1991-2006
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
glMultiDrawElements
3G
glMultiDrawElements
render multiple sets of primitives by specifying indices of array data elements
C Specification
void glMultiDrawElements
GLenum mode
const GLsizei * count
GLenum type
const GLvoid ** indices
GLsizei primcount
Parameters
mode
Specifies 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.
primcount
Specifies the size of the count array.
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
primcount 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 primcount 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.
See Also
glDrawArrays,
glDrawRangeElements
Copyright
Copyright 1991-2006
Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI
Free Software B License. For details, see
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/.