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NAME¶
glMultiDrawElements - render multiple sets of primitives by specifying indices of array data elementsC SPECIFICATION¶
void glMultiDrawElements(GLenum mode,
const GLsizei * count,
GLenum type,
const GLvoid * const * indices,
GLsizei drawcount);
PARAMETERS¶
modeSpecifies what kind of primitives to render. Symbolic
constants GL_POINTS, GL_LINE_STRIP, GL_LINE_LOOP,
GL_LINES, GL_LINE_STRIP_ADJACENCY, GL_LINES_ADJACENCY,
GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, GL_TRIANGLE_FAN, GL_TRIANGLES,
GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP_ADJACENCY, GL_TRIANGLES_ADJACENCY and
GL_PATCHES are accepted.
count
Points to an array of the elements counts.
type
Specifies the type of the values in indices. Must
be one of GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, or
GL_UNSIGNED_INT.
indices
Specifies a pointer to the location where the indices are
stored.
drawcount
Specifies the size of the count and indices
arrays.
DESCRIPTION¶
glMultiDrawElements specifies multiple sets of geometric primitives with very few subroutine calls. Instead of calling a GL function to pass each individual vertex, normal, texture coordinate, edge flag, or color, you can prespecify separate arrays of vertices, normals, and so on, and use them to construct a sequence of primitives with a single call to glMultiDrawElements. glMultiDrawElements is identical in operation to glDrawElements() except that drawcount separate lists of elements are specified. Vertex attributes that are modified by glMultiDrawElements have an unspecified value after glMultiDrawElements returns. Attributes that aren't modified maintain their previous values.NOTES¶
GL_LINE_STRIP_ADJACENCY, GL_LINES_ADJACENCY, GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP_ADJACENCY and GL_TRIANGLES_ADJACENCY are available only if the GL version is 3.2 or greater.ERRORS¶
GL_INVALID_ENUM is generated if mode is not an accepted value. GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if drawcount is negative. GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if a non-zero buffer object name is bound to an enabled array or the element array and the buffer object's data store is currently mapped.VERSION SUPPORT¶
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Function / Feature Name | 2.0 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
glMultiDrawElements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
SEE ALSO¶
glDrawArrays(), glDrawRangeElements()COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 1991-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright © 2010-2014 Khronos Group. This document is licensed under the SGI Free Software B License. For details, see http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/.COPYRIGHT¶
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