FBO: Texture Re-attachment Problem

OpenGL OpenGL: Advanced Coding
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Hello All,

I am calling two shader functions in a loop. Just before calling shader function I prepare resources for it to compute on.

Assume 3 textures of equal dimensions are to be attached to FBO fb


Steps:

1. Enable Texture GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_2D

2. Bind to off-screen frame buffer.
   glBindFrameBufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, fb);  [Assumed that fb was generated in some contstructor]  and change viewport settings.


3. set up textures
    setTexture(W , H, data , texture unit number , tex) ;

where parameters are self explanatory.

4. Attach to FBO
    glFrameBufferTextureEXT(..)


5. Call shader function to perform calculations


6. unbind texture units.
    glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0)
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE , 0);

  ....
 [same for GL_TEXTURE1 and GL_TEXTURE2 ]
 

7. disable texture
    glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB) ;


8. switch to on-screen or main frame buffer
   glBindFrameBuffer(.. , 0);


..... [Rest of the code]
Note: After this I do not plan to delte texture ids and fbo id as I am calling shader in a loop.


9. //to solve other problem using a different shader
   switch back to off-screen FBO and change viewport settings

10 . set up 2 textures of same dimensions but different from that used previously ( for previous shader)

11. call shader function number 2

12. same steps as 1-8 , but no FBO will have two attachments.

The Problem:

Q1 . I know that EXT version FBO does not permit 2 attachments of different formats and dimensions, but I need to know that after applying step no. 6 and step no.7 , why there should be any complaints of different dimensions attachment prohibited – by the same FBO identifier named “fb” ???

The error is thrown at step 10 when I am trying to attach my first texture identified by tex[0] at GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0_EXT to the FBO?

One of the solutions can be to go for ARB_FBO but that is supported at OGL 3.0 and + . I have OGL 3.0+ but need to know why there be an error of different dimensionality when I am removing textures from the attachments and then disabling GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB ???

Q2. Or is there another way to remove attachments from FBO ?

I used reference: http://www.opengl.org/wiki/GL_EXT_framebuffer_object

Q3. When I write


//assuming this is done when current frame buffer is "fb" [Off-screen frame buffer]
 glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
 glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE , 0);
..

Will it remove the attachment from FBO or just detach texture data from texture unit GL_TEXTURE0???

Q4. If for Q3, texture data is removed from GL_TEXTURE0 then how come FBO remembers previously attached texture’s dimensions ?

Help appreciated.

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Solved.