Hi Is there some way to clear just one stencil buffer bit? I want to do some clipping with the stencilbuffer and stencil shadow volumes at the same time. I was thinking about using one bit for the clipping, and the rest for shadows. The problem is that the clipper changes when the shadows aren''t, so I want to be able to clear the bit used for the clipper, but leaving the other bits. Is this possible somehow? I guess a fullscreen quad writing that stencil bit would do the trick, but I don''t want to waste more fillrate than I''m already doing. Appreciate tips and ideas.

You can use glStencilMask() to protect certain bits in the stencilbuffer from being overwritten. glStencilOp() also has a mask parameter that is AND´ed with the value read out of the stencilbuffer before applying the stencil function on it.

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Ah, thanks a lot. I think glStencilMask is what I was looking for (if it also masks glClear). I''ll look into it. Thanks.