Low precision and clamping when writing to floating point FBO

Question

I have an FBO which has been created in the following way:

glGenRenderbuffers(1, &m_depthStencilBuffer);
glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, m_depthStencilBuffer);
glRenderbufferStorage(GL_RENDERBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_STENCIL, m_width, m_height);
glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, 0);

glGenTextures(1, &m_texture);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, m_texture);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, 0, GL_RGBA32F_ARB, m_width, m_height, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_FLOAT, 0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, 0);

glGenFramebuffers(1, &m_frameBuffer);
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, m_frameBuffer);
glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, m_texture, 0);
glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_ATTACHMENT, GL_RENDERBUFFER, m_depthStencilBuffer);
glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT, GL_RENDERBUFFER, m_depthStencilBuffer);
assert(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE == glCheckFramebufferStatus(GL_FRAMEBUFFER));
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);
assert(GL_NO_ERROR == glGetError());

I then render to this with this minimal fragment program:

void main() {
    gl_FragColor = float4(3.001001f, 2.00002f, 7.00003f, 4.00004f);
}

If I read out the pixels like this:

glReadPixels(0, 0, width, height, GL_RGBA, GL_FLOAT, &pixels[0]);

and check the pixels written by the above fragment program they are (1, 1, 1, 1). I only added the glReadPixels for testing purposes, I get the same problem if I try to sample the FBO in another fragment program with textureRect.

Answer 1

Yes, it will be clamped to the range (0, 1) - check out glClampColor and disable color clamping.

Hope this helps!