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GLDRAWARRAYS(3G)                                              GLDRAWARRAYS(3G)

NAME
       glDrawArrays - render primitives from array data

C SPECIFICATION
       void glDrawArrays( GLenum mode,
                          GLint first,
                          GLsizei count )

PARAMETERS
       mode   Specifies what kind of primitives to render.  Symbolic constants
              GL_POINTS,      GL_LINE_STRIP,      GL_LINE_LOOP,      GL_LINES,
              GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, GL_TRIANGLE_FAN, GL_TRIANGLES, GL_QUAD_STRIP,
              GL_QUADS, and GL_POLYGON are accepted.

       first  Specifies the starting index in the enabled arrays.

       count  Specifies the number of indices to be rendered.

DESCRIPTION
       glDrawArrays specifies multiple geometric primitives with very few sub-
       routine  calls. Instead of calling a GL procedure to pass each individ-
       ual vertex, normal, texture coordinate, edge flag, or  color,  you  can
       prespecify  separate  arrays  of  vertices, normals, and colors and use
       them to construct a sequence  of  primitives  with  a  single  call  to
       glDrawArrays.

       When  glDrawArrays  is  called,  it uses count sequential elements from
       each enabled array to construct a sequence of geometric primitives, be-
       ginning  with element first. mode specifies what kind of primitives are
       constructed, and how the array elements construct those primitives.  If
       GL_VERTEX_ARRAY is not enabled, no geometric primitives are generated.

       Vertex attributes that are modified by glDrawArrays have an unspecified
       value after glDrawArrays returns. For example, if GL_COLOR_ARRAY is en-
       abled,  the  value of the current color is undefined after glDrawArrays
       executes. Attributes that aren't modified remain well defined.

NOTES
       glDrawArrays is available only if the GL version is 1.1 or greater.

       glDrawArrays is included in display lists. If glDrawArrays  is  entered
       into  a display list, the necessary array data (determined by the array
       pointers and enables) is also entered into the  display  list.  Because
       the  array pointers and enables are client-side state, their values af-
       fect display lists when the lists are created, not when the  lists  are
       executed.

ERRORS
       GL_INVALID_ENUM is generated if mode is not an accepted value.

       GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if count is negative.

       GL_INVALID_OPERATION  is  generated if glDrawArrays is executed between
       the execution of glBegin and the corresponding glEnd.

SEE ALSO
       glArrayElement(3G),       glColorPointer(3G),       glDrawElements(3G),
       glDrawRangeElements(3G),    glEdgeFlagPointer(3G),   glGetPointerv(3G),
       glIndexPointer(3G),    glInterleavedArrays(3G),    glNormalPointer(3G),
       glTexCoordPointer(3G), glVertexPointer(3G)

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