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<!DOCTYPE refentry [ <!ENTITY % mathent SYSTEM "math.ent"> %mathent; ]>

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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="glDrawArraysInstanced">
    <info>
        <copyright>
            <year>2010-2014</year>
            <holder>Khronos Group</holder>
        </copyright>
    </info>
    <refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>glDrawArraysInstanced</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>
    <refnamediv>
        <refname>glDrawArraysInstanced</refname>
        <refpurpose>draw multiple instances of a range of elements</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
        <funcsynopsis>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>void <function>glDrawArraysInstanced</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>mode</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLint <parameter>first</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLsizei <parameter>count</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLsizei <parameter>primcount</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsect1 xml: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_TRIANGLE_STRIP</constant>, <constant>GL_TRIANGLE_FAN</constant>, <constant>GL_TRIANGLES</constant>
                    <constant>GL_LINES_ADJACENCY</constant>, <constant>GL_LINE_STRIP_ADJACENCY</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_TRIANGLES_ADJACENCY</constant>, <constant>GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP_ADJACENCY</constant> and <constant>GL_PATCHES</constant>
                    are accepted.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>first</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies the starting index in the enabled arrays.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>count</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies the number of indices to be rendered.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>primcount</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies the number of instances of the specified range of indices to be rendered.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="description"><title>Description</title>
        <para>
            <function>glDrawArraysInstanced</function> behaves identically to <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawArrays</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            except that <parameter>primcount</parameter> instances of the range of elements are executed and the value of the internal counter
            <parameter>instanceID</parameter> advances for each iteration. <parameter>instanceID</parameter> is an internal 32-bit integer counter
            that may be read by a vertex shader as <constant>gl_InstanceID</constant>.
        </para>
        <para>
            <function>glDrawArraysInstanced</function> has the same effect as:
            <programlisting>    if ( mode or count is invalid )
        generate appropriate error
    else {
        for (int i = 0; i &lt; primcount ; i++) {
            instanceID = i;
            glDrawArrays(mode, first, count);
        }
        instanceID = 0;
    }</programlisting>
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="errors"><title>Errors</title>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_ENUM</constant> is generated if <parameter>mode</parameter> is not one of
            the accepted values.
        </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_VALUE</constant> is generated if <parameter>count</parameter> or <parameter>primcount</parameter> are negative.
        </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>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="versions"><title>Version Support</title>
        <informaltable>
            <tgroup cols="13" align="left">
                <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="apifunchead.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/*/*)"/>
                <tbody>
                    <row>
                        <entry><function>glDrawArraysInstanced</function></entry>
                        <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="apiversion.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@role='31']/*)"/>
                    </row>
                </tbody>
            </tgroup>
        </informaltable>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawArrays</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawElementsInstanced</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
        <para>
            Copyright <trademark class="copyright"/> 2010-2014 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.
            <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</link>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
</refentry>