GLPAUSETRANSFORMFEED(3G)

💅 GLPAUSETRANSFORMFEED(3G) — or, how to put your transform feedback on pause

okay so bestie, welcome to GLPAUSETRANSFORMFEED(3G), the 3G manual page, and honestly? the name is a whole mouthful but the vibe is simple: we're hitting pause on transform feedback. that's it. that's the post. ✨

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🌸 NAME

glPauseTransformFeedback — pause transform feedback operations 🎀

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✨ C SPECIFICATION

void glPauseTransformFeedback(void);

no args, no return value, no drama. she takes nothing and gives you a pause. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION

so glPauseTransformFeedback pauses transform feedback operations on the currently active transform feedback object. key word: currently active. like, the one that's already the main character rn. 👑

when transform feedback operations are paused, here's the tea: transform feedback is still considered active, okay? it's not gone, it's just resting. 😴 and because it's still active, changing most transform feedback state related to the object? yeah that results in an error. not me changing state while paused and getting yelled at 🙈 — don't do it.

but here's the slay bit: a new transform feedback object may be bound while transform feedback is paused. so you can bring a whole new object on stage while the old one's on break. iconic behaviour honestly. 🌈

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💀 ERRORS

• GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if the currently bound transform feedback object is not active or is paused.

so yeah — if it's not active, or if it's already paused (like, girl you're already on break 😭), you get GL_INVALID_OPERATION. no cap.

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👑 VERSION SUPPORT

here's the vibe check on which OpenGL versions support glPauseTransformFeedback — the columns in the original ran from OpenGL 2.0 all the way to 4.5, and our girl's row goes like this:

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

so it's giving strictly 4.0 and up, bestie. before that? not invited to the party. 🎀

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🫶 SEE ALSO

the whole friend group, fr fr:

• glGenTransformFeedbacks()
• glBindTransformFeedback()
• glBeginTransformFeedback()
• glResumeTransformFeedback()
• glEndTransformFeedback
• glDeleteTransformFeedbacks()

iykyk 🧚

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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/.

Copyright © 2010-2014 Khronos Group

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and that's the page, bestie!! 🍓 this whole thing came from [FIXME: source], dated 08/09/2021, and yes it still says GLPAUSETRANSFORMFEED(3G) at the bottom too — consistency queen. mwah 💜✨