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   4 <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="mathml.xsl"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:pref="http://www.w3.org/2002/Math/preference" pref:renderer="mathplayer-dl"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="opengl-man.css" /><title>glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertex</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.69.1" /></head><body><div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="glDrawElementsBaseVertex"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertex — render multiple instances of a set of primitives from array data with a per-element offset</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>C Specification</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">void <b class="fsfunc">glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertex</b>(</code></td><td>GLenum  </td><td><var class="pdparam">mode</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>GLsizei  </td><td><var class="pdparam">count</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>GLenum  </td><td><var class="pdparam">type</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>GLvoid * </td><td><var class="pdparam">indices</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>GLsizei  </td><td><var class="pdparam">primcount</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>GLint  </td><td><var class="pdparam">basevertex</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="parameters"></a><h2>Parameters</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>mode</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
   5                     Specifies what kind of primitives to render.
   6                     Symbolic constants
   7                     <code class="constant">GL_POINTS</code>, <code class="constant">GL_LINE_STRIP</code>, <code class="constant">GL_LINE_LOOP</code>,
   8                     <code class="constant">GL_LINES</code>, <code class="constant">GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP</code>, <code class="constant">GL_TRIANGLE_FAN</code>,
   9                     and <code class="constant">GL_TRIANGLES</code> are accepted.
  10                 </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>count</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
  11                     Specifies the number of elements to be rendered.
  12                 </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>type</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
  13                     Specifies the type of the values in indices. Must be one of <code class="constant">GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE</code>,
  14                     <code class="constant">GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT</code>, or <code class="constant">GL_UNSIGNED_INT</code>.
  15                 </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>indices</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
  16                     Specifies a pointer to the location where the indices are stored.
  17                 </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>primcount</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
  18                     Specifies the number of instances of the indexed geometry that should be drawn.
  19                 </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>basevertex</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
  20                     Specifies a constant that should be added to each element of <em class="parameter"><code>indices</code></em>
  21                     when chosing elements from the enabled vertex arrays.
  22                 </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="description"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
  23             <code class="function">glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertex</code> behaves identically to
  24             <a href="glDrawElementsInstanced.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDrawElementsInstanced</span></span></a> except that the <span class="emphasis"><em>i</em></span>th element
  25             transferred by the corresponding draw call will be taken from element <em class="parameter"><code>indices</code></em>[i] + <em class="parameter"><code>basevertex</code></em>
  26             of each enabled array. If the resulting value is larger than the maximum value representable by <em class="parameter"><code>type</code></em>,
  27             it is as if the calculation were upconverted to 32-bit unsigned integers (with wrapping on overflow conditions).
  28             The operation is undefined if the sum would be negative.
  29         </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="notes"></a><h2>Notes</h2><code class="function">glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertex</code> is only supported if the GL version is 3.2 or greater.
  30     </div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="errors"></a><h2>Errors</h2><p>
  31             <code class="constant">GL_INVALID_ENUM</code> is generated if <em class="parameter"><code>mode</code></em> is not an accepted value.
  32         </p><p>
  33             <code class="constant">GL_INVALID_VALUE</code> is generated if <em class="parameter"><code>count</code></em> or <em class="parameter"><code>primcount</code></em> is negative.
  34         </p><p>
  35             <code class="constant">GL_INVALID_OPERATION</code> is generated if a geometry shader is active and <em class="parameter"><code>mode</code></em>
  36             is incompatible with the input primitive type of the geometry shader in the currently installed program object.
  37         </p><p>
  38             <code class="constant">GL_INVALID_OPERATION</code> is generated if a non-zero buffer object name is bound to an
  39             enabled array or the element array and the buffer object's data store is currently mapped.
  40         </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="seealso"></a><h2>See Also</h2><p>
  41             <a href="glDrawElements.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDrawElements</span></span></a>,
  42             <a href="glDrawRangeElements.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDrawRangeElements</span></span></a>,
  43             <a href="glDrawRangeElementsBaseVertex.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDrawRangeElementsBaseVertex</span></span></a>,
  44             <a href="glDrawElementsInstanced.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDrawElementsInstanced</span></span></a>,
  45             <a href="glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertex.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertex</span></span></a>
  46         </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="Copyright"></a><h2>Copyright</h2><p>
  47             Copyright <span class="trademark"></span>© 2010 Khronos Group.
  48             This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
  49             the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.
  50             <a href="http://opencontent.org/openpub/" target="_top">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</a>.
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