GLES3 context on mobile?

[Colin Gilbert]

Hi,

I am currently building a mobile game that will require GLES3 features, and SFML seems to support both Android and iOS. Is is possible to create an GLES3 context using SFML? I have poked around the source and it seems to only include GLES2 headers for mobile for its own rendering. However, I saw that one can create a GLES3 context on FreeBSD from this post.

Anyone tried to do so?

Thanks!
Colin

[Laurent]

I don't know about Android, but on iOS you can currently only create a GLES1 context. There hasn't been much work yet to support other versions of OpenGL ES.

[Mario]

Android works with GLES1 right now as well. Not sure how much work switching would be, but it's on the schedule I think (even if just to get proper shader support).

[Laurent]

The version that SFML works with has nothing to do with the version(s) that one can request with sf::ContextSettings. With the desktop implementation, you can request a context that won't support sfml-graphics (a forward compatible one, for example), which is ok if you only use sfml-window.

So even if the mobile ports are based on OpenGL ES 1, nothing prevents from adding the ability to give other versions on demand. It's just a little more work.