This commit introduces some new framebuffer api to be able to
enable texture based depth buffers for a framebuffer (currently
only supported for offscreen framebuffers) and once allocated
to be able to retrieve the depth buffer as a texture for further
usage, say, to implement shadow mapping.
The API works as follow:
* Before the framebuffer is allocated, you can request that a depth
texture is created with
cogl_framebuffer_set_depth_texture_enabled()
* cogl_framebuffer_get_depth_texture() can then be used to grab a
CoglTexture once the framebuffer has been allocated.
This makes it possible to integrate existing GLES2 code with
applications using Cogl as the rendering api.
Currently all GLES2 usage is handled with separate GLES2 contexts to
ensure that GLES2 api usage doesn't interfere with Cogl's own use of
OpenGL[ES]. The api has been designed though so we can provide tighter
integration later.
The api would allow us to support GLES2 virtualized on top of an
OpenGL/GLX driver as well as GLES2 virtualized on the core rendering api
of Cogl itself. Virtualizing the GLES2 support on Cogl will allow us to
take advantage of Cogl debugging facilities as well as let us optimize
the cost of allocating multiple GLES2 contexts and switching between
them which can both be very expensive with many drivers.
As as a side effect of this patch Cogl can also now be used as a
portable window system binding API for GLES2 as an alternative to EGL.
Parts of this patch are based on work done by Tomeu Vizoso
<tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com> who did the first iteration of adding GLES2
API support to Cogl so that WebGL support could be added to
webkit-clutter.
This patch adds a very minimal cogl-gles2-context example that shows how
to create a gles2 context, clear the screen to a random color and also
draw a triangle with the cogl api.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 4bb6eff3dbd50d8fef7d6bdbed55c5aaa70036a8)
It could be nice to extend this as Cogl gains more APIs for
introspecting its own features but for now cogl-info just uses the new
cogl_foreach_feature() API to enumerate the available features for
a default context and prints those to the terminal.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
