Qt-contributors-summit-2013-OpenGL

Ideas for kicking off discussion

• New OpenGL enablers:
  • Textures
    • Samplers
  • Extending QOpenGLFramebufferObject
    • Access the color[i] attachment i>0
    • Access the depth+stencil attachments
  • Image Formats
  • Transform feedback
  • Uniform Buffers & Shader Storage Buffers
  • GL debug labels (QObject name?)
  • Occlusion queries
  • Shader pipeline objects (mix ‘n match shaders)
  • ?
• Moving QGLWidget -> QOpenGLWidget in QtWidgets
  • What’s left in QtOpenGL? => Deprecating QtOpenGL
  • How would it work with QGV
• Text rendering
  • On textures?
  • distance field generator in QtQuick => move to QtGui?
• Adopt a native GL context
• Driving animations from an OpenGL thread
• Qt3D 2.0