WebGL as a state machine: buffer manipulation

There is some information about the state of the rendering pipeline that we can retrieve when we are dealing with buffers with the functions: getParameter, getBufferParameter, and isBuffer.

Just like we did in the previous chapter, we will use getParameter(parameter) where parameter can have the following values:

  • ARRAY_BUFFER_BINDING: It retrieves a reference to the currently-bound VBO
  • ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER_BINDING: It retrieves a reference to the currently-bound IBO

Also, we can enquire about the size and the usage of the currently-bound VBO and IBO using getBufferParameter(type, parameter) where type can have the following values:

  • ARRAY_BUFFER: To refer to the currently bound VBO
  • ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER ...

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