Name

gl_PatchVerticesIn — contains the number of vertices in the current patch

Declaration

in int gl_PatchVerticesIn;

Description

Available only in the tessellation control and evaluation languages, gl_PatchVerticesIn contains the number of vertices in the input being processed by the shader. A single tessellation control or evaluation shader can read patches of differing sizes, and so th value of gl_PatchVertexIn may differ between patches.

Version Support

VariableVersion 1.10Version 1.20Version 1.30Version 1.40Version 1.50Version 3.30Version 4.00Version 4.10Version 4.20Version 4.30
gl_PatchVerticesIn------YYYY

See Also

gl_TessLevelOuter, gl_TessLevelInner, gl_TessCoord

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 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/.