Advanced buffers

OpenGL
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I love the memory mamagement of the OpenGL 2.0
proposal, but i have and idea of something that could be added:
A buffer should be able to be used to do a lot of
things (for instance render to texure, shadow casting,…).
Couldn’t i try to create custom buffers like this:

buf = CreateBuffer(Z_BUFFER|TEXTURE);
UseBufferAs(buf,Z_BUFFER);

draw_something();

UseBufferAs(buf,TEXTURE);

draw_something_else();

Using the content of the buffer (zbuffer, stencil or color) as texture, or to render shadows…

This was just suggestion…

2

You can detach any buffer from the render target and attach it to texture.

So OpenGL 2.0 supports render-to-texture.