PSGL is a rendering API available additionally to GCM and

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for

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. PSGL is based on

OpenGL ES OpenGL for Embedded Systems (OpenGL ES or GLES) is a subset of the OpenGL computer graphics rendering application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D computer graphics such as those used by video games, typically hardware-accelerate ...

and Nvidia's CG. A previous version of PSGL was available for the

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but was largely unused. PSGL was meant to be a foundation for the future, beyond the PlayStation 3, but for the

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Sony introduced

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and GNMX and also their custom shading language, ''PlayStation Shader Language'' (PSSL).

Features

*Programmable shading with Cg *OpenGL ES 1.1 extensions (VBO, FBO, PBO, Cubemap) *texture extensions (FP, DXT, 3D, NPO2, Aniso, Depth, Vertex Textures) *primitive/rendering extensions (Instancing, Primitive Restart, Queries, Conditional Rendering) *synchronization extensions (Fences, Events) *SCE performance extensions (TextureReference, AttribSet)

References

3D graphics APIs PlayStation 3 {{Videogame-software-stub

Features

See also

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