Ok Dudes,

I've searched for an hour and still I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. I want to make a simple 16 bit float 3D texture that is not clamped and I'm trying to accomplish this via this call:


glTexImage3D(GL_TEXTURE_3D, 0, GL_LUMINANCE16F_ARB,
dims[0],
dims[1],
dims[2], 0,
GL_LUMINANCE, GL_SHORT, volumeData);


The code runs fine, and yet my values are still clamped to 0-1. I must be missing something, or perhaps one of the types are incorrect, but I'm at a loss. Is there perhaps some call to an enable function that must preceed the usage of non-clamped textures?

As far as I can tell it should work with 3D textures just fine...

Gazoo

Let it be known! I've spent a few hours and come to the following conclusion. Someone please correct me if I am wrong:

OpenGL clamps values IF they're provided in the GL_SHORT format (and perhaps other non-float formats). It does not matter if you want them represented at 16 bit float or 32 bit float internally. They WILL be clamped between 0 and 1.


In other words, to upload actual NON-clamped data, stick to this upload code:


glTexImage3D(GL_TEXTURE_3D, 0, GL_LUMINANCE16F_ARB, tWidth, tHeight, tDepth, 0, GL_LUMINANCE, GL_FLOAT, ptexels);


Note that the values MUST be provided in float...

Gazoo out...