Is it possible to copy data from one framebuffer to another in OpenGL?

opengl-es, opengl-es-2.0

Solution

glBlitFramebuffer accomplishes what you are looking for. Additionally, you can blit one TEXTURE onto another without requiring two framebuffers. I'm not sure using one fbo is possible with OpenGL ES 2.0 but the following code could be easily modified to use two fbos. You just need to attach different textures to different framebuffer attachments. glBlitFramebuffer function will even manage downsampling / upsampling for anti-aliasing applications! Here is an example of it's usage:

// bind fbo as read / draw fbo
glBindFramebuffer(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER,m_fbo);
glBindFramebuffer(GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER, m_fbo);

// bind source texture to color attachment
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,m_textureHandle0);
glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_TEXTURE_2D, m_textureHandle0, 0);
glDrawBuffer(GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0);

// bind destination texture to another color attachment
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,m_textureHandle1);
glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT1, GL_TEXTURE_2D, m_textureHandle1, 0);
glReadBuffer(GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT1);


// specify source, destination drawing (sub)rectangles. 
glBlitFramebuffer(from.left(),from.top(), from.width(), from.height(),
                  to.left(),to.top(), to.width(), to.height(), GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT, GL_NEAREST);

// release state
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,0);
glBindFramebuffer(GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);
glBindFramebuffer(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER,0);

Problem

I guess it is somehow possible since this: ``` glBindFramebuffer(GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER_APPLE, _multisampleFramebuffer); glBindFramebuffer(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER_APPLE, _framebuffer); glResolveMultisampleFramebufferAPPLE(); ``` does exactly that, and on top resolves the multisampling. However, it's an Apple extension and I was wondering if there is something similar that copies all the logical buffers from one framebuffer to another and doesn't do the multisampling part in the vanilla implementation. `GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER` doesn't seem to be a valid target, so I'm guessing there is no direct way? How about workarounds? EDIT: Seems it's possible to use `glCopyImageSubData` in OpenGL 4, unfortunately not in my case since I'm using OpenGL ES 2.0 on iPhone, which seems to be lacking that function. Any other way?

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