Is there a technical reason to limit the depth buffer to 24 bit ?

green-baron

Hi,

i assume it's because of a combination of depth and stencil buffers in a single framebuffer texture.

Just asking, for terrain and anyway large scenes, it would be nice to have a more flexible depth buffer. I do not know, maybe GLES doesn't support the formats for 32 bit floating point depth buffer ? OpenGL does and Vulkan anyway.

Calinou

Last time I checked, 32-bit depth buffers weren't well-supported across hardware. This is probably a reason why it's not exposed in Godot.

Pixophir

Hi,
does Godot 4 have a 32bit floating point depth buffer option ?
This is standard on PC hardware at least. Would simplify 3D life in open spaces greatly :-)

cybereality

I'm not sure, but this proposal seems to indicate it's not supported.
https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/3539