DepthTexture: Support texture depth comparison.

docs/api/en/constants/Textures.html

@@ -316,6 +316,18 @@ <h2>BPTC Compressed Texture Format</h2>
 			[link:https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/extensions/EXT_texture_compression_bptc/ EXT_texture_compression_bptc] extension. <br /><br />
 		</p>
 
+		<h2>Texture Comparison functions</h2>
+		<code>
+		THREE.NeverCompare
+		THREE.LessCompare
+		THREE.EqualCompare
+		THREE.LessEqualCompare
+		THREE.GreaterCompare
+		THREE.NotEqualCompare
+		THREE.GreaterEqualCompare
+		THREE.AlwaysCompare
+		</code>
+
 		<h2>Internal Formats</h2>
 		<code>
 		'ALPHA'

docs/api/en/textures/DepthTexture.html

@@ -119,6 +119,13 @@ <h3>[page:Texture.generateMipmaps .generateMipmaps]</h3>
 		<h3>[property:Boolean isDepthTexture]</h3>
 		<p>Read-only flag to check if a given object is of type [name].</p>
 
+		<h3>[property:String compareFunction]</h3>
+		<p>
+		This is used to define the comparison function used when comparing texels in the depth texture to the value in the depth buffer.<br /><br/>
+
+		See the [page:Textures texture constants] page for details of other functions.
+		</p>
+
 		<h2>Methods</h2>
 
 		<p>See the base [page:Texture Texture] class for common methods.</p>

src/constants.js

@@ -173,6 +173,15 @@ export const NotEqualStencilFunc = 517;
 export const GreaterEqualStencilFunc = 518;
 export const AlwaysStencilFunc = 519;
 
+export const NeverCompare = 512;
+export const LessCompare = 513;
+export const EqualCompare = 514;
+export const LessEqualCompare = 515;
+export const GreaterCompare = 516;
+export const NotEqualCompare = 517;
+export const GreaterEqualCompare = 518;
+export const AlwaysCompare = 519;
+
 export const StaticDrawUsage = 35044;
 export const DynamicDrawUsage = 35048;
 export const StreamDrawUsage = 35040;

src/renderers/webgl/WebGLTextures.js

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { LinearFilter, LinearMipmapLinearFilter, LinearMipmapNearestFilter, NearestFilter, NearestMipmapLinearFilter, NearestMipmapNearestFilter, RGBAFormat, DepthFormat, DepthStencilFormat, UnsignedShortType, UnsignedIntType, UnsignedInt248Type, FloatType, HalfFloatType, MirroredRepeatWrapping, ClampToEdgeWrapping, RepeatWrapping, UnsignedByteType, _SRGBAFormat, NoColorSpace, LinearSRGBColorSpace, SRGBColorSpace } from '../../constants.js';
+import { LinearFilter, LinearMipmapLinearFilter, LinearMipmapNearestFilter, NearestFilter, NearestMipmapLinearFilter, NearestMipmapNearestFilter, RGBAFormat, DepthFormat, DepthStencilFormat, UnsignedShortType, UnsignedIntType, UnsignedInt248Type, FloatType, HalfFloatType, MirroredRepeatWrapping, ClampToEdgeWrapping, RepeatWrapping, UnsignedByteType, _SRGBAFormat, NoColorSpace, LinearSRGBColorSpace, SRGBColorSpace, NeverCompare, AlwaysCompare, LessCompare, LessEqualCompare, EqualCompare, GreaterEqualCompare, GreaterCompare, NotEqualCompare } from '../../constants.js';
 import * as MathUtils from '../../math/MathUtils.js';
 import { ImageUtils } from '../../extras/ImageUtils.js';
 import { createElementNS } from '../../utils.js';
@@ -526,6 +526,17 @@ function WebGLTextures( _gl, extensions, state, properties, capabilities, utils,
 		[ LinearMipmapLinearFilter ]: _gl.LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR
 	};
 
+	const compareToGL = {
+		[ NeverCompare ]: _gl.NEVER,
+		[ AlwaysCompare ]: _gl.ALWAYS,
+		[ LessCompare ]: _gl.LESS,
+		[ LessEqualCompare ]: _gl.LEQUAL,
+		[ EqualCompare ]: _gl.EQUAL,
+		[ GreaterEqualCompare ]: _gl.GEQUAL,
+		[ GreaterCompare ]: _gl.GREATER,
+		[ NotEqualCompare ]: _gl.NOTEQUAL
+	};
+
 	function setTextureParameters( textureType, texture, supportsMips ) {
 
 		if ( supportsMips ) {
@@ -570,6 +581,13 @@ function WebGLTextures( _gl, extensions, state, properties, capabilities, utils,
 
 		}
 
+		if ( texture.compareFunction ) {
+
+			_gl.texParameteri( textureType, _gl.TEXTURE_COMPARE_MODE, _gl.COMPARE_REF_TO_TEXTURE );
+			_gl.texParameteri( textureType, _gl.TEXTURE_COMPARE_FUNC, compareToGL[ texture.compareFunction ] );
+
+		}
+
 		if ( extensions.has( 'EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic' ) === true ) {
 
 			const extension = extensions.get( 'EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic' );

src/textures/DepthTexture.js

@@ -28,9 +28,31 @@ class DepthTexture extends Texture {
 		this.flipY = false;
 		this.generateMipmaps = false;
 
+		this.compareFunction = null;
+
 	}
 
 
+	copy( source ) {
+
+		this.compareFunction = source.compareFunction;
+
+		super.copy( source );
+
+		return this;
+
+	}
+
+	toJSON( meta ) {
+
+		const data = super.toJSON( meta );
+
+		if ( this.compareFunction !== null ) data.compareFunction = this.compareFunction;
+
+		return data;
+
+	}
+
 }
 
 export { DepthTexture };