VertexElementFormat Enumeration

Defines vertex element formats.

Namespace: Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics
Assembly: Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics (in microsoft.xna.framework.graphics.dll)

Syntax

public enum VertexElementFormat

Members

	Member name	Description
	Single	Single-component, 32-bit floating-point, expanded to (float, 0, 0, 1).
	Vector2	Two-component, 32-bit floating-point, expanded to (float, Float32 value, 0, 1).
	Vector3	Three-component, 32-bit floating point, expanded to (float, float, float, 1).
	Vector4	Four-component, 32-bit floating point, expanded to (float, float, float, float).
	HalfVector2	Two-component, 16-bit floating point expanded to (value, value, value, value). This type is valid for vertex shader version 2.0 or higher.
	HalfVector4	Four-component, 16-bit floating-point expanded to (value, value, value, value). This type is valid for vertex shader version 2.0 or higher.
	Color	Four-component, packed, unsigned byte, mapped to 0 to 1 range. Input is in Int32 format (ARGB) expanded to (R, G, B, A).
	NormalizedShort2	Normalized, two-component, signed short, expanded to (first short/32767.0, second short/32767.0, 0, 1). This type is valid for vertex shader version 2.0 or higher.
	NormalizedShort4	Normalized, four-component, signed short, expanded to (first short/32767.0, second short/32767.0, third short/32767.0, fourth short/32767.0). This type is valid for vertex shader version 2.0 or higher.
	Short2	Two-component, signed short expanded to (value, value, 0, 1).
	Short4	Four-component, signed short expanded to (value, value, value, value).
	Byte4	Four-component, unsigned byte.

Remarks

A mapping of each Direct3D 9 format name to the VertexElementFormat equivalent is listed in the following table.

	Direct3D 9 Vertex Format	VertexElementFormat equivalent
Floating Point
Float32	D3DDECLTYPE_FLOAT1	Single
	D3DDECLTYPE_FLOAT2	Vector2
	D3DDECLTYPE_FLOAT3	Vector3
	D3DDECLTYPE_FLOAT4	Vector4
Float16	D3DDECLTYPE_FLOAT16_2	HalfVector2
	D3DDECLTYPE_FLOAT16_4	HalfVector4
Unsigned Normalized
64 bpp	D3DDECLTYPE_USHORT4N	Rgba64
32 bpp	D3DDECLTYPE_D3DCOLOR	Color
	D3DDECLTYPE_UBYTE4N	Rgba32
	D3DDECLTYPE_USHORT2N	Rg32
Signed Normalized
	D3DDECLTYPE_SHORT2N	NormalizedShort2
	D3DDECLTYPE_SHORT4N	NormalizedShort4
	D3DDECLTYPE_DEC3N	Normalized101010
Signed Integer
	D3DDECLTYPE_SHORT2	Short2
	D3DDECLTYPE_SHORT4	Short4
Unsigned Integer
	D3DDECLTYPE_UBYTE4	Byte4
	D3DDECLTYPE_UDEC3	UInt101010

See Also

Reference

VertexElement.VertexElementFormat Property
Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics Namespace

Platforms

Xbox 360, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP