1991-2006
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
2010-2014
Khronos Group
glClearDepthf
3G

# glClearDepthf

specify the clear value for the depth buffer

## C Specification

                    void glClearDepthf
                    GLfloat depth

## Parameters

`depth`

  Specifies the depth value used when the depth buffer is cleared. The initial value is 1.

## Description

`glClearDepthf` specifies the depth value used by glClear to clear the depth buffer. When clearing a fixed-point depth buffer, values specified by `glClearDepthf` are clamped to the range 0 1 , and converted to fixed-point. No clamping or conversion is applied when clearing a floating-point depth buffer.

## Associated Gets

glGet with argument `GL_DEPTH_CLEAR_VALUE`

## API Version Support

glClearDepthf

## See Also

glClear

## 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/.