Package org.lwjgl.opengles

Class OESVertexHalfFloat

java.lang.Object
org.lwjgl.opengles.OESVertexHalfFloat
public final class OESVertexHalfFloat extends Object
Native bindings to the OES_vertex_half_float extension.

This extension adds a 16-bit floating pt data type (aka half float) to vertex data specified using vertex arrays. The 16-bit floating-point components have 1 sign bit, 5 exponent bits, and 10 mantissa bits.

The half float data type can be very useful in specifying vertex attribute data such as color, normals, texture coordinates etc. By using half floats instead of floats, we reduce the memory requirements by half. Not only does the memory footprint reduce by half, but the memory bandwidth required for vertex transformations also reduces by the same amount approximately. Another advantage of using half floats over short/byte data types is that we do not needto scale the data. For example, using SHORT for texture coordinates implies that we need to scale the input texture coordinates in the shader or set an appropriate scale matrix as the texture matrix for fixed function pipeline. Doing these additional scaling operations impacts vertex transformation performance.

  • Field Summary

    Fields
    Modifier and Type
    Field
    Description
    static final int
    GL_HALF_FLOAT_OES
    Accepted by the type parameter of VertexPointer, NormalPointer, ColorPointer, SecondaryColorPointer, IndexPointer, FogCoordPointer, TexCoordPointer, and VertexAttribPointer.

  • Method Summary

    Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

    equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

  • Field Details

    • GL_HALF_FLOAT_OES

      public static final int GL_HALF_FLOAT_OES
      Accepted by the type parameter of VertexPointer, NormalPointer, ColorPointer, SecondaryColorPointer, IndexPointer, FogCoordPointer, TexCoordPointer, and VertexAttribPointer.
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