WebGL2RenderingContext: vertexAttribIPointer() method

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The WebGL2RenderingContext.vertexAttribIPointer() method of the WebGL 2 API specifies integer data formats and locations of vertex attributes in a vertex attributes array.

Syntax

vertexAttribIPointer(index, size, type, stride, offset)

Parameters

• index
  • : A {{domxref("WebGL_API/Types", "GLuint")}} specifying the index of the vertex attribute that is to be modified.
• size
  • : A {{domxref("WebGL_API/Types", "GLint")}} specifying the number of components per vertex attribute. Must be 1, 2, 3, or 4.
• type
  • : A {{domxref("WebGL_API/Types", "GLenum")}} specifying the data type of each component in the array. Must be one of: gl.BYTE, gl.UNSIGNED_BYTE, gl.SHORT, gl.UNSIGNED_SHORT, gl.INT, or gl.UNSIGNED_INT.
• stride
  • : A {{domxref("WebGL_API/Types", "GLsizei")}} specifying the offset in bytes between the beginning of consecutive vertex attributes.
• offset
  • : A {{domxref("WebGL_API/Types", "GLintptr")}} specifying an offset in bytes of the first component in the vertex attribute array. Must be a multiple of type.

Return value

None ({{jsxref("undefined")}}).

Description

Very similar to {{domxref("WebGLRenderingContext.vertexAttribPointer()")}}. The main difference is that while values specified by vertexAttribPointer are always interpreted as floating-point values in the shader (even if they were originally specified as integers in the buffer), this method allows specifying values which are interpreted as integers in the shader.

Examples

Linear Blend Skinning

// Describe the layout of the buffer:
// 1. position
gl.vertexAttribPointer(0, 3, gl.FLOAT, false, 20, 0);
gl.enableVertexAttribArray(0);
// 2. bone weights, normalized to [0, 1]
gl.vertexAttribPointer(1, 4, gl.UNSIGNED_BYTE, true, 20, 12);
gl.enableVertexAttribArray(1);
// 3. bone indices, interpreted as integer
gl.vertexAttribIPointer(2, 4, gl.UNSIGNED_BYTE, 20, 16);
gl.enableVertexAttribArray(2);

// Connect to attributes from the vertex shader
gl.bindAttribLocation(shaderProgram, 0, "position");
gl.bindAttribLocation(shaderProgram, 1, "boneWeights");
gl.bindAttribLocation(shaderProgram, 2, "boneIndices");

<script id="shader-vs" type="x-shader/x-vertex">
  #version 300 es

  uniform mat4 mvMatrix;
  uniform mat4 bones[120];

  in vec3 position;
  in vec4 boneWeights;
  in uvec4 boneIndices;//read as 4-component unsigned integer

  void main() {
      vec4 skinnedPosition =
          bones[boneIndices.s] * vec4(position, 1.0) * boneWeights.s +
          bones[boneIndices.t] * vec4(position, 1.0) * boneWeights.t +
          bones[boneIndices.p] * vec4(position, 1.0) * boneWeights.p +
          bones[boneIndices.q] * vec4(position, 1.0) * boneWeights.q;
      gl_Position = mvMatrix * skinnedPosition;
  }
</script>

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• {{domxref("WebGLRenderingContext.vertexAttribPointer()")}}