thanks for preparing this. It looks good. I've added it to the list of
> proposed extensions as a draft. As it moves forward, could you please
> submit changes in the form of patches?
> 
> I agree with all of the points about exposing this under a different
> name than OES_depth_texture, in order to indicate that this extension
> exposes a subset of the other's functionality.
> 
> -Ken

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                        Daniel Koch -+- dan...@
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