Gl.FrontFace (gb.opengl)
Static Sub FrontFace ( Mode As Integer )
Define front- and back-facing polygons.
Parameters
- mode
-
Specifies the orientation of front-facing polygons.
Gl.CW and Gl.CCW are accepted.
The initial value is Gl.CCW.
Description
In a scene composed entirely of opaque closed surfaces,
back-facing polygons are never visible.
Eliminating these invisible polygons has the obvious benefit
of speeding up the rendering of the image.
To enable and disable elimination of back-facing polygons, call Gl.Enable
and Gl.Disable with argument Gl.CULL_FACE.
The projection of a polygon to window coordinates is said to have
clockwise winding if an imaginary object following the path
from its first vertex,
its second vertex,
and so on,
to its last vertex,
and finally back to its first vertex,
moves in a clockwise direction about the interior of the polygon.
The polygon's winding is said to be counterclockwise if the imaginary
object following the same path moves in a counterclockwise direction
about the interior of the polygon.
Gl.FrontFace specifies whether polygons with clockwise winding in window coordinates,
or counterclockwise winding in window coordinates,
are taken to be front-facing.
Passing
Gl.CCW to
mode selects counterclockwise polygons as
front-facing;
Gl.CW selects clockwise polygons as front-facing.
By default, counterclockwise polygons are taken to be front-facing.
Errors
Gl.INVALID_ENUM is generated if
mode is not an accepted value.
Associated Gets
Gl.Get with argument Gl.FRONT_FACE
See also
See original documentation on OpenGL website