<div class="refentry"><a id="glDrawElementsBaseVertex"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>glDrawElementsBaseVertex — render primitives from array data with a per-element offset</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>C Specification</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table class="funcprototype-table" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">void <strong class="fsfunc">glDrawElementsBaseVertex</strong>(</code></td><td>GLenum <var class="pdparam">mode</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>GLsizei <var class="pdparam">count</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>GLenum <var class="pdparam">type</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>GLvoid *<var class="pdparam">indices</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>GLint <var class="pdparam">basevertex</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a id="parameters"></a><h2>Parameters</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>mode</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>

Specifies what kind of primitives to render.

Symbolic constants

<code class="constant">GL_POINTS</code>, <code class="constant">GL_LINE_STRIP</code>, <code class="constant">GL_LINE_LOOP</code>,

<code class="constant">GL_LINES</code>, <code class="constant">GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP</code>, <code class="constant">GL_TRIANGLE_FAN</code>,

and <code class="constant">GL_TRIANGLES</code> are accepted.

</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>count</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>

Specifies the number of elements to be rendered.

</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>type</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>

Specifies the type of the values in indices. Must be one of <code class="constant">GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE</code>,

<code class="constant">GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT</code>, or <code class="constant">GL_UNSIGNED_INT</code>.

</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>indices</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>

Specifies a pointer to the location where the indices are stored.

</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>basevertex</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>

Specifies a constant that should be added to each element of <em class="parameter"><code>indices</code></em>

when chosing elements from the enabled vertex arrays.

</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a id="description"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>

<code class="function">glDrawElementsBaseVertex</code> behaves identically to

<a class="citerefentry" href="glDrawElements"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDrawElements</span></span></a> except that the <span class="emphasis"><em>i</em></span>th element

transferred by the corresponding draw call will be taken from element <em class="parameter"><code>indices</code></em>[i] + <em class="parameter"><code>basevertex</code></em>

of each enabled array. If the resulting value is larger than the maximum value representable by <em class="parameter"><code>type</code></em>,

it is as if the calculation were upconverted to 32-bit unsigned integers (with wrapping on overflow conditions).

The operation is undefined if the sum would be negative.

</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a id="notes"></a><h2>Notes</h2><code class="function">glDrawElementsBaseVertex</code> is only supported if the GL version is 3.2 or greater, or if

the <code class="code">ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex</code> extension is supported.

</div><div class="refsect1"><a id="errors"></a><h2>Errors</h2><p>

<code class="constant">GL_INVALID_ENUM</code> is generated if <em class="parameter"><code>mode</code></em> is not an accepted value.

</p><p>

<code class="constant">GL_INVALID_VALUE</code> is generated if <em class="parameter"><code>count</code></em> is negative.

</p><p>

<code class="constant">GL_INVALID_OPERATION</code> is generated if a geometry shader is active and <em class="parameter"><code>mode</code></em>

is incompatible with the input primitive type of the geometry shader in the currently installed program object.

</p><p>

<code class="constant">GL_INVALID_OPERATION</code> 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.

</p></div>

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<div class="refsect1"><a id="seealso"></a><h2>See Also</h2><p>

<a class="citerefentry" href="glDrawElements"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDrawElements</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="glDrawRangeElements"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDrawRangeElements</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="glDrawRangeElementsBaseVertex"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDrawRangeElementsBaseVertex</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="glDrawElementsInstanced"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDrawElementsInstanced</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertex"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertex</span></span></a>

</p></div><div class="refsect1"><div id="Copyright"><h2>Copyright</h2><p>

Copyright © 2010 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.

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