glHint(3G) OpenGL Reference glHint(3G)
NAME
glHint - specify implementation-specific hints
C SPECIFICATION
void glHint( GLenum target,
GLenum mode )
PARAMETERS
target Specifies a symbolic constant indicating the behavior to be
controlled. GLFOGHINT, GLLINESMOOTHHINT,
GLPERSPECTIVECORRECTIONHINT, GLPOINTSMOOTHHINT, and
GLPOLYGONSMOOTHHINT are accepted.
mode Specifies a symbolic constant indicating the desired behavior.
GLFASTEST, GLNICEST, and GLDONTCARE are accepted.
DESCRIPTION
Certain aspects of GL behavior, when there is room for interpretation,
can be controlled with hints. A hint is specified with two arguments.
target is a symbolic constant indicating the behavior to be controlled,
and mode is another symbolic constant indicating the desired behavior.
mode can be one of the following:
GLFASTEST The most efficient option should be chosen.
GLNICEST The most correct, or highest quality, option should
be chosen.
GLDONTCARE The client doesn't have a preference.
Though the implementation aspects that can be hinted are well defined,
the interpretation of the hints depends on the implementation. The hint
aspects that can be specified with target, along with suggested
semantics, are as follows:
GLFOGHINT Indicates the accuracy of fog calculation. If per-
pixel fog calculation is not efficiently supported by
the GL implementation, hinting GLDONTCARE or
GLFASTEST can result in per-vertex calculation of
fog effects.
GLLINESMOOTHHINT Indicates the sampling quality of antialiased lines.
If a larger filter function is applied, hinting
GLNICEST can result in more pixel fragments being
generated during rasterization.
GLPERSPECTIVECORRECTIONHINT
Indicates the quality of color and texture coordinate
interpolation. If perspective-corrected parameter
interpolation is not efficiently supported by the GL
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implementation, hinting GLDONTCARE or GLFASTEST
can result in simple linear interpolation of colors
and/or texture coordinates.
GLPOINTSMOOTHHINT
Indicates the sampling quality of antialiased points.
If a larger filter function is applied, hinting
GLNICEST can result in more pixel fragments being
generated during rasterization.
GLPOLYGONSMOOTHHINT
Indicates the sampling quality of antialiased
polygons. Hinting GLNICEST can result in more pixel
fragments being generated during rasterization, if a
larger filter function is applied.
NOTES
The interpretation of hints depends on the implementation. Some
implementations ignore glHint settings.
ERRORS
GLINVALIDENUM is generated if either target or mode is not an accepted
value.
GLINVALIDOPERATION is generated if glHint is executed between the
execution of glBegin and the corresponding execution of glEnd.
MACHINE DEPENDENCIES
InfiniteReality systems do not support antialiased lines in color-index
rendering contexts. (They are rendered as ordinary lines instead.)
On InfiniteReality systems, the GLPOINTSMOOTHHINT hint target
indicates the sampling quality of multisampled points as well as
antialiased points. When multisampling is enabled, and the derived point
size is less than 4.0, hinting GLNICEST yields location-invariant
points. In this case the number of samples for a given point is
determined solely by the derived point size.
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