texm3x2depth (Pixel Shader)

Calculate the depth value to be used in depth testing for this pixel.

Syntax

texm3x2depth (Pixel Shader) dest, src

Registers

dest

Destination register.

src

Input source register.

Remarks

Pixel shader versions	1_1	1_2	1_3	1_4	2_0	2_x	2_sw	3_0	3_sw
texm3x2depth			x

This instruction must be used with the texm3x2pad instruction.

When using these two instructions, texture registers must use the following sequence.

 
tex t(n)                     // Define tn as a standard 3-vector.(tn must be 
                             // defined in some way before it is used.
texm3x2pad   t(m),   t(n)    // Where m > n
                             // Calculate z value.
texm3x2depth t(m+1), t(n)    // Calculate w value; use both z and w to
                             // find depth.
				

The depth calculation is done after using a dot product operation to find z and w. Here is more detail about how the depth calculation is accomplished.

The texm3x2pad instruction calculates z.

z = TextureCoordinates(stage m)UVW • t(n)RGB    

The texm3x2depth instruction calculates w.

w = TextureCoordinates(stage m+1)UVW • t(n)RGB    

Calculate depth and store the result in t(m+1).

 
if (w == 0)
  t(m+1) = 1.0
else
  t(m+1) = z/w
				

The calculated depth is tagged to be used in the depth test for the pixel, replacing the existing depth test value for the pixel.

Be sure to clamp z/w to be in the range of (0-1). If z/w is outside this range, the result stored in the depth buffer will be undefined.

After running tex3x2depth, register t(m+1) is no longer available for use in the shader.

When multisampling, using this instruction eliminates most of the benefit of the higher resolution depth buffer. Because the pixel shader runs once per pixel, the single depth value output by texm3x2depth (Pixel Shader) or texdepth will be used for each of the subpixel depth comparison tests.

Instruction Information

Minimum operating systems	Windows 98