Re: [Mesa3d-dev] GL_EXT_vertex_weighting

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Li Ming wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> But maybe the Vertex Program(also called Vertex shader) is a more
> general and uniform way to do such things. It even can do much more
> than the vertex weighting.
> 
> However, it seems that to implement the vertex program extension is a
> hard work because it modifies the traditional pipelines and involves
> transformation, lighting, fog, clipping etc.
> 
> By the way, the specification has been already released by Nvidia on
> their web page.

Read the "IP Status" section.  I don't think anyone outside of
NVIDIA can implement the extension without their permission.

-Brian