OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.3, Eighth Edition

Layered Rendering

When rendering into a framebuffer object, it is possible to use a 2D array texture as a color attachment and render into the slices of the array using a geometry shader. To create a 2D array texture and attach it to a framebuffer object, use code such as that shown in Example 10.24.

Example 10.24. Example Code to Create an FBO with an Array Texture Attachment

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// Declare variablesGLuint tex;        // This will be the 2D array textureGLuint fbo;        // The framebuffer object// Create and allocate a 1024x1024x32 2D array textureglGenTextures(1, &tex);glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY, tex);glTexImage3D(GL_TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY,             0,             GL_RGBA,             1024,             1024, ...