GLDELETESAMPLERS(3G)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so this is glDeleteSamplers from the 3G manual section — the one that deletes named sampler objects, and honestly? It's giving cleanup-era main character energy 💅✨

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✨ C SPECIFICATION ✨

bestie, here's the exact signature, don't touch it:

void glDeleteSamplers(GLsizei n, const GLuint * samplers);

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🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• n — the number of sampler objects you're yeeting out of existence. like, how many.
• samplers — an array of the sampler objects getting deleted. the whole squad.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So glDeleteSamplers deletes n sampler objects named by the elements of the array samplers. That's it, that's the job 🫶

After a sampler object is deleted, its name is again unused — so it goes back into the name pool, fresh start, rebrand era 🌈

If a sampler object that is currently bound to a sampler unit gets deleted, it's as though glBindSampler() is called with unit set to the unit the sampler is bound to and sampler zero. so like, the unit auto-unbinds itself, no drama 💀

Unused names in samplers are silently ignored, as is the reserved name zero. no error, no callout, they just get skipped. we love a chill function 🙈

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👑 NOTES 👑

glDeleteSamplers is available only if the GL version is 3.3 or higher. periodt.

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💀 ERRORS 💀

• GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if n is negative. so like, don't do that 😭

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🔥 ASSOCIATED GETS 🔥

• glIsSampler()

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🦋 VERSION SUPPORT 🦋

Okay so the chart in the original is this whole grid, and I'm not doing a table here, so let me just spill the tea plainly. The function/feature name in the row is glDeleteSamplers, and across the OpenGL versions it looks like this:

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

(the column headers in the original are literally just "OpenGL Version" and then each version number, and the row label is the function / feature name. iykyk ✨)

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🌺 SEE ALSO 🌺

• glGenSamplers()
• glBindSampler()
• glDeleteSamplers()
• glIsSampler()

(yes, glDeleteSamplers() is listed in its own SEE ALSO. iconic self-reference behavior, we keep it exactly as-is 💅)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 2010-2014 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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💜 COPYRIGHT (yes, again 💜)

Copyright © 2010-2014 Khronos Group

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and that's the whole page bestie 🫶 mwah 💖 — this little love letter came from [FIXME: source] and it's dated 08/09/2021, so go forth and delete those samplers responsibly, no cap ⭐🎀🧚