OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook - Third Edition

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To clear our buffers, prior to the first pass, we bind clearBuf to the GL_PIXEL_UNPACK_BUFFER binding point, and call glTexSubImage2D to copy data from clearBuf to the the head pointer texture. Note that when a non-zero buffer is bound to GL_PIXEL_UNPACK_BUFFER, glTexSubImage2D treats the last parameter as an offset into the buffer that is bound there. Therefore, this will initiate a copy from clearBuf into headPtrTex. Clearing the atomic counter is straightforward, but the use of glBindBufferBase may be a bit confusing. If there can be several buffers bound to the binding point (at different indices), how does glBufferSubData know which buffer to target? It turns out that when we bind a buffer using glBindBufferBase, it is ...