Hello !
I've read many post on this forum
about the bad perfs of glReadPixel,
more generally about all the transfer
to video memory.
What about glTexImage2D ? Is this function
as slow as glReadPixel ? More generally,
is it possible to generate new texture
at each frame at a reasonnable frequency ?
Are there extensions like (sthg)_range
that could speed up the thing ? Has
anyone already done such thing ?
Thx for all your advices and comments
escondida
About glReadPixels : it is slow because it retrieves data from the graphics card, which is not designed to send data back to the host; it is designed to receive and process data.
About dynamic textures : use glTexSubImage instead of glTexImage. You won't achieve very high performance if you use large dynamic textures, though.
At the moment, there is no multi-vendor extension for efficient dynamic texturing. For NVIDIA chips, there is NV_pixel_data_range.
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