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    <info>
        <copyright>
            <year>2013</year>
            <holder>Khronos Group</holder>
        </copyright>
    </info>
    <refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>glVertexAttribFormat</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>
    <refnamediv>
        <refname>glVertexAttribFormat</refname>
        <refpurpose>specify the organization of vertex arrays</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
        <funcsynopsis>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>void <function>glVertexAttribFormat</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>GLuint <parameter>attribindex</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLint <parameter>size</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>type</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLboolean <parameter>normalized</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLuint <parameter>relativeoffset</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>
        <funcsynopsis>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>void <function>glVertexAttribIFormat</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>GLuint <parameter>attribindex</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLint <parameter>size</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>type</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLuint <parameter>relativeoffset</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>
        <funcsynopsis>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>void <function>glVertexAttribLFormat</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>GLuint <parameter>attribindex</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLint <parameter>size</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>type</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLuint <parameter>relativeoffset</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsect1 xml:id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
        <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>attribindex</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    The generic vertex attribute array being described.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>size</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    The number of values per vertex that are stored in the array.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>type</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    The type of the data stored in the array.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>normalized</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    The distance between elements within the buffer.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>relativeoffset</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    The distance between elements within the buffer.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="description"><title>Description</title>
        <para>
            <function>glVertexAttribFormat</function>, <function>glVertexAttribIFormat</function> and
            <function>glVertexAttribLFormat</function> specify the organization of data in vertex arrays.
            <parameter>attribindex</parameter> specifies the index of the generic vertex attribute
            array whose data layout is being described, and must be less
            than the value of <constant>GL_MAX_VERTEX_ATTRIBS</constant>.
        </para>
        <para>
            <parameter>size</parameter> determines the number of components per vertex are allocated
            to the specifed attribute and must be 1, 2, 3 or 4. <parameter>type</parameter> indicates
            the type of the data. If <parameter>type</parameter> is one of <constant>GL_BYTE</constant>,
            <constant>GL_SHORT</constant>, <constant>GL_INT</constant>, <constant>GL_FIXED</constant>,
            <constant>GL_FLOAT</constant>, <constant>GL_HALF_FLOAT</constant>, and
            <constant>GL_DOUBLE</constant> indicate types <code>GLbyte</code>, <code>GLshort</code>,
            <code>GLint</code>, <code>GLfixed</code>, <code>GLfloat</code>, <code>GLhalf</code>, and
            <code>GLdouble</code>, respectively; the values <constant>GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE</constant>,
            <constant>GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT</constant>, and <constant>GL_UNSIGNED_INT</constant> indicate types
            <code>GLubyte</code>, <code>GLushort</code>, and <code>GLuint</code>,
            respectively; the values <constant>GL_INT_2_10_10_10_REV</constant> and
            <constant>GL_UNSIGNED_INT_2_10_10_10_REV</constant> indicating respectively four signed or
            unsigned elements packed into a single <code>GLuint</code>; and the value
            <constant>GL_UNSIGNED_INT_10F_11F_11F_REV</constant> indicating three floating point values
            packed into a single <code>GLuint</code>.
        </para>
        <para>
            <function>glVertexAttribLFormat</function> is used to specify layout for
            data associated with a generic attribute variable declared as 64-bit double precision
            components. For <function>glVertexAttribLFormat</function>, <parameter>type</parameter>
            must be <constant>GL_DOUBLE</constant>. In contrast to <function>glVertexAttribFormat</function>,
            which will cause data declared as <constant>GL_DOUBLE</constant> to be converted to 32-bit
            representation, <function>glVertexAttribLFormat</function> causes such data to be left
            in its natural, 64-bit representation.
        </para>
        <para>
            For <function>glVertexAttribFormat</function>, if <parameter>normalized</parameter> is
            <constant>GL_TRUE</constant>, then integer data is normalized to the range [-1, 1] or
            [0, 1] if it is signed or unsigned, respectively. If <parameter>noramlized</parameter> is
            <constant>GL_FALSE</constant> then integer data is directly converted to floating point.
        </para>
        <para>
            <parameter>relativeoffset</parameter> is the offset, measured in basic machine units
            of the first element relative to the start of the vertex buffer binding this attribute
            fetches from.
        </para>
        <para>
            <function>glVertexAttribFormat</function> should be used to describe vertex attribute
            layout for floating-point vertex attributes, <function>glVertexAttribIFormat</function>
            should be used to describe vertex attribute layout for integer vertex attribute
            and <function>glVertexAttribLFormat</function> should be used to describe the layout
            for 64-bit vertex attributes. Data for an array specified by
            <function>glVertexAttribIFormat</function> will always be left as integer values;
            such data are referred to as pure integers.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="notes"><title>Notes</title>
            <para>
            <constant>GL_UNSIGNED_INT_10F_11F_11F_REV</constant> is accepted for <parameter>type</parameter>
            only if the GL version is 4.4 or higher.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="errors"><title>Errors</title>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVAILD_VALUE</constant> is generated if <parameter>attribindex</parameter> is greater than
            or equal to the value of <constant>GL_MAX_VERTEX_ATTRIBS</constant>.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_VALUE</constant> is generated if <parameter>size</parameter> is not
            one of the accepted values.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_VALUE</constant> is generated if <parameter>relativeoffset</parameter> is greater
            than the value of <constant>GL_MAX_VERTEX_ATTRIB_RELATIVE_OFFSET</constant>.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_ENUM</constant> is generated if <parameter>type</parameter> is not
            one of the accepted tokens.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if no vertex array object is bound.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="associatedgets"><title>Associated Gets</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGet</refentrytitle></citerefentry> with arguments <constant>GL_MAX_VERTEX_ATTRIB_BINDINGS</constant>,
            or <constant>GL_MAX_VERTEX_ATTRIB_RELATIVE_OFFSET</constant>.
        </para>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGetVertexAttrib</refentrytitle></citerefentry> with argument <constant>GL_VERTEX_ATTRIB_RELATIVE_OFFSET</constant>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glBindVertexBuffer</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glVertexAttribBinding</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glVertexAttribPointer</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glVertexBindingDivisor</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glVertexAttribPointer</refentrytitle></citerefentry>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
        <para>
            Copyright <trademark class="copyright"/> 2013 Khronos Group.
            This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
            the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.
            <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</link>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
</refentry>
