Confused on Steam Play and Proton? Be sure to check out our guide.
We do often include affiliate links to earn us some pennies. See more here.

Valve's OpenGL Debugger VOGL Now Open Source On Github

By - | Views: 7,758
Valve mentioned at Steam Dev Days that they were working on an OpenGL debugger, they have now delivered. Vogl is now on github for all to see.

Rich Geldreich from Valve noted this on his blog:
QuoteWednesday, March 12, 2014

vogl GL debugger source is on github
We promised at Steam Dev Days we would open source the project, so here it is:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/vogl

Creating a OpenGL debugger that handles both full-stream tracing *and* state snapshotting (with compat profile support to boot!) is a surprisingly massive undertaking for ~3 devs, so please bear with us. We're knee deep in fleshing out the UI and improving the tracer/replayer to be fully compatible with GL v3.3 (4.x will be later this year). Please file bug reports on github and send us trace logs (or apitrace/vogl traces), etc. and we'll do our best to make it work with your app.

We'll be posting more instructions and our current TODO list on the wiki soon.

We're currently in the process of adding PBO support (done, testing it right now), and we've added the ability to snapshot while buffers are mapped during replaying. (Both things are needed to trace/replay/snapshot Steam 10ft.)

Source

The license is the same as their Direct3D to OpenGL debugger that they recently open sourced too, you are free to do as you wish as long as the license file stays there.

It's really fantastic to see Valve give big so well to the community, this is after handing out free games to both Debian and Ubuntu developers. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
0 Likes
About the author -
author picture
I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly came back to check on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly. Find me on Mastodon.
See more from me
The comments on this article are closed.
2 comments

Anonymous Mar 13, 2014
Love me some Valve. If that's not pushing things forward, I don't know what this is.
DrMcCoy Mar 13, 2014
This is very nice indeed. :)
While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:

Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.

This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!

You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
The comments on this article are closed.