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[nonsenseinc]

Greetings,

after reading several OpenGL documentations I understand that glVertexAttribPointer takes a numeral value between 1 and 4 for its second parameter (size) as information how many vertices are taken into consideration to render a single triangle. But I do not understand how to use other then three vertices for a triangle. Also trying different values and seeing the result doesn't help me.
What exactly does this do and what is it used for?

Cheers,
Jan

[Hodgman]

It's the number of components that make up the attribute (e.g. x, y and z is 3 components).

e.g. if size is 3, and type is GL_FLOAT, then the corresponding C/C++ type is float[3] and the GLSL type is vec3.

[TheChubu]

For example, you might have an attribute with 2 as size for texture coords, or a size of 4 if you need x,y,z,w coords (which you will eventually). Moreover, it doesn't needs to be juts coordinates, you could store color in with 4 components in RGBA form (red, green, blue, alpha).

You can additional information besides the position of a vertex.

Edited by TheChubu, 18 November 2012 - 01:23 PM.