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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="glMultiDrawElementsBaseVertex">\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>glMultiDrawElementsBaseVertex</refentrytitle>\r
13 <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>\r
14 </refmeta>\r
15 <refnamediv>\r
16 <refname>glMultiDrawElementsBaseVertex</refname>\r
17 <refpurpose>render multiple sets of primitives by specifying indices of array data elements and an index to apply to each index</refpurpose>\r
18 </refnamediv>\r
19 <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>\r
20 <funcsynopsis>\r
21 <funcprototype>\r
22 <funcdef>void <function>glMultiDrawElementsBaseVertex</function></funcdef>\r
23 <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>mode</parameter></paramdef>\r
24 <paramdef>const GLsizei *<parameter>count</parameter></paramdef>\r
25 <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>type</parameter></paramdef>\r
26 <paramdef>const GLvoid **<parameter>indices</parameter></paramdef>\r
27 <paramdef>GLsizei <parameter>primcount</parameter></paramdef>\r
28 <paramdef>GLint *<parameter>basevertex</parameter></paramdef>\r
29 </funcprototype>\r
30 </funcsynopsis>\r
31 </refsynopsisdiv>\r
32 <!-- eqn: ignoring delim $$ -->\r
33 <refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>\r
34 <variablelist>\r
35 <varlistentry>\r
36 <term><parameter>mode</parameter></term>\r
37 <listitem>\r
38 <para>\r
39 Specifies what kind of primitives to render.\r
40 Symbolic constants\r
41 <constant>GL_POINTS</constant>,\r
42 <constant>GL_LINE_STRIP</constant>,\r
43 <constant>GL_LINE_LOOP</constant>,\r
44 <constant>GL_LINES</constant>,\r
45 <constant>GL_LINE_STRIP_ADJACENCY</constant>,\r
46 <constant>GL_LINES_ADJACENCY</constant>,\r
47 <constant>GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP</constant>,\r
48 <constant>GL_TRIANGLE_FAN</constant>,\r
49 <constant>GL_TRIANGLES</constant>,\r
50 <constant>GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP_ADJACENCY</constant> and\r
51 <constant>GL_TRIANGLES_ADJACENCY</constant>\r
52 are accepted.\r
53 </para>\r
54 </listitem>\r
55 </varlistentry>\r
56 <varlistentry>\r
57 <term><parameter>count</parameter></term>\r
58 <listitem>\r
59 <para>\r
60 Points to an array of the elements counts.\r
61 </para>\r
62 </listitem>\r
63 </varlistentry>\r
64 <varlistentry>\r
65 <term><parameter>type</parameter></term>\r
66 <listitem>\r
67 <para>\r
68 Specifies the type of the values in <parameter>indices</parameter>. Must be one of\r
69 <constant>GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE</constant>, <constant>GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT</constant>, or\r
70 <constant>GL_UNSIGNED_INT</constant>.\r
71 </para>\r
72 </listitem>\r
73 </varlistentry>\r
74 <varlistentry>\r
75 <term><parameter>indices</parameter></term>\r
76 <listitem>\r
77 <para>\r
78 Specifies a pointer to the location where the indices are stored.\r
79 </para>\r
80 </listitem>\r
81 </varlistentry>\r
82 <varlistentry>\r
83 <term><parameter>primcount</parameter></term>\r
84 <listitem>\r
85 <para>\r
86 Specifies the size of the <parameter>count</parameter> array.\r
87 </para>\r
88 </listitem>\r
89 </varlistentry>\r
90 <varlistentry>\r
91 <term><parameter>basevertex</parameter></term>\r
92 <listitem>\r
93 <para>\r
94 Specifies a pointer to the location where the base vertices are stored.\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>glMultiDrawElementsBaseVertex</function> behaves identically to <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawElementsBaseVertex</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
103 except that <parameter>primcount</parameter> separate lists of elements are specifried instead.\r
104 </para>\r
105 <para>\r
106 It has the same effect as:\r
107 <programlisting> for (int i = 0; i &lt; <parameter>primcount</parameter>; i++)\r
108 if (<parameter>count</parameter>[i] > 0)\r
109 glDrawElementsBaseVertex(<parameter>mode</parameter>,\r
110 <parameter>count</parameter>[i],\r
111 <parameter>type</parameter>,\r
112 <parameter>indices[i]</parameter>,\r
113 <parameter>basevertex[i]</parameter>);</programlisting>\r
114 </para>\r
115 </refsect1>\r
116 <refsect1 id="notes"><title>Notes</title>\r
117 <para>\r
118 <function>glMultiDrawElementsBaseVertex</function> is available only if the GL version is 3.1 or greater.\r
119 </para>\r
120 <para>\r
121 <constant>GL_LINE_STRIP_ADJACENCY</constant>,\r
122 <constant>GL_LINES_ADJACENCY</constant>,\r
123 <constant>GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP_ADJACENCY</constant> and\r
124 <constant>GL_TRIANGLES_ADJACENCY</constant>\r
125 are available only if the GL version is 3.2 or greater.\r
126 </para>\r
127 </refsect1>\r
128 <refsect1 id="errors"><title>Errors</title>\r
129 <para>\r
130 <constant>GL_INVALID_ENUM</constant> is generated if <parameter>mode</parameter> is not an accepted value.\r
131 </para>\r
132 <para>\r
133 <constant>GL_INVALID_VALUE</constant> is generated if <parameter>primcount</parameter> is negative.\r
134 </para>\r
135 <para>\r
136 <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if a non-zero buffer object name is bound to an\r
137 enabled array or the element array and the buffer object's data store is currently mapped.\r
138 </para>\r
139 </refsect1>\r
140 <refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>\r
141 <para>\r
142 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glMultiDrawElements</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
143 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawElementsBaseVertex</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
144 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawArrays</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
145 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glVertexAttribPointer</refentrytitle></citerefentry>\r
146 </para>\r
147 </refsect1>\r
148 <refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>\r
149 <para>\r
150 Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 2010 Khronos Group. \r
151 This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in \r
152 the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.\r
153 <ulink url="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</ulink>.\r
154 </para>\r
155 </refsect1>\r
156</refentry>\r