[ES 2.0] Useful Extensions
Posted Saturday, 17 October, 2009 - 10:55 by Inertia| Project: | The Open Toolkit library |
| Version: | all versions |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | minor |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | open |
Description
I've been digging through the ES Extension Registry and found 2 candidates that deserve some discussion whether to add them to the bindings:
http://www.khronos.org/registry/gles/extensions/OES/OES_texture_float.tx...
http://www.khronos.org/registry/gles/extensions/OES/OES_vertex_half_floa...
Both extensions simply add HALF_FLOAT_OES 0x8D61 to ES.Tex(Sub)Image2D's and ES.VertexAttribPointer's type parameter. The half-precision floating-point type used is identical to our implementation of Half and because embedded devices have very limited storage capacities this should prove very useful.