An In Engine Stencil Buffer

[DominicDolan]

Info

Currently the game engine still needs a dependency on the backend OpenGL library to manage the Stencil Buffer. It is intended for the core game engine to have no such dependency in the future.

Motive

The Stencil Buffer is a helpful feature of Open GL and it makes sense for the Engine to support it.

Task

Implementing this requires doing what needs to be done for all OpenGL features. This is to call the Stencil Buffer functions from the backend module (the desktop-application module) then the application-interface module can implement the tools which will used on the front end. These tools can then call the back end so that the backend does not need to be called directly. There is a unique way of calling the backend, look at the GLDrawCommands file to see an example of how this delegation is done.