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.TH "GLMULTIDRAWELEMENTS" "3G" "10/20/2024" "[FIXME: source]" "[FIXME: manual]"
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.SH "NAME"
glMultiDrawElements \- render multiple sets of primitives by specifying indices of array data elements
.SH "C SPECIFICATION"
.HP \w'void\ glMultiDrawElements('u
.BI "void glMultiDrawElements(GLenum\ " "mode" ", const\ GLsizei\ *\ " "count" ", GLenum\ " "type" ", const\ void\ *\ const\ *\ " "indices" ", GLsizei\ " "drawcount" ");"
.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
\fIcount\fR
.RS 4
Points to an array of the elements counts\&.
.RE
.PP
\fItype\fR
.RS 4
Specifies the type of the values in
\fIindices\fR\&. Must be one of
\fBGL_UNSIGNED_BYTE\fR,
\fBGL_UNSIGNED_SHORT\fR, or
\fBGL_UNSIGNED_INT\fR\&.
.RE
.PP
\fIindices\fR
.RS 4
Specifies a pointer to the location where the indices are stored\&.
.RE
.PP
\fIdrawcount\fR
.RS 4
Specifies the size of the
\fIcount\fR
and
\fIindices\fR
arrays\&.
.RE
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBglMultiDrawElements\fR
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
\fBglMultiDrawElements\fR\&.
.PP
\fBglMultiDrawElements\fR
is identical in operation to
\fBglDrawElements\fR()
except that
\fIdrawcount\fR
separate lists of elements are specified\&.
.PP
Vertex attributes that are modified by
\fBglMultiDrawElements\fR
have an unspecified value after
\fBglMultiDrawElements\fR
returns\&. Attributes that aren\*(Aqt modified maintain their previous values\&.
.SH "NOTES"
.PP
\fBGL_LINE_STRIP_ADJACENCY\fR,
\fBGL_LINES_ADJACENCY\fR,
\fBGL_TRIANGLE_STRIP_ADJACENCY\fR
and
\fBGL_TRIANGLES_ADJACENCY\fR
are available only if the GL version is 3\&.2 or greater\&.
.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
\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 the element array and the buffer object\*(Aqs data store is currently mapped\&.
.SH "VERSION SUPPORT"
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBglDrawArrays\fR(),
\fBglDrawRangeElements\fR()
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.PP
Copyright
\(co
1991\-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc\&. Copyright
\(co
2010\-2014 Khronos Group\&. This document is licensed under the SGI Free Software B License\&. For details, see
\m[blue]\fBhttps://khronos\&.org/registry/OpenGL\-Refpages/LICENSES/LicenseRef\-FreeB\&.txt\fR\m[]\&.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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Copyright \(co 2010-2014 Khronos Group
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