mesa/src/gallium/docs/source/cso/rasterizer.rst

.. _rasterizer:

Rasterizer
==========

The rasterizer state controls the rendering of points, lines and triangles.
Attributes include polygon culling state, line width, line stipple,
multisample state, scissoring and flat/smooth shading.


Members
-------

flatshade
    If set, the provoking vertex of each polygon is used to determine the
    color of the entire polygon.  If not set, fragment colors will be
    interpolated between the vertex colors.
    Note that this is separate from the fragment shader input attributes
    CONSTANT, LINEAR and PERSPECTIVE.  We need the flatshade state at
    clipping time to determine how to set the color of new vertices.
    Also note that the draw module can implement flat shading by copying
    the provoking vertex color to all the other vertices in the primitive.

flatshade_first
    Whether the first vertex should be the provoking vertex, for most
    primitives. If not set, the last vertex is the provoking vertex.

light_twoside
    If set, there are per-vertex back-facing colors.  The draw module
    uses this state along with the front/back information to set the
    final vertex colors prior to rasterization.

front_winding
    Indicates the window order of front-facing polygons, either
    PIPE_WINDING_CW or PIPE_WINDING_CCW
cull_mode
    Indicates which polygons to cull, either PIPE_WINDING_NONE (cull no
    polygons), PIPE_WINDING_CW (cull clockwise-winding polygons),
    PIPE_WINDING_CCW (cull counter clockwise-winding polygons), or
    PIPE_WINDING_BOTH (cull all polygons).

fill_cw
    Indicates how to fill clockwise polygons, either PIPE_POLYGON_MODE_FILL,
    PIPE_POLYGON_MODE_LINE or PIPE_POLYGON_MODE_POINT.
fill_ccw
    Indicates how to fill counter clockwise polygons, either
    PIPE_POLYGON_MODE_FILL, PIPE_POLYGON_MODE_LINE or PIPE_POLYGON_MODE_POINT.

poly_stipple_enable
    Whether polygon stippling is enabled.
poly_smooth
    Controls OpenGL-style polygon smoothing/antialiasing
offset_cw
    If set, clockwise polygons will have polygon offset factors applied
offset_ccw
    If set, counter clockwise polygons will have polygon offset factors applied
offset_units
    Specifies the polygon offset bias
offset_scale
    Specifies the polygon offset scale

line_width
    The width of lines.
line_smooth
    Whether lines should be smoothed. Line smoothing is simply anti-aliasing.
line_stipple_enable
    Whether line stippling is enabled.
line_stipple_pattern
    16-bit bitfield of on/off flags, used to pattern the line stipple.
line_stipple_factor
    When drawinga stippled line, each bit in the stipple pattern is
    repeated N times, where N = line_stipple_factor + 1.
line_last_pixel
    Controls whether the last pixel in a line is drawn or not.  OpenGL
    omits the last pixel to avoid double-drawing pixels at the ends of lines
    when drawing connected lines.

point_smooth
    Whether points should be smoothed. Point smoothing turns rectangular
    points into circles or ovals.
point_size_per_vertex
    Whether vertices have a point size element.
point_size
    The size of points, if not specified per-vertex.
point_size_min
    The minimum size of points.
point_size_max
    The maximum size of points.
point_sprite
    Whether points are drawn as sprites (textured quads)
sprite_coord_mode
    Specifies how the value for each shader output should be computed when
    drawing sprites.  If PIPE_SPRITE_COORD_NONE, don't change the vertex
    shader output.  Otherwise, the four vertices of the resulting quad will
    be assigned texture coordinates.  For PIPE_SPRITE_COORD_LOWER_LEFT, the
    lower left vertex will have coordinate (0,0,0,1).
    For PIPE_SPRITE_COORD_UPPER_LEFT, the upper-left vertex will have
    coordinate (0,0,0,1).
    This state is needed by the 'draw' module because that's where each
    point vertex is converted into four quad vertices.  There's no other
    place to emit the new vertex texture coordinates which are required for
    sprite rendering.
    Note that when geometry shaders are available, this state could be
    removed.  A special geometry shader defined by the state tracker could
    converts the incoming points into quads with the proper texture coords.

scissor
    Whether the scissor test is enabled.

multisample
    Whether :term:`MSAA` is enabled.

bypass_vs_clip_and_viewport
    Whether the entire TCL pipeline should be bypassed. This implies that
    vertices are pre-transformed for the viewport, and will not be run
    through the vertex shader. Note that implementations may still clip away
    vertices that are not in the viewport.

gl_rasterization_rules
    Whether the rasterizer should use (0.5, 0.5) pixel centers. When not set,
    the rasterizer will use (0, 0) for pixel centers.


Notes
-----

flatshade
^^^^^^^^^

The actual interpolated shading algorithm is obviously
implementation-dependent, but will usually be Gourard for most hardware.

bypass_vs_clip_and_viewport
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

When set, this implies that vertices are pre-transformed for the viewport, and
will not be run through the vertex shader. Note that implementations may still
clip away vertices that are not visible.

flatshade_first
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

There are several important exceptions to the specification of this rule.

* ``PIPE_PRIMITIVE_POLYGON``: The provoking vertex is always the first
  vertex. If the caller wishes to change the provoking vertex, they merely
  need to rotate the vertices themselves.
* ``PIPE_PRIMITIVE_QUAD``, ``PIPE_PRIMITIVE_QUAD_STRIP``: This option has no
  effect; the provoking vertex is always the last vertex.
* ``PIPE_PRIMITIVE_TRIANGLE_FAN``: When set, the provoking vertex is the
  second vertex, not the first. This permits each segment of the fan to have
  a different color.