Draw to offscreen renderbuffer in OpenGL ES (iPhone)
- by David Ensminger
I'm trying to create an offscreen render buffer in OpenGL ES on the iPhone. I've created the buffer like this:
glGenFramebuffersOES(1, &offscreenFramebuffer);
glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, offscreenFramebuffer);
glGenRenderbuffersOES(1, &offscreenRenderbuffer);
glBindRenderbufferOES(GL_RENDERBUFFER_OES, offscreenRenderbuffer);
glFramebufferRenderbufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0_OES, GL_RENDERBUFFER_OES, offscreenRenderbuffer);
But I'm confused on how to render the storage. Apple's documentation says to use the EAGLContext renderBufferStorage:fromDrawable: method, but this seems to only work for one render buffer (the main one being displayed). If I use the normal OpenGL function glRenderBufferStorageOES, then I can't seem to get it to display. Here's the code:
// this is in the initialization section:
glRenderbufferStorageOES(GL_RENDERBUFFER_OES, GL_RGB8_OES, backingWidth, backingHeight);
// and this is when I'm trying to draw to it and display it:
glBindFramebufferOES(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_OES, offscreenFramebuffer);
GLfloat vc[] = {
0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f,
10.0f, 10.0f, 10.0f,
0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f,
-10.0f, -10.0f, -10.0f,
};
glLoadIdentity();
glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, 0, vc);
glDrawArrays(GL_LINES, 0, 4);
glDisableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
glBindRenderbufferOES(GL_RENDERBUFFER_OES, offscreenRenderbuffer);
[context presentRenderbuffer:GL_RENDERBUFFER_OES];
Doing it this way, nothing is displayed on the screen. However, if I switch out the references to "offscreen...Buffer" to the buffers that were created with the renderBufferStorage method, it works fine.
Any suggestions?
