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There is nothing really comparable for OpenGL and it shows, really. Awesome work.

jcelerier 8y ago
sorry... what ? https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/specs/gl/glspec45.core.pdf https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/specs/gl/glspec45.co...
- Narann 8y ago
  Maybe it's just me, but PDF is harder to navigate/code/copy-paste than a plain HTML page. I would be curious to know which tools peoples preferring PDF as documentation uses.
  - maeln 8y ago
    Khronos publish GLSL spec and Vulkan Spec in several format, including HTML[0][1], so they definitly don't have anything against HTML/Plain text. I don't know why OpenGL specs are still only available has PDFs, maybe because they first wrote it using a format that not easily convertible to HTML. [0] https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/html/vkspec.html https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/html/vkspe... [1] https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/specs/gl/GLSLangSpec.4.60.html https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/specs/gl/GLSLangSpec...
- AHTERIX5000 8y ago
  I'm (too) familiar with the document but it isn't nearly as accurate and unambiguous as the DX one.
  - maeln 8y ago
    My biggest issue with it is that what is written in the specs often doesn't hold true when using lousy drivers ;) .
  - jdashg 8y ago
    GL specs are generally quite accurate, now that there are real conformance tests for implementations. They can feel imprecise though, as they tend to leave a bunch more as undefined, whereas d3d tends to be more strict, leaving fewer choices to implementations. Of course, the D3D11 spec didn't used to be public at all.
    - bitwize 8y ago
      The Fahrenheit project should've been a thing. Just declare Direct3D the new standard.
  - shmerl 8y ago
    DX has poor documented features. Ask DXVK developers about it.
- Rusky 8y ago
  From someone who wrote graphics drivers, D3D's spec is quite a bit better: https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/1115716179413176320 https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/1115716179413176320
Crinus 8y ago
There doesn't seem to be anything comparable for Direct3D 12 either, the relevant page [1] in the same site has only scattered documents about it instead of a single coherent one. [1] https://microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Specs/ https://microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Specs/

sorry... what ? https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/specs/gl/glspec45.core.pdf https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/specs/gl/glspec45.co...

Narann 8y ago
Maybe it's just me, but PDF is harder to navigate/code/copy-paste than a plain HTML page. I would be curious to know which tools peoples preferring PDF as documentation uses.
- maeln 8y ago
  Khronos publish GLSL spec and Vulkan Spec in several format, including HTML[0][1], so they definitly don't have anything against HTML/Plain text. I don't know why OpenGL specs are still only available has PDFs, maybe because they first wrote it using a format that not easily convertible to HTML. [0] https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/html/vkspec.html https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/html/vkspe... [1] https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/specs/gl/GLSLangSpec.4.60.html https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/specs/gl/GLSLangSpec...
AHTERIX5000 8y ago
I'm (too) familiar with the document but it isn't nearly as accurate and unambiguous as the DX one.
- maeln 8y ago
  My biggest issue with it is that what is written in the specs often doesn't hold true when using lousy drivers ;) .
- jdashg 8y ago
  GL specs are generally quite accurate, now that there are real conformance tests for implementations. They can feel imprecise though, as they tend to leave a bunch more as undefined, whereas d3d tends to be more strict, leaving fewer choices to implementations. Of course, the D3D11 spec didn't used to be public at all.
  - bitwize 8y ago
    The Fahrenheit project should've been a thing. Just declare Direct3D the new standard.
- shmerl 8y ago
  DX has poor documented features. Ask DXVK developers about it.
Rusky 8y ago
From someone who wrote graphics drivers, D3D's spec is quite a bit better: https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/1115716179413176320 https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/1115716179413176320

Crinus 8y ago

There doesn't seem to be anything comparable for Direct3D 12 either, the relevant page [1] in the same site has only scattered documents about it instead of a single coherent one. [1] https://microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Specs/ https://microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Specs/