ugh can some rendering expert remind me how you store a depth buffer for deferred rendering.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

ugh can some rendering expert remind me how you store a depth buffer for deferred rendering. do you linearize the depth before you store it by dividing by w? i can never remember

also do you still have to do that if you're reading from SV_POSITION semantic in the fragment shader?

[lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko Tweaking depth before storing it manually in fragment shader disable early depth test. Is there a reason just a normal depth buffer doesn't work for you?

[lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko What I usually did is use a normal depth buffer (with non-linear depth due to perspective), and only linearize it (i.e. convert to world-space distances) later in various post-processing that actually needs it

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lisyarus sorry, i meant normalize not linearize