/* * Cogl * * An object oriented GL/GLES Abstraction/Utility Layer * * Copyright (C) 2008,2009 Intel Corporation. * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this library. If not, see . * * * * Authors: * Robert Bragg */ #if !defined(__COGL_H_INSIDE__) && !defined(CLUTTER_COMPILATION) #error "Only can be included directly." #endif #ifndef __COGL_VERTEX_BUFFER_H__ #define __COGL_VERTEX_BUFFER_H__ #include #include #include G_BEGIN_DECLS /** * SECTION:cogl-vertex-buffer * @short_description: An API for submitting extensible arrays of vertex * attributes to be mapped into the GPU for fast drawing. * * For example to describe a textured triangle, you could create a new cogl * vertex buffer with 3 vertices, and then you might add 2 attributes for each * vertex: * * * a "gl_Position" describing the (x,y,z) position for each vertex. * * * a "gl_MultiTexCoord0" describing the (tx,ty) texture coordinates for each * vertex. * * * * The Vertex Buffer API is designed to be a fairly raw mechanism for * developers to be able to submit geometry to Cogl in a format that can be * directly consumed by an OpenGL driver and mapped into your GPU for fast * re-use. It is designed to avoid repeated validation of the attributes by the * driver; to minimize transport costs (e.g. considering indirect GLX * use-cases) and to potentially avoid repeated format conversions when * attributes are supplied in a format that is not natively supported by the * GPU. * * Although this API does allow you to modify attributes after they have been * submitted to the GPU you should be aware that modification is not that * cheap, since it implies validating the new data and potentially the * OpenGL driver will need to reformat it for the GPU. * * If at all possible think of tricks that let you re-use static attributes, * and if you do need to repeatedly update attributes (e.g. for some kind of * morphing geometry) then only update and re-submit the specific attributes * that have changed. */ /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_new: * @n_vertices: The number of vertices that your attributes will correspond to. * * Creates a new vertex buffer that you can use to add attributes. * * Return value: a new #CoglHandle */ CoglHandle cogl_vertex_buffer_new (unsigned int n_vertices); /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_get_n_vertices: * @handle: A vertex buffer handle * * Retrieves the number of vertices that @handle represents * * Return value: the number of vertices */ unsigned int cogl_vertex_buffer_get_n_vertices (CoglHandle handle); /** * CoglAttributeType: * @COGL_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_BYTE: Data is the same size of a byte * @COGL_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_UNSIGNED_BYTE: Data is the same size of an * unsigned byte * @COGL_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_SHORT: Data is the same size of a short integer * @COGL_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_UNSIGNED_SHORT: Data is the same size of * an unsigned short integer * @COGL_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_FLOAT: Data is the same size of a float * * Data types for the components of cogl_vertex_buffer_add() * * Since: 1.0 */ typedef enum { COGL_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_BYTE = GL_BYTE, COGL_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_UNSIGNED_BYTE = GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, COGL_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_SHORT = GL_SHORT, COGL_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_UNSIGNED_SHORT = GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, COGL_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_FLOAT = GL_FLOAT } CoglAttributeType; /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_add: * @handle: A vertex buffer handle * @attribute_name: The name of your attribute. It should be a valid GLSL * variable name and standard attribute types must use one of following * built-in names: (Note: they correspond to the built-in names of GLSL) * * "gl_Color" * "gl_Normal" * "gl_MultiTexCoord0, gl_MultiTexCoord1, ..." * "gl_Vertex" * * To support adding multiple variations of the same attribute the name * can have a detail component, E.g. "gl_Color::active" or * "gl_Color::inactive" * @n_components: The number of components per attribute and must be 1, 2, * 3 or 4 * @type: a #CoglAttributeType specifying the data type of each component. * @normalized: If %TRUE, this specifies that values stored in an integer * format should be mapped into the range [-1.0, 1.0] or [0.0, 1.0] * for unsigned values. If %FALSE they are converted to floats * directly. * @stride: This specifies the number of bytes from the start of one attribute * value to the start of the next value (for the same attribute). So, for * example, with a position interleved with color like this: * XYRGBAXYRGBAXYRGBA, then if each letter represents a byte, the * stride for both attributes is 6. The special value 0 means the * values are stored sequentially in memory. * @pointer: This addresses the first attribute in the vertex array. This * must remain valid until you either call cogl_vertex_buffer_submit() or * issue a draw call. * * Adds an attribute to a buffer. * * You either can use one of the built-in names such as "gl_Vertex", or * "gl_MultiTexCoord0" to add standard attributes, like positions, colors * and normals, or you can add custom attributes for use in shaders. * * The number of vertices declared when calling cogl_vertex_buffer_new() * determines how many attribute values will be read from the supplied * @pointer. * * The data for your attribute isn't copied anywhere until you call * cogl_vertex_buffer_submit(), or issue a draw call which automatically * submits pending attribute changes. so the supplied pointer must remain * valid until then. If you are updating an existing attribute (done by * re-adding it) then you still need to re-call cogl_vertex_buffer_submit() * to commit the changes to the GPU. Be carefull to minimize the number * of calls to cogl_vertex_buffer_submit(), though. * * If you are interleving attributes it is assumed that each interleaved * attribute starts no farther than +- stride bytes from the other attributes * it is interleved with. I.e. this is ok: * * |-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0| * * This is not ok: * * |- - - - -0-0-0-0-0-0 0 0 0 0| * * (Though you can have multiple groups of interleved attributes) */ void cogl_vertex_buffer_add (CoglHandle handle, const char *attribute_name, guint8 n_components, CoglAttributeType type, gboolean normalized, guint16 stride, const void *pointer); /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_delete: * @handle: A vertex buffer handle * @attribute_name: The name of a previously added attribute * * Deletes an attribute from a buffer. You will need to call * cogl_vertex_buffer_submit() or issue a draw call to commit this * change to the GPU. */ void cogl_vertex_buffer_delete (CoglHandle handle, const char *attribute_name); /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_submit: * @handle: A vertex buffer handle * * Submits all the user added attributes to the GPU; once submitted, the * attributes can be used for drawing. * * You should aim to minimize calls to this function since it implies * validating your data; it potentially incurs a transport cost (especially if * you are using GLX indirect rendering) and potentially a format conversion * cost if the GPU doesn't natively support any of the given attribute formats. */ void cogl_vertex_buffer_submit (CoglHandle handle); /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_disable: * @handle: A vertex buffer handle * @attribute_name: The name of the attribute you want to disable * * Disables a previosuly added attribute. * * Since it can be costly to add and remove new attributes to buffers; to make * individual buffers more reuseable it is possible to enable and disable * attributes before using a buffer for drawing. * * You don't need to call cogl_vertex_buffer_submit() after using this * function. */ void cogl_vertex_buffer_disable (CoglHandle handle, const char *attribute_name); /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_enable: * @handle: A vertex buffer handle * @attribute_name: The name of the attribute you want to enable * * Enables a previosuly disabled attribute. * * Since it can be costly to add and remove new attributes to buffers; to make * individual buffers more reuseable it is possible to enable and disable * attributes before using a buffer for drawing. * * You don't need to call cogl_vertex_buffer_submit() after using this function */ void cogl_vertex_buffer_enable (CoglHandle handle, const char *attribute_name); /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_draw: * @handle: A vertex buffer handle * @mode: A #CoglVerticesMode specifying how the vertices should be * interpreted. * @first: Specifies the index of the first vertex you want to draw with * @count: Specifies the number of vertices you want to draw. * * Allows you to draw geometry using all or a subset of the * vertices in a vertex buffer. * * Any un-submitted attribute changes are automatically submitted before * drawing. */ void cogl_vertex_buffer_draw (CoglHandle handle, CoglVerticesMode mode, int first, int count); /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_indices_new: * @indices_type: a #CoglIndicesType specifying the data type used for * the indices. * @indices_array: (array length=indices_len): Specifies the address of * your array of indices * @indices_len: The number of indices in indices_array * * Depending on how much geometry you are submitting it can be worthwhile * optimizing the number of redundant vertices you submit. Using an index * array allows you to reference vertices multiple times, for example * during triangle strips. * * Return value: A CoglHandle for the indices which you can pass to * cogl_vertex_buffer_draw_elements(). */ CoglHandle cogl_vertex_buffer_indices_new (CoglIndicesType indices_type, const void *indices_array, int indices_len); /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_indices_get_type: * @indices: An indices handle * * Queries back the data type used for the given indices * * Returns: The CoglIndicesType used */ CoglIndicesType cogl_vertex_buffer_indices_get_type (CoglHandle indices); /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_draw_elements: * @handle: A vertex buffer handle * @mode: A #CoglVerticesMode specifying how the vertices should be * interpreted. * @indices: A CoglHandle for a set of indices allocated via * cogl_vertex_buffer_indices_new () * @min_index: Specifies the minimum vertex index contained in indices * @max_index: Specifies the maximum vertex index contained in indices * @indices_offset: An offset into named indices. The offset marks the first * index to use for drawing. * @count: Specifies the number of vertices you want to draw. * * This function lets you use an array of indices to specify the vertices * within your vertex buffer that you want to draw. The indices themselves * are created by calling cogl_vertex_buffer_indices_new () * * Any un-submitted attribute changes are automatically submitted before * drawing. */ void cogl_vertex_buffer_draw_elements (CoglHandle handle, CoglVerticesMode mode, CoglHandle indices, int min_index, int max_index, int indices_offset, int count); #ifndef COGL_DISABLE_DEPRECATED /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_ref: * @handle: a @CoglHandle. * * Increment the reference count for a vertex buffer * * Return value: the @handle. * * Deprecated: 1.2: Use cogl_handle_ref() instead */ CoglHandle cogl_vertex_buffer_ref (CoglHandle handle) G_GNUC_DEPRECATED; /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_unref: * @handle: a @CoglHandle. * * Decrement the reference count for a vertex buffer * * Deprecated: 1.2: Use cogl_handle_unref() instead */ void cogl_vertex_buffer_unref (CoglHandle handle) G_GNUC_DEPRECATED; #endif /* COGL_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */ /** * cogl_vertex_buffer_indices_get_for_quads: * @n_indices: the number of indices in the vertex buffer. * * Creates a vertex buffer containing the indices needed to draw pairs * of triangles from a list of vertices grouped as quads. There will * be at least @n_indices entries in the buffer (but there may be * more). * * The indices will follow this pattern: * * 0, 1, 2, 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 4, 6, 7 ... etc * * For example, if you submit vertices for a quad like like that shown * in then you can request 6 * indices to render two triangles like those shown in . * *
* Example of vertices submitted to form a quad * *
* *
* Illustration of the triangle indices that will be generated * *
* * Returns: A %CoglHandle containing the indices. The handled is * owned by Cogl and should not be modified or unref'd. */ CoglHandle cogl_vertex_buffer_indices_get_for_quads (unsigned int n_indices); /** * cogl_is_vertex_buffer: * @handle: a #CoglHandle for a vertex buffer object * * Checks whether @handle is a Vertex Buffer Object * * Return value: %TRUE if the handle is a VBO, and %FALSE * otherwise * * Since: 1.0 */ gboolean cogl_is_vertex_buffer (CoglHandle handle); /** * cogl_is_vertex_buffer_indices: * @handle: a #CoglHandle * * Checks whether @handle is a handle to the indices for a vertex * buffer object * * Return value: %TRUE if the handle is indices, and %FALSE * otherwise * * Since: 1.4 */ gboolean cogl_is_vertex_buffer_indices (CoglHandle handle); G_END_DECLS #endif /* __COGL_VERTEX_BUFFER_H__ */