For the futureĪs we have seen, Qt 5.1 adds a great deal new functionality and enablers around OpenGL. The availability of Geometry, Tessellation stage and Compute shaders really opens the doors for some interesting effects and order of magnitude improvements in performance over what is possible with plain OpenGL 2.x.
Qt 5.1 will include support for all shader stages supported by OpenGL: In Qt 5.0 the QOpenGLShader and QOpenGLShaderProgram classes only had support for Vertex and Fragment shaders. Earlier articles in this series are available at:
This article concludes our series on what is new in Qt 5.1 with respect to OpenGL.
