GL_GLOBALINVOCATIONI(3G)

NAME
gl_GlobalInvocationID - contains the global index of work item currently being operated on by a compute shader

DECLARATION
in uvec3 gl_GlobalInvocationID ;.SH "DESCRIPTION"

In the compute language, gl_GlobalInvocationID is a derived input variable containing the n-dimensional index of the work invocation within the global work group that the current shader is executing on. The value of gl_GlobalInvocationID is equal to gl_WorkGroupID * gl_WorkGroupSize + gl_LocalInvocationID.

VERSION SUPPORT
 | OpenGL Shading Language Version
Variable Name | 1.10 | 1.20 | 1.30 | 1.40 | 1.50 | 3.30 | 4.00 | 4.10 | 4.20 | 4.30 | 4.40 | 4.50
gl_GlobalInvocationID | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔

SEE ALSO

gl_NumWorkGroups(), gl_WorkGroupID(), gl_WorkGroupSize(), gl_LocalInvocationID()

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