Opentk/Source/Bind/Specifications/Docs/glDrawTransformFeedbackInstanced.xml

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<refentry id="glDrawTransformFeedbackInstanced">
    <refentryinfo>
        <copyright>
            <year>2010-2013</year>
            <holder>Khronos Group.</holder>
        </copyright>
    </refentryinfo>
    <refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>glDrawTransformFeedbackInstanced</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>
    <refnamediv>
        <refname>glDrawTransformFeedbackInstanced</refname>
        <refpurpose>render multiple instances of primitives using a count derived from a transform feedback object</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
        <funcsynopsis>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>void <function>glDrawTransformFeedbackInstanced</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>mode</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLuint <parameter>id</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLsizei <parameter>primcount</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
        <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>mode</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies what kind of primitives to render.
                    Symbolic constants
                    <constant>GL_POINTS</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_LINE_STRIP</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_LINE_LOOP</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_LINES</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_LINE_STRIP_ADJACENCY</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_LINES_ADJACENCY</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_TRIANGLE_FAN</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_TRIANGLES</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP_ADJACENCY</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_TRIANGLES_ADJACENCY</constant>, and
                    <constant>GL_PATCHES</constant>
                    are accepted.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>id</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies the name of a transform feedback object from which to retrieve a primitive count.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>primcount</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies the number of instances of the geometry to render.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>
        <para>
            <function>glDrawTransformFeedbackInstanced</function> draws multiple copies of a range of primitives of a type specified by <parameter>mode</parameter> using
            a count retrieved from the transform feedback stream specified by <parameter>stream</parameter> of the transform feedback object
            specified by <parameter>id</parameter>. Calling <function>glDrawTransformFeedbackInstanced</function>
            is equivalent to calling <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawArraysInstanced</refentrytitle></citerefentry> with <parameter>mode</parameter>
            and <parameter>primcount</parameter> as specified, <parameter>first</parameter> set to zero, and <parameter>count</parameter> set to the number of vertices captured
            on vertex stream zero the last time transform feedback was active on the transform feedback object named
            by <parameter>id</parameter>.
        </para>
        <para>
            Calling <function>glDrawTransformFeedbackInstanced</function>
            is equivalent to calling
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawTransformFeedbackStreamInstanced</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            with <parameter>stream</parameter> set to zero.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="errors"><title>Errors</title>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_ENUM</constant> is generated if <parameter>mode</parameter> is not an accepted value.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_VALUE</constant> is generated if <parameter>id</parameter> is not the name of a transform feedback
            object.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_VALUE</constant> is generated if <parameter>stream</parameter> is greater than or equal to
            the value of <constant>GL_MAX_VERTEX_STREAMS</constant>.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> 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.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if a geometry shader is active and <parameter>mode</parameter>
            is incompatible with the input primitive type of the geometry shader in the currently installed program object.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if <parameter>mode</parameter> is <constant>GL_PATCHES</constant>
            and no tessellation control shader is active.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glEndTransformFeedback</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            has never been called while the transform feedback object named by <parameter>id</parameter> was bound.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawArrays</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawArraysInstanced</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawElements</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawRangeElements</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawTransformFeedback</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawTransformFeedbackStreamInstanced</refentrytitle></citerefentry>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
        <para>
            Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 2010-2013 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.
            <ulink url="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</ulink>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
</refentry>