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We now load OpenGLES 3 context on mobile when possible (but still fallback to OpenGLES 2).
Core Castle Game Engine for now doesn’t actually use any OpenGLES 3 functionality. But we make available SetTransformFeedbackVaryings for shaders, which can be utilized by components like Particle Emitter (particle system for 3D and 2D in CGE) to now work on mobile.
Many thanks go to Trung Le (Kagamma) for implementing this!
iOS note
We made it work for both Android and iOS. But then we disabled it for iOS, at least for now.
Because it caused a small regression in Unholy Society — sometimes using FBOs causes a weird shift in further display. This was observed only on iOS + OpenGLES 3 (same code works OK on everything else: OpenGL on desktops, Android with OpenGLES 2 and 3, iOS + OpenGLES 2). Evidently Apple didn’t make the OpenGLES 3 truly backward compatible with OpenGLES 2. If you want to try it anyway (everything else works, the regression likely doesn’t affect most applications), adjust the code responsible for context creation on iOS in tools/build-tool/data/ios/xcode_project/cge_project_name/OpenGLController.m. You want to use this:
EAGLContext *context = [[EAGLContext alloc] initWithAPI:kEAGLRenderingAPIOpenGLES3];
if (context == nil) {
context = [[EAGLContext alloc] initWithAPI:kEAGLRenderingAPIOpenGLES2];
}
Further details about this will follow. Ideally we want to workaround this problem at CGE level, and just create OpenGLES 3 context on iOS by default, same as on Android. If this will be impossible, we’ll give you a choice whether to try creating OpenGLES 3 context on iOS in CastleEngineManifest.xml.