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3 Rasterizer
4 ==========
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6 The rasterizer state controls the rendering of points, lines and triangles.
7 Attributes include polygon culling state, line width, line stipple,
8 multisample state, scissoring and flat/smooth shading.
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10 Members
11 -------
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13 bypass_vs_clip_and_viewport
14 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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16 Whether the entire TCL pipeline should be bypassed. This implies that
17 vertices are pre-transformed for the viewport, and will not be run
18 through the vertex shader.
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20 .. note::
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22 Implementations may still clip away vertices that are not in the viewport
23 when this is set.
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25 flatshade
26 ^^^^^^^^^
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28 If set, the provoking vertex of each polygon is used to determine the color
29 of the entire polygon. If not set, fragment colors will be interpolated
30 between the vertex colors.
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32 The actual interpolated shading algorithm is obviously
33 implementation-dependent, but will usually be Gourard for most hardware.
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35 .. note::
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37 This is separate from the fragment shader input attributes
38 CONSTANT, LINEAR and PERSPECTIVE. The flatshade state is needed at
39 clipping time to determine how to set the color of new vertices.
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41 :ref:`Draw` can implement flat shading by copying the provoking vertex
42 color to all the other vertices in the primitive.
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44 flatshade_first
45 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
46
47 Whether the first vertex should be the provoking vertex, for most primitives.
48 If not set, the last vertex is the provoking vertex.
49
50 There are several important exceptions to the specification of this rule.
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52 * ``PIPE_PRIMITIVE_POLYGON``: The provoking vertex is always the first
53 vertex. If the caller wishes to change the provoking vertex, they merely
54 need to rotate the vertices themselves.
55 * ``PIPE_PRIMITIVE_QUAD``, ``PIPE_PRIMITIVE_QUAD_STRIP``: This option has no
56 effect; the provoking vertex is always the last vertex.
57 * ``PIPE_PRIMITIVE_TRIANGLE_FAN``: When set, the provoking vertex is the
58 second vertex, not the first. This permits each segment of the fan to have
59 a different color.
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61 Other Members
62 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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64 light_twoside
65 If set, there are per-vertex back-facing colors. :ref:`Draw`
66 uses this state along with the front/back information to set the
67 final vertex colors prior to rasterization.
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69 front_winding
70 Indicates the window order of front-facing polygons, either
71 PIPE_WINDING_CW or PIPE_WINDING_CCW
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73 cull_mode
74 Indicates which polygons to cull, either PIPE_WINDING_NONE (cull no
75 polygons), PIPE_WINDING_CW (cull clockwise-winding polygons),
76 PIPE_WINDING_CCW (cull counter clockwise-winding polygons), or
77 PIPE_WINDING_BOTH (cull all polygons).
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79 fill_cw
80 Indicates how to fill clockwise polygons, either PIPE_POLYGON_MODE_FILL,
81 PIPE_POLYGON_MODE_LINE or PIPE_POLYGON_MODE_POINT.
82 fill_ccw
83 Indicates how to fill counter clockwise polygons, either
84 PIPE_POLYGON_MODE_FILL, PIPE_POLYGON_MODE_LINE or PIPE_POLYGON_MODE_POINT.
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86 poly_stipple_enable
87 Whether polygon stippling is enabled.
88 poly_smooth
89 Controls OpenGL-style polygon smoothing/antialiasing
90 offset_cw
91 If set, clockwise polygons will have polygon offset factors applied
92 offset_ccw
93 If set, counter clockwise polygons will have polygon offset factors applied
94 offset_units
95 Specifies the polygon offset bias
96 offset_scale
97 Specifies the polygon offset scale
98
99 line_width
100 The width of lines.
101 line_smooth
102 Whether lines should be smoothed. Line smoothing is simply anti-aliasing.
103 line_stipple_enable
104 Whether line stippling is enabled.
105 line_stipple_pattern
106 16-bit bitfield of on/off flags, used to pattern the line stipple.
107 line_stipple_factor
108 When drawing a stippled line, each bit in the stipple pattern is
109 repeated N times, where N = line_stipple_factor + 1.
110 line_last_pixel
111 Controls whether the last pixel in a line is drawn or not. OpenGL
112 omits the last pixel to avoid double-drawing pixels at the ends of lines
113 when drawing connected lines.
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115 point_smooth
116 Whether points should be smoothed. Point smoothing turns rectangular
117 points into circles or ovals.
118 point_size_per_vertex
119 Whether vertices have a point size element.
120 point_size
121 The size of points, if not specified per-vertex.
122 sprite_coord_enable
123 Specifies if a coord has its texture coordinates replaced or not. This
124 is a packed bitfield containing the enable for all coords - if all are 0
125 point sprites are effectively disabled, though points may still be
126 rendered slightly different according to point_quad_rasterization.
127 If any coord is non-zero, point_smooth should be disabled, and
128 point_quad_rasterization enabled.
129 If enabled, the four vertices of the resulting quad will be assigned
130 texture coordinates, according to sprite_coord_mode.
131 sprite_coord_mode
132 Specifies how the value for each shader output should be computed when
133 drawing sprites, for each coord which has sprite_coord_enable set.
134 For PIPE_SPRITE_COORD_LOWER_LEFT, the lower left vertex will have
135 coordinate (0,0,0,1).
136 For PIPE_SPRITE_COORD_UPPER_LEFT, the upper-left vertex will have
137 coordinate (0,0,0,1).
138 This state is needed by :ref:`Draw` because that's where each
139 point vertex is converted into four quad vertices. There's no other
140 place to emit the new vertex texture coordinates which are required for
141 sprite rendering.
142 Note that when geometry shaders are available, this state could be
143 removed. A special geometry shader defined by the state tracker could
144 convert the incoming points into quads with the proper texture coords.
145 point_quad_rasterization
146 This determines if points should be rasterized as quads or points.
147 d3d always uses quad rasterization for points, regardless if point sprites
148 are enabled or not, but OGL has different rules. If point_quad_rasterization
149 is set, point_smooth should be disabled, and points will be rendered as
150 squares even if multisample is enabled.
151 sprite_coord_enable should be zero if point_quad_rasterization is not
152 enabled.
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154 scissor
155 Whether the scissor test is enabled.
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157 multisample
158 Whether :term:`MSAA` is enabled.
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160 gl_rasterization_rules
161 Whether the rasterizer should use (0.5, 0.5) pixel centers. When not set,
162 the rasterizer will use (0, 0) for pixel centers.
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