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.. _table-of-features-supported-per-graphic-renderer:

Table of features supported per graphic renderer
================================================

This is a table of features that are not supported by all of the available
Panda3D graphics back-end plug-ins. For brevity, features supported by all of
the renderers are omitted.

This is by no means a complete list. The OpenGL renderer is by far the most
complete back-end, and many features that it supports are not yet listed
below.

+-----------------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
|                       | OpenGL       | Direct3D 9      | GLES, WebGL   | Tinydisplay   |
+=======================+==============+=================+===============+===============+
| Rendering             | Hardware     | Hardware        | Hardware      | Software      |
+-----------------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| Cg shaders            | Yes          | Yes             | No            | No            |
+-----------------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| GLSL shaders          | Yes          | No              | Yes           | No            |
+-----------------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| Geometry shaders      | Yes          | No              | No            | No            |
+-----------------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| Shader generation     | Yes          | Partial         | No            | No            |
+-----------------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| sRGB support          | Yes          | Yes             | No            | Yes           |
+-----------------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| Depth textures        | Yes          | No\ :sup:`1`    | Yes           | No            |
+-----------------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| 3-D textures          | Yes          | Yes             | Yes           | No            |
+-----------------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| Buffer textures       | Since 1.10   | No              | No            | No            |
+-----------------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| Multisampling         | Yes          | Yes\ :sup:`2`   | Yes           | No            |
+-----------------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| Thick wireframe       | Yes          | No              | Yes           | No            |
+-----------------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| Geometry instancing   | Yes          | No              | Since 1.9.1   | No            |
+-----------------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+

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

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