Parameters

Description

After clipping and division by w, depth coordinates range from $-1$ to 1, corresponding to the near and far clipping planes. glDepthRangef specifies a linear mapping of the normalized depth coordinates in this range to window depth coordinates. Regardless of the actual depth buffer implementation, window coordinate depth values are treated as though they range from 0 through 1 (like color components). Thus, the values accepted by glDepthRangef are both clamped to this range before they are accepted.

The setting of (0,1) maps the near plane to 0 and the far plane to 1. With this mapping, the depth buffer range is fully utilized.

Notes

It is not necessary that nearVal be less than farVal. Reverse mappings such as $\mathit{nearVal}=1$, and $\mathit{farVal}=0$ are acceptable.

Associated Gets

glGet with argument GL_DEPTH_RANGE

See Also

glDepthFunc, glPolygonOffset, glViewport