GLCREATESAMPLERS(3G)

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okay so bestie, welcome to GLCREATESAMPLERS(3G) — the 3G manual page that is literally about creating sampler objects ✨ no cap, it's short and iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

glCreateSamplers — create sampler objects 🎀

💻 C SPECIFICATION 💻

void glCreateSamplers(GLsizei n, GLuint *samplers);

🫶 PARAMETERS 🫶

  • n — Number of sampler objects to create.
  • samplers — Specifies an array in which names of the new sampler objects are stored.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea: glCreateSamplers returns n previously unused sampler names in samplers, and each one represents a new sampler object initialized to the default state. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💅

💀 ERRORS 💀

GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if n is negative. yes, negative n is not the move bestie 😭

🌈 VERSION SUPPORT 🌈

The original table is giving Function / Feature Name vs. OpenGL Version, and for glCreateSamplers the version vibe check is:

  • 2.0 — -
  • 2.1 — -
  • 3.0 — -
  • 3.1 — -
  • 3.2 — -
  • 3.3 — -
  • 4.0 — -
  • 4.1 — -
  • 4.2 — -
  • 4.3 — -
  • 4.4 — -
  • 4.5 — ✔

So yeah, 4.5 is the only one with the checkmark here 👑.

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

  • glBindSampler()
  • glBindTexture()
  • glDeleteSamplers()
  • glDeleteTextures()
  • glGenSamplers()
  • glGenTextures()
  • glGet()
  • glGetSamplerParameter()
  • glSamplerParameter()

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜 (again, because the page says it twice)

Copyright © 2014 Khronos Group

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