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.TH "GLMULTIDRAWARRAYSIND" "3G" "03/14/2026" "[FIXME: source]" "[FIXME: manual]"
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.SH "NAME"
glMultiDrawArraysIndirectCount \- render multiple sets of primitives from array data, taking parameters and count from memory
.SH "C SPECIFICATION"
.HP \w'void\ glMultiDrawArraysIndirectCount('u
.BI "void glMultiDrawArraysIndirectCount(GLenum\ " "mode" ", const\ void\ *" "indirect" ", GLintptr\ " "drawcount" ", GLsizei\ " "maxdrawcount" ", GLsizei\ " "stride" ");"
.SH "PARAMETERS"
.PP
\fImode\fR
.RS 4
Specifies what kind of primitives to render\&. Symbolic constants
\fBGL_POINTS\fR,
\fBGL_LINE_STRIP\fR,
\fBGL_LINE_LOOP\fR,
\fBGL_LINES\fR,
\fBGL_LINE_STRIP_ADJACENCY\fR,
\fBGL_LINES_ADJACENCY\fR,
\fBGL_TRIANGLE_STRIP\fR,
\fBGL_TRIANGLE_FAN\fR,
\fBGL_TRIANGLES\fR,
\fBGL_TRIANGLE_STRIP_ADJACENCY\fR,
\fBGL_TRIANGLES_ADJACENCY\fR, and
\fBGL_PATCHES\fR
are accepted\&.
.RE
.PP
\fIindirect\fR
.RS 4
Specifies the address of an array of structures containing the draw parameters\&.
.RE
.PP
\fIdrawcount\fR
.RS 4
Specifies an offset (in bytes) into the buffer object bound to the
\fBGL_PARAMETER_BUFFER\fR
binding point at which a single
\fIsizei\fR
typed value is stored\&. Must be a multiple of four\&.
.RE
.PP
\fImaxdrawcount\fR
.RS 4
Specifies the maximum number of draws that are expected to be stored in the buffer\&. If the value stored at
\fIdrawcount\fR
into the buffer is greater than
\fImaxdrawcount\fR, the implementation stops processing draws after
\fImaxdrawcount\fR
parameter sets\&.
.RE
.PP
\fIstride\fR
.RS 4
Specifies the distance in basic machine units between elements of the draw parameter array\&.
.RE
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBglMultiDrawArraysIndirectCount\fR
specifies multiple geometric primitives with very few subroutine calls\&.
\fBglMultiDrawArraysIndirectCount\fR
behaves similarly to
\fBglMultiDrawArraysIndirect\fR(), execept that the
\fIdrawcount\fR
parameter is stored in the buffer bound to the
\fBGL_PARAMETER_BUFFER\fR
binding at the offset specified by
\fIdrawcount\fR\&.
.PP
The parameters addressed by
\fIindirect\fR
are packed into an array of structures, each element of which takes the form (in C):
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
    typedef  struct {
        uint  count;
        uint  instanceCount;
        uint  first;
        uint  baseInstance;
    } DrawArraysIndirectCommand;
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.PP
If a buffer is bound to the
\fBGL_DRAW_INDIRECT_BUFFER\fR
binding at the time of a call to
\fBglMultiDrawArraysIndirectCount\fR,
\fIindirect\fR
is interpreted as an offset, in basic machine units, into that buffer and the parameter data is read from the buffer rather than from client memory\&.
.PP
In contrast to
\fBglDrawArraysInstancedBaseInstance\fR(), the
first
member of the parameter structure is unsigned, and out\-of\-range indices do not generate an error\&.
.PP
Vertex attributes that are modified by
\fBglMultiDrawArraysIndirectCount\fR
have an unspecified value after
\fBglMultiDrawArraysIndirectCount\fR
returns\&. Attributes that aren\*(Aqt modified remain well defined\&.
.SH "ERRORS"
.PP
\fBGL_INVALID_ENUM\fR
is generated if
\fImode\fR
is not an accepted value\&.
.PP
\fBGL_INVALID_VALUE\fR
is generated if
\fIstride\fR
is not a multiple of four\&.
.PP
\fBGL_INVALID_VALUE\fR
is generated if
\fIdrawcount\fR
is negative\&.
.PP
\fBGL_INVALID_OPERATION\fR
is generated if a non\-zero buffer object name is bound to an enabled array or to the
\fBGL_DRAW_INDIRECT_BUFFER\fR
binding and the buffer object\*(Aqs data store is currently mapped\&.
.PP
\fBGL_INVALID_OPERATION\fR
is generated if a geometry shader is active and
\fImode\fR
is incompatible with the input primitive type of the geometry shader in the currently installed program object\&.
.PP
\fBGL_INVALID_OPERATION\fR
is generated if
\fImode\fR
is
\fBGL_PATCHES\fR
and no tessellation control shader is active\&.
.PP
\fBGL_INVALID_OPERATION\fR
error is generated if no buffer is bound to the
\fBGL_PARAMETER_BUFFER\fR
binding point\&.
.PP
\fBGL_INVALID_OPERATION\fR
error is generated if
\fIdrawcount\fR
is not a multiple of four\&.
.PP
\fBGL_INVALID_OPERATION\fR
error is generated if reading a
\fIsizei\fR
typed value from the buffer bound to the
\fBGL_PARAMETER_BUFFER\fR
target at the offset specified by
\fIdrawcount\fR
would result in an out\-of\-bounds access\&.
.SH "VERSION SUPPORT"
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBglDrawArrays\fR(),
\fBglDrawArraysInstanced\fR(),
\fBglDrawElements\fR(),
\fBglDrawRangeElements\fR(),
\fBglDrawArraysIndirect\fR(),
\fBglMultiDrawArraysIndirect\fR(),
\fBglMultiDrawElementsIndirect\fR()
\fBglMultiDrawElementsIndirectCount\fR()
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.PP
Copyright
\(co
2012\-2014 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\&.
\m[blue]\fBhttps://opencontent\&.org/openpub/\fR\m[]\&.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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Copyright \(co 2012-2014 Khronos Group.
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