Vertex Elements

This state controls the format of the input attributes contained in pipe_vertex_buffers. There is one pipe_vertex_element array member for each input attribute.

Input Formats

Gallium supports a diverse range of formats for vertex data. Drivers are guaranteed to support 32-bit floating-point vectors of one to four components. Additionally, they may support the following formats:

• Integers, signed or unsigned, normalized or non-normalized, 8, 16, or 32 bits wide
• Floating-point, 16, 32, or 64 bits wide

At this time, support for varied vertex data formats is limited by driver deficiencies. It is planned to support a single uniform set of formats for all Gallium drivers at some point.

Rather than attempt to specify every small nuance of behavior, Gallium uses a very simple set of rules for padding out unspecified components. If an input uses less than four components, it will be padded out with the constant vector (0, 0, 0, 1).

Fog, point size, the facing bit, and edgeflags, all are in the standard format of (x, 0, 0, 1), and so only the first component of those inputs is used.

Position

Vertex position may be specified with two to four components. Using less than two components is not allowed.

Colors

Colors, both front- and back-facing, may omit the alpha component, only using three components. Using less than three components is not allowed.

Members

src_offset

The byte offset of the attribute in the buffer given by vertex_buffer_index for the first vertex.

instance_divisor

The instance data rate divisor, used for instancing. 0 means this is per-vertex data, n means per-instance data used for n consecutive instances (n > 0).

vertex_buffer_index

The vertex buffer this attribute lives in. Several attributes may live in the same vertex buffer.

src_format

The format of the attribute data. One of the PIPE_FORMAT tokens.