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Feature requests / Max and Min blending mode
« on: March 07, 2021, 03:46:37 pm »
The enumeration sf::BlendMode::Equation contains only three constants. But as far as I know, OpenGL implementations that support Subtract also support Max and Min.
An old thread said that there were no use for Min and Max BlendMode equations. However, I strongly disagree with that statement as my current project rely on the Max blending mode.
Indeed, I want to make an 2D infiltration game, where some agents (say cameras) have a viewing score for each pixel in their range. When two or more of these cameras view the same zone, the viewing score of a pixel is the maximum score of each camera.
I want the player to visualize these viewing zones, and for that I plan to draw a viewing zone for each camera and rely on the blending mode to actually retain the maximum value.
Speaking about Min, if I hypothetically wanted to instead draw safeness of a given pixel I would like each camera to locally decrease safeness of its neighboring pixels, and remember the minimal safeness value instead of the maximum.
Obviously, I can fork SFML for my current project to fulfill my needs, but I really think that Max and Min blending modes can be useful for others, and their implementation in the library is trivial (around 15 LoC).
If I submit a pull request to add Min and Max blending mode, would you accept it ?
An old thread said that there were no use for Min and Max BlendMode equations. However, I strongly disagree with that statement as my current project rely on the Max blending mode.
Indeed, I want to make an 2D infiltration game, where some agents (say cameras) have a viewing score for each pixel in their range. When two or more of these cameras view the same zone, the viewing score of a pixel is the maximum score of each camera.
I want the player to visualize these viewing zones, and for that I plan to draw a viewing zone for each camera and rely on the blending mode to actually retain the maximum value.
Speaking about Min, if I hypothetically wanted to instead draw safeness of a given pixel I would like each camera to locally decrease safeness of its neighboring pixels, and remember the minimal safeness value instead of the maximum.
Obviously, I can fork SFML for my current project to fulfill my needs, but I really think that Max and Min blending modes can be useful for others, and their implementation in the library is trivial (around 15 LoC).
If I submit a pull request to add Min and Max blending mode, would you accept it ?