GLGENBUFFERS(3G)

💖 GLGENBUFFERS — generate buffer object names 💖

okay so bestie, this is the GLGENBUFFERS(3G) page — manual name 3G — and it is literally about generating buffer object names. that's the whole main character energy. 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

glGenBuffers — generate buffer object names. yes, that's it, that's the name. slay. ✨

🧚 C SPECIFICATION 🧚

void glGenBuffers(GLsizei n, GLuint * buffers);

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• n — specifies the number of buffer object names to be generated.
• buffers — specifies an array in which the generated buffer object names are stored.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

glGenBuffers returns n buffer object names in buffers. and listen, bestie: there is no guarantee that the names form a contiguous set of integers. however — and this is the important part — it is guaranteed that none of the returned names was in use immediately before the call to glGenBuffers. periodt. 💅

Buffer object names returned by a call to glGenBuffers are not returned by subsequent calls, unless they are first deleted with glDeleteBuffers(). that's the rule, no cap. 🫶

No buffer objects are associated with the returned buffer object names until they are first bound by calling glBindBuffer(). so the name is just a name until that first bind, iykyk. 🌈

💀 ERRORS 💀

GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if n is negative. that's the error condition, fr fr. ⚠️

🔥 ASSOCIATED GETS 🔥

glIsBuffer() — the associated get, aka the buffer-name vibe check. 👑

⭐ VERSION SUPPORT ⭐

version support check for the function/feature name glGenBuffers, because we love a compatibility slay. it's ✔ in every listed OpenGL version:

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

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

glBindBuffer(), glDeleteBuffers(), glGet() — go read those too, bestie. 🎀

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2005 Addison-Wesley. 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/.

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2005 Sams Publishing Copyright © 2010-2014 Khronos Group

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