OpenGL calls in native extension?

Is it possible to get access to retrieving texture ids from a native extension and use open gl calls on it? I’m working on a custom lighting and shadowing system and I need to upload a fair bit of data to the gpu, it wouldn’t be feasible with the currently exposed render script pipeline.

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It’s currently not possible no.

You can create your own OpenGL device to create/use your own textures, but communicating them back to the engine via Lua and resource.set_texture(), but it’s not extremely performant.

We will discuss this further in the engine to decide upon a good way forward, but it will take some time and it not likely to happen soon.

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At the moment you can guess texture id, its not pretty, but it will allow you to experiment until a better way is implemented. Try numbers from 1 to 10 and see what happens.

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