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NAME

       glDrawElementsInstancedBaseInstance - draw multiple instances of a set of elements with offset applied to instanced attributes

C SPECIFICATION

       void glDrawElementsInstancedBaseInstance(GLenum mode, GLsizei count, GLenum type, const void * indices, GLsizei primcount,
						GLuitn baseinstance);

PARAMETERS

       mode
	   Specifies what kind of primitives to render. Symbolic constants GL_POINTS, GL_LINE_STRIP, GL_LINE_LOOP, GL_LINES,
	   GL_LINE_STRIP_ADJACENCY, GL_LINES_ADJACENCY, GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, GL_TRIANGLE_FAN, GL_TRIANGLES, GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP_ADJACENCY,
	   GL_TRIANGLES_ADJACENCY and GL_PATCHES are accepted.

       count
	   Specifies the number of elements to be rendered.

       type
	   Specifies the type of the values in indices. Must be one of GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, or GL_UNSIGNED_INT.

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

       primcount
	   Specifies the number of instances of the specified range of indices to be rendered.

       baseinstance
	   Specifies the base instance for use in fetching instanced vertex attributes.

DESCRIPTION

       glDrawElementsInstancedBaseInstance behaves identically to glDrawElements() except that primcount instances of the set of elements are
       executed and the value of the internal counter instanceID advances for each iteration.  instanceID is an internal 32-bit integer counter
       that may be read by a vertex shader as gl_InstanceID.

       glDrawElementsInstancedBaseInstance has the same effect as:

	       if (mode, count, or type is invalid )
		   generate appropriate error
	       else {
		   for (int i = 0; i < primcount ; i++) {
		       instanceID = i;
		       glDrawElements(mode, count, type, indices);
		   }
		   instanceID = 0;
	       }

       Specific vertex attributes may be classified as instanced through the use of glVertexAttribDivisor(). Instanced vertex attributes supply
       per-instance vertex data to the vertex shader. The index of the vertex fetched from the enabled instanced vertex attribute arrays is
       calculated as gl _ InstanceID divisor + baseInstance. Note that baseinstance does not affect the shader-visible value of gl_InstanceID.

NOTES

       glDrawElementsInstancedBaseInstance is available only if the GL version is 4.2 or greater.

       GL_LINE_STRIP_ADJACENCY, GL_LINES_ADJACENCY, GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP_ADJACENCY and GL_TRIANGLES_ADJACENCY are available only if the GL version is
       3.2 or greater.

ERRORS

       GL_INVALID_ENUM is generated if mode is not one of GL_POINTS, GL_LINE_STRIP, GL_LINE_LOOP, GL_LINES, GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, GL_TRIANGLE_FAN, or
       GL_TRIANGLES.

       GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if count or primcount are negative.

       GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if a geometry shader is active and mode is incompatible with the input primitive type of the geometry
       shader in the currently installed program object.

       GL_INVALID_OPERATION 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.

SEE ALSO

       glDrawElements(), glDrawArraysInstanced()

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2011 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.  http://opencontent.org/openpub/.

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