<div class="refentry" id="glDepthRange">

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<h2>Name</h2>

<p>glDepthRange — specify mapping of depth values from normalized device coordinates to window coordinates</p>

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<h2>C Specification</h2>

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<code class="funcdef">void <strong class="fsfunc">glDepthRange</strong>(</code>

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<td>GLdouble <var class="pdparam">nearVal</var>, </td>

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<td>GLdouble <var class="pdparam">farVal</var><code>)</code>;</td>

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<code class="funcdef">void <strong class="fsfunc">glDepthRangef</strong>(</code>

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<td>GLfloat <var class="pdparam">nearVal</var>, </td>

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<td>GLfloat <var class="pdparam">farVal</var><code>)</code>;</td>

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<div class="refsect1" id="parameters">

<h2>Parameters</h2>

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<span class="term">

<em class="parameter">

<code>nearVal</code>

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<p>

Specifies the mapping of the near clipping plane to window coordinates.

The initial value is 0.

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<span class="term">

<em class="parameter">

<code>farVal</code>

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<p>

Specifies the mapping of the far clipping plane to window coordinates.

The initial value is 1.

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<div class="refsect1" id="description">

<h2>Description</h2>

<p>

After clipping and division by <span class="emphasis"><em>w</em></span>,

depth coordinates range from

<math overflow="scroll">

<mn>-1</mn>

</math>

to 1,

corresponding to the near and far clipping planes.

<code class="function">glDepthRange</code> specifies a linear mapping of the normalized depth coordinates

in this range to window depth coordinates.

Regardless of the actual depth buffer implementation,

window coordinate depth values are treated as though they range

from 0 through 1 (like color components).

Thus,

the values accepted by <code class="function">glDepthRange</code> are both clamped to this range

before they are accepted.

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The setting of (0,1) maps the near plane to 0 and

the far plane to 1.

With this mapping,

the depth buffer range is fully utilized.

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<h2>Notes</h2>

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It is not necessary that <em class="parameter"><code>nearVal</code></em> be less than <em class="parameter"><code>farVal</code></em>.

Reverse mappings such as

<math overflow="scroll">

<mrow>

<mi mathvariant="italic">nearVal</mi>

<mo>=</mo>

<mn>1</mn>

</mrow>

</math>,

and

<math overflow="scroll">

<mrow>

<mi mathvariant="italic">farVal</mi>

<mo>=</mo>

<mn>0</mn>

</mrow>

</math>

are acceptable.

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The type of the <em class="parameter"><code>nearVal</code></em> and

<em class="parameter"><code>farVal</code></em> parameters was changed from

GLclampf to GLfloat for <code class="function">glDepthRangef</code>

and from GLclampd to GLdouble for

<code class="function">glDepthRange</code>. This change is

transparent to user code and is described in detail on the

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

page.

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<h2>Associated Gets</h2>

<p>

<a class="citerefentry" href="glGet"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glGet</span></span></a> with argument <code class="constant">GL_DEPTH_RANGE</code>

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{$pipelinestall}{$examples}

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<h2>Version Support</h2>

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<div class="refsect1" id="seealso">

<h2>See Also</h2>

<p>

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

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

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

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

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<div class="refsect1" id="Copyright">

<h2>Copyright</h2>

<p>

Copyright © 1991-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Copyright © 2010-2014 Khronos Group.

This document is licensed under the SGI Free Software B License.

For details, see

<a class="link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171022161616/http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/" target="_top">https://web.archive.org/web/20171022161616/http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/</a>.

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