Is reading single pixels of a Texture's Depthbuffer possible?

[Zimond]

Will check it out in the next days. Looks great, thank you once more.

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Oooh thats what the Voxelstuff is about? Freaking awesome. Using this for light source occlusion would pretty much be directly usable for hit detection...

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OK so, in generell , it is best to avoid any GPU to CPU transfers.



That was my first thought, too. My understanding of Rays...

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I must admit that I have not really an idea what normalized depth values means I googled something about the range 0-1?

For clarification...

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I was thinking about a better way to "block" my lensflare effect and I thought that reading the value of the depthbuffer at the position where...

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I totally agree with that. Thankfully exclusive fullscreens are a thing of the past. By rendering to a texture you can still choose the resolution and...

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