[Public WebGL] IMPORTANT: Your WebGL floating point texture usage needs to be fixed!!!!

[Benoit Jacob]

Pardon my naiveness, but where, under that link, does the answer to my
question lie?
Benoit

On 13-06-05 05:20 PM, Florian Bösch wrote:
> https://github.com/pyalot/webgl-texture-float-extension-shims
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Benoit Jacob <bja...@
> <mailto:bja...@>> wrote:
>
>
>     So, we are about to implement this now in Mozilla. Just a question: in
>     the current specification, when linear filtering is used without
>     OES_texture_float_linear enabled, should the outcome be RGBA=(0,0,0,0)
>     texel values as in the case of an incomplete texture?
>
>     Benoit
>
>     On 13-05-28 06:21 PM, Gregg Tavares wrote:
>     > There's was a bug in both Chrome and Firefox which is that the
>     > OES_texture_float extension should not have allowed linear
>     filtering.
>     > That bug has been fixed in Chrome Canary.
>     >
>     > To use floating point textures with linear filtering you must
>     get both
>     > the OES_texture_float and OES_texture_float_linear extensions.
>     >
>     > I suspect this will break the majority of WebGL apps that use
>     floating
>     > point textures. Fortunately there are not 'that' many and the
>     fix is easy.
>     >
>     > For most of the existing WebGL apps using floating point
>     textures you
>     > need to do this to get the behavior you were getting previously.
>     >
>     >    ext1 = gl.getExtension("OES_texture_float");
>     >    ext2 = gl.getExtension("OES_texture_float_linear");
>     >
>     > Otherwise if OES_texture_float_linear does not exist you can set
>     your
>     > filtering to NEAREST something like
>     >
>     >    ext1 = gl.getExtension("OES_texture_float");
>     >    if (!ext1) {
>     >       alert("no support for floating point textures");
>     >       return;
>     >    }
>     >    ext2 = gl.getExtension("OES_texture_float_linear");
>     >    float_filtering = ext2 ? gl.LINEAR : gl.NEAREST;
>     >
>     >    ... when using floating point textures
>     >
>     >    gl.texImage2D(,....., gl.FLOAT, ..);
>     >    gl.texParameter(...., gl.TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, float_filtering);
>     >    gl.texParameter(...., gl.TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, float_filtering);
>     >
>     >
>     > Note: While it's sad this fix broke some apps the apps were already
>     > broken as many mobile GPUs support OES_texture_float but not
>     > OES_texture_float_linear. This fix makes it possible for an app to
>     > tell if a device supports OES_texture_float_linear and take
>     > appropriate steps.
>     >
>     >
>
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