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Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:18 pm**

Hi,
I'm trying to do some sanity testing while writing shaders. It would be great if I could specify the clear value of the depth buffer so I can check it in my shader. In OpenGL, this is done with 'glClearDepth' as far as I can tell, not sure about D3D. It seems like the right place would be in the Viewport class. Maybe the interface would look like this?

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@param value the value to initialize all pixels in the depth buffer with
void Viewport::setDepthClear(double value);

Thanks

Posted: **Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:18 am**

If you don't mind clearing manually rather than using the auto clear, you can call Viewport::clear which takes a colour, depth and stencil value to clear the buffer with.

Posted: **Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:36 am**

I see, Viewport::clear is new in SVN trunk. I added it to the changelog in the CthugaNotes in the wiki.

Anyway, having a getter/setter for a depth value is still nice and not hard to do and doesn't need any adjustments design wise.
Cryfer, if you still need it, best implement it yourself and submit a patch.

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:14 am**

haffax wrote:Anyway, having a getter/setter for a depth value is still nice and not hard to do and doesn't need any adjustments design wise.
Cryfer, if you still need it, best implement it yourself and submit a patch.

I'm not Cyfer, but done.

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