2010
Khronos Group
glDrawArraysInstanced
3G
glDrawArraysInstanced
draw multiple instances of a range of elements
C Specification
void glDrawArraysInstanced
GLenum mode
GLint first
GLsizei count
GLsizei primcount
Parameters
mode
Specifies what kind of primitives to render. Symbolic constants GL_POINTS,
GL_LINE_STRIP, GL_LINE_LOOP, GL_LINES,
GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, GL_TRIANGLE_FAN, GL_TRIANGLES
GL_LINES_ADJACENCY, GL_LINE_STRIP_ADJACENCY,
GL_TRIANGLES_ADJACENCY, GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP_ADJACENCY and GL_PATCHES
are accepted.
first
Specifies the starting index in the enabled arrays.
count
Specifies the number of indices to be rendered.
primcount
Specifies the number of instances of the specified range of indices to be rendered.
Description
glDrawArraysInstanced behaves identically to glDrawArrays
except that primcount instances of the range of elements are executed and the value of the internal counter
instanceID advances for each iteration. instanceID is an internal 32-bit integer counter
that may be read by a vertex shader as gl_InstanceID.
glDrawArraysInstanced has the same effect as:
Errors
GL_INVALID_ENUM is generated if mode is not one of
the accepted values.
GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if a geometry shader is active and mode
is incompatible with the input primitive type of the geometry shader in the currently installed program object.
GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if count or primcount are negative.
GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if a non-zero buffer object name is bound to an
enabled array and the buffer object's data store is currently mapped.
See Also
glDrawArrays,
glDrawElementsInstanced
Copyright
Copyright 2010 Khronos Group.
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