Name

gl_WorkGroupID — contains the index of the workgroup currently being operated on by a compute shader

Declaration

in uvec3 gl_WorkGroupID

Description

In the compute language, gl_WorkGroupID contains the 3-dimensional index of the global work group that the current compute shader invocation is executing within. The possible values range across the parameters passed into glDispatchCompute, i.e., from (0, 0, 0) to (gl_NumWorkGroups.x - 1, gl_NumWorkGroups.y - 1, gl_NumWorkGroups.z - 1).

Version Support

VariableVersion 1.10Version 1.20Version 1.30Version 1.40Version 1.50Version 3.30Version 4.00Version 4.10Version 4.20Version 4.30
gl_WorkGroupID---------Y

See Also

gl_NumWorkGroups, gl_WorkGroupID, gl_LocalInvocationID

Copyright

Copyright © 2011-2012 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/.