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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\r
2<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook MathML Module V1.1b1//EN"\r
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/mathml/1.1CR1/dbmathml.dtd">\r
4<refentry id="glDrawRangeElementsBaseVertex">\r
5 <refmeta>\r
6 <refmetainfo>\r
7 <copyright>\r
8 <year>2010</year>\r
9 <holder>Khronos Group</holder>\r
10 </copyright>\r
11 </refmetainfo>\r
12 <refentrytitle>glDrawRangeElementsBaseVertex</refentrytitle>\r
13 <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>\r
14 </refmeta>\r
15 <refnamediv>\r
16 <refname>glDrawRangeElementsBaseVertex</refname>\r
17 <refpurpose>render primitives from array data with a per-element offset</refpurpose>\r
18 </refnamediv>\r
19 <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>\r
20 <funcsynopsis>\r
21 <funcprototype>\r
22 <funcdef>void <function>glDrawRangeElementsBaseVertex</function></funcdef>\r
23 <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>mode</parameter></paramdef>\r
24 <paramdef>GLuint <parameter>start</parameter></paramdef>\r
25 <paramdef>GLuint <parameter>end</parameter></paramdef>\r
26 <paramdef>GLsizei <parameter>count</parameter></paramdef>\r
27 <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>type</parameter></paramdef>\r
28 <paramdef>GLvoid *<parameter>indices</parameter></paramdef>\r
29 <paramdef>GLint <parameter>basevertex</parameter></paramdef>\r
30 </funcprototype>\r
31 </funcsynopsis>\r
32 </refsynopsisdiv>\r
33 <!-- eqn: ignoring delim $$ -->\r
34 <refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>\r
35 <variablelist>\r
36 <varlistentry>\r
37 <term><parameter>mode</parameter></term>\r
38 <listitem>\r
39 <para>\r
40 Specifies what kind of primitives to render.\r
41 Symbolic constants\r
42 <constant>GL_POINTS</constant>, <constant>GL_LINE_STRIP</constant>, <constant>GL_LINE_LOOP</constant>,\r
43 <constant>GL_LINES</constant>, <constant>GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP</constant>, <constant>GL_TRIANGLE_FAN</constant>,\r
44 and <constant>GL_TRIANGLES</constant> are accepted.\r
45 </para>\r
46 </listitem>\r
47 </varlistentry>\r
48 <varlistentry>\r
49 <term><parameter>start</parameter></term>\r
50 <listitem>\r
51 <para>\r
52 Specifies the minimum array index contained in <parameter>indices</parameter>.\r
53 </para>\r
54 </listitem>\r
55 </varlistentry>\r
56 <varlistentry>\r
57 <term><parameter>end</parameter></term>\r
58 <listitem>\r
59 <para>\r
60 Specifies the maximum array index contained in <parameter>indices</parameter>.\r
61 </para>\r
62 </listitem>\r
63 </varlistentry>\r
64 <varlistentry>\r
65 <term><parameter>count</parameter></term>\r
66 <listitem>\r
67 <para>\r
68 Specifies the number of elements to be rendered.\r
69 </para>\r
70 </listitem>\r
71 </varlistentry>\r
72 <varlistentry>\r
73 <term><parameter>type</parameter></term>\r
74 <listitem>\r
75 <para>\r
76 Specifies the type of the values in indices. Must be one of <constant>GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE</constant>,\r
77 <constant>GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT</constant>, or <constant>GL_UNSIGNED_INT</constant>.\r
78 </para>\r
79 </listitem>\r
80 </varlistentry>\r
81 <varlistentry>\r
82 <term><parameter>indices</parameter></term>\r
83 <listitem>\r
84 <para>\r
85 Specifies a pointer to the location where the indices are stored.\r
86 </para>\r
87 </listitem>\r
88 </varlistentry>\r
89 <varlistentry>\r
90 <term><parameter>basevertex</parameter></term>\r
91 <listitem>\r
92 <para>\r
93 Specifies a constant that should be added to each element of <parameter>indices</parameter>\r
94 when chosing elements from the enabled vertex arrays.\r
95 </para>\r
96 </listitem>\r
97 </varlistentry>\r
98 </variablelist>\r
99 </refsect1>\r
100 <refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>\r
101 <para>\r
102 <function>glDrawRangeElementsBaseVertex</function> is a restricted form of\r
103 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawElementsBaseVertex</refentrytitle></citerefentry>. <parameter>mode</parameter>,\r
104 <parameter>start</parameter>, <parameter>end</parameter>, <parameter>count</parameter> and <parameter>basevertex</parameter> match\r
105 the corresponding arguments to <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawElementsBaseVertex</refentrytitle></citerefentry>, with the additional\r
106 constraint that all values in the array <parameter>indices</parameter> must lie between <parameter>start</parameter> and <parameter>end</parameter>,\r
107 inclusive, prior to adding <parameter>basevertex</parameter>. Index values lying outside the range [<parameter>start</parameter>, <parameter>end</parameter>]\r
108 are treated in the same way as <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawElementsBaseVertex</refentrytitle></citerefentry>. The <emphasis>i</emphasis>th element\r
109 transferred by the corresponding draw call will be taken from element <parameter>indices</parameter>[i] + <parameter>basevertex</parameter> of each enabled\r
110 array. If the resulting value is larger than the maximum value representable by <parameter>type</parameter>, it is as if the calculation were upconverted to\r
111 32-bit unsigned integers (with wrapping on overflow conditions). The operation is undefined if the sum would be negative.\r
112 </para>\r
113 </refsect1>\r
114 <refsect1 id="notes"><title>Notes</title>\r
115 <function>glDrawRangeElementsBaseVertex</function> is only supported if the GL version is 3.2 or greater, or if\r
116 the <code>ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex</code> extension is supported.\r
117 </refsect1>\r
118 <refsect1 id="errors"><title>Errors</title>\r
119 <para>\r
120 <constant>GL_INVALID_ENUM</constant> is generated if <parameter>mode</parameter> is not an accepted value.\r
121 </para>\r
122 <para>\r
123 <constant>GL_INVALID_VALUE</constant> is generated if <parameter>count</parameter> is negative.\r
124 </para>\r
125 <para>\r
126 <constant>GL_INVALID_VALUE</constant> is generated if <parameter>end</parameter> &lt; <parameter>start</parameter>.\r
127 </para>\r
128 <para>\r
129 <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if a geometry shader is active and <parameter>mode</parameter>\r
130 is incompatible with the input primitive type of the geometry shader in the currently installed program object.\r
131 </para>\r
132 <para>\r
133 <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if a non-zero buffer object name is bound to an\r
134 enabled array or the element array and the buffer object's data store is currently mapped.\r
135 </para>\r
136 </refsect1>\r
137 <refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>\r
138 <para>\r
139 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawElements</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
140 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawElementsBaseVertex</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
141 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawRangeElements</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
142 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawElementsInstanced</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
143 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertex</refentrytitle></citerefentry>\r
144 </para>\r
145 </refsect1>\r
146 <refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>\r
147 <para>\r
148 Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 2010 Khronos Group. \r
149 This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in \r
150 the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.\r
151 <ulink url="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</ulink>.\r
152 </para>\r
153 </refsect1>\r
154</refentry>\r