Hey everybody, Some time ago, I posted the problem of a fragment shader I was working on; i could either read from an FBO-attached texture resembling the depth, or write to gl_FragColor with values indirectly received from sampling another FBO-attached texture. Doing both things in one go didn't seem possible (ex. Multiplying the depth value with the other values, then writing them to the fragment.) I managed to convert the depth into a nice 0.0 - 1.0 scale, for test/eyecandy reasons, so that part's probably ok. If you have any experience with this, please let me know. It's been bothering me for weeks, and i haven't been able to figure out a solution. Also, I would like to know how, if it's possible, to write to a depth buffer, and for the next primitive, be able to access the new depth values from a texture. I don't know if a texture attached to an FBO will just update to the actual depth buffer values that fast. Hope you can and will help, -thanks in advance!

You can't bind a texture to read into a shader and have the same texture bound as part of an FBO that you're using for output. You can write to a depth buffer just by writing to gl_Depth in your fragment shader.

It sounds like what you need to do is set up two depth buffers and use them in a ping-pong fashion using one as input and the other as output and then swapping.

Hey coordz, that sounds like a good idea.

Yeah, i thought i was doing something stupid, but i gave it a shot anyhow.
I guess the ping-pong method is the one to go with for now.

Thanks!