Table of features supported per graphic renderer

Panda3D Manual: Table of features supported per graphic renderer

This is a table of features that are not supported by all of the available Panda3D Graphic-State Guardians, as of 1.7.0. For brevity, features supported by all of the renderers are omitted.

	OpenGL	D3D8	D3D9	Tinydisplay
Rendering	Hardware	Hardware	Hardware	Software
CG shaders	Yes	No	Yes	No
GLSL shaders	Yes	No	No	No
Geometry shaders	Yes	No	No	No
Auto shaders	Yes	No	Partial	No
Depth textures	Yes	No	No¹	No
Multisampling	Yes	Yes²	Yes	No
Thick wireframe	Yes	No	No	No
Geometry instancing	Yes	No	No	No

¹ You can achieve shadow mapping by using shaders instead of the depth buffer at a minimal performance cost.

² Supported through the configuration setting dx-multisample-antialiasing-level.

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