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	No¹	Yes	No
3-D textures	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Buffer textures	Since 1.10	No	No	No
Multisampling	Yes	Yes²	Yes	No
Thick wireframe	Yes	No	Yes	No
Geometry instancing	Yes	No	Since 1.9.1	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.