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| Feel free to have a look at http://www.opengl.org/registry and have a look at the GL_EXT_framebuffer_object spec.<br>
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| GL 3.0 makes FBO a core feature. http://www.opengl.org/documentation/specs/
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| 1. One of the limitations of GL_EXT_framebuffer_object is that when you bind a color buffer and then you bind a depth buffer, both must have the same
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| width and height or else the state of the FBO is considered invalid (incomplete).
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| This means if you have 1 FBO that is 64x64, another which is 512x64, another that is 1024x1024, for each of those you have to allocate a separate depth buffer (if you need depth testing of course). This obviously wastes memory.<br>
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| In GL 3.0, FBO became core and that limitation was removed.<br>
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| You can create 1 depth buffer that is 1024x1024 and bind them to all 3 FBOs. Notice that the depth buffer is large enough for even the smaller textures like 64x64.<br>
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| 2. Is it better to make 1 FBO and bind your texture to it each time you need to render to the texture?<br>
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| An FBO itself doesn't use much memory. It is a state vector object. In terms of performance, each time you bind, the driver needs to validate the state which costs CPU time. Logically, it would be better to have 1 FBO per Render_To_Texture (RTT).<br>
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| However, it has been found that you get a speed boost if your textures is the same size and you use 1 FBO for them.<br>
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| If you have 10 textures that are 64x64 and 10 textures that are 512x64, make 2 FBOs. One FBO for each group.<br>
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| 3. Can you bind the main framebuffers depth buffer as a depth buffer for your FBO?<br>
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| No.<br>
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| Does GL 3.0 allow using the main depth buffer? Unknown.<br>
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| 4. Are multisample Render_To_Texture (RTT) supported?<br>
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| Not directly. You need GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample and you would have to copy the contents of the AA-FBO to a standard RTT.<br>
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| Note that GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample also became core in GL 3.0<br>
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| 5. Talk about render to depth only. No color buffer.<br>
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| 6. Talk about render to color only.<br>
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| 7. Talk about stencil buffer.<br>
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| 8. MRT<br>
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| 9. MRT and cubemaps<br>
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