Quick Question, lets say your going to be going on Vacation and have a laptop that only supports OpenGL 2.1, but your wanting to do 3.0 and 4.0 stuff......is there a way to like "software" render 3.x-4.x (or an easy way at least)
I know Direct X lets you define Software Rendering when you set up the swap chain but does OpenGL allow that?
Software Rendering
MesaGL has some (though by no means complete) 3.0 and 4.0 support, and I think it compiles under win32. Give it a try. Don't expect it to work without some pain and source-munging, though.
I though MESA3D (mesa3d.org) supports GL 2.1 and your GLSL shaders would be 1.20, which is a bit different than shaders in GL 3.0.
There was nvemulate but I haven't touched that in years and it is for nVidia.
There was nvemulate but I haven't touched that in years and it is for nVidia.
The shader version is older, but as I mentioned, some of the other 3.x and 4.x functionality is exposed.
I suggest a fallback code to the traditional opengl pipeline. You will also need this if you release your software, opengl 3+ is too new. I personally would not even touch anything above opengl 2.1
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