Hello,
I have a shader where I create several frame buffers and perform N passes through my display list. In the first pass I simply store the image and depth; in the second and all subsequent passes in the fragment shader I compare the current depth with the previously saved one and discard if it's in front of it. Then I blend all images in a final post-processing phase at swap time.
This all works fine, except for when there's z-clipping going on. I saved both the color and depth textures associated with each frame buffer and save all of them to a bmp file so I can see what's going on. I have just a few intersecting cones being displayed. In the area where z-clipping occurs both the depth and the color textures seem to have garbage defined on them.
I'm wondering whether there's something I'm not aware of regarding the data coming in. For example, I assume that gl_FragCoord.z is always between 0 and 1, and anything that's being clipped won't even go through the fragment shader. Is this the case? Or is z-clipping done after the fragment shader? In this case, should I expect gl_FragCoord.z < 0 or > 1 to be allowed?
I'm attaching the saved color texture. The solid colors are what I expect to see. The fuzzy area is exactly where the z-clipping plane is passing through. Any thoughts?
Thanks.