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I have an earnest desire to use clipping planes, and I am currently using OpenGL ES 1.1. In theory I could upgrade to GL ES 2 or 3, I'd simply have to learn a bit more e.g. about shaders. But is there a way to do clipping planes in GL ES 1.1?

UPDATE: iOS has 6 planes available.

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According to the spec OpenGLES 1.1 supports clip planes. You can get the number of supported clip planes with glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_CLIP_PLANES, &iNumClipPlanes). The spec mandates at least 1 clip plane, which may not be sufficient for your needs.

If you're iOS specific, then this page shows that all the old iOS devices have 6 GL_MAX_CLIP_PLANES on OpenGLES 1.1, and I'd be surprised if the newer ones have less.

Alternatively, there are interesting ways to warp your view frustum to get a single clip plane which might help depending on your situation - particularly useful for reflections:

http://hacksoflife.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/every-now-and-then-i-come-across.html

http://www.terathon.com/code/oblique.html

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