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I would like to generate vertex geometry on the cpu and then pass it to the GPU and run a number of vertex shaders on the vertices and then get these transformed vertices back to the cpu. I dont want to render the vertices or run any fragment shaders.
Is it possible to get the vertex-shader transformed vertices back from the gpu onto the cpu?
If so how?
Yes, the facility required is called “Transform Feedback Buffers”. Extension to OpenGL-2
http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/transform_feedback2.txt
Introduced to being official OpenGL functionality with OpenGL-3.0