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[Question] OpenGL 4+ Support

See original GitHub issue

Is it just that nobody has added GL4+ support? Or maybe that it wouldn’t add anything majorly new?

In Lwjgl3ApplicationConfiguration there’s useOpenGL3 and in com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx we have gl, gl20, gl30, etc.

I also see that LWJGL has all the way up to org.lwjgl.opengl.GL46.

So, would it make sense to add things such that GL4+ is setup similar to how you can enable GL30?

Thanks!

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Created 2 years ago
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Frosty-Jcommented, Sep 30, 2021

I believe those version numbers are based on OpenGL ES, and there is no OpenGL ES 4. We have OpenGL ES 3.0, which Wikipedia tells me requires OpenGL 4.3 for full compatibility on PC.

What we’re missing is OpenGL ES 3.2 (and 3.1) support - this has come up in Discord before. evilentity said “there will never be 3.1 on ios, so there is little reason to add it to android”, “you can call the stupid api yourslef”.

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Frosty-Jcommented, Sep 30, 2021

It can definitely be confusing, but renaming it now would break a lot of existing stuff.

I don’t really know anything about using OpenGL stuff directly, but if you don’t care about mobile and web I don’t see anything wrong with using OpenGL 4.6 features, bearing in mind hardware support for that version is limited (good if targeting gamer PCs). Also note that Macs support no newer than OpenGL 4.1, and likely never will.