glRenderbufferStorage - OpenGL 4 Reference Pages

## Name

glRenderbufferStorage, glNamedRenderbufferStorage — establish data storage, format and dimensions of a renderbuffer object's image

## C Specification

`void glRenderbufferStorage(` | GLenum target,
| GLenum internalformat,
| GLsizei width,
| GLsizei height`)`;

`void glNamedRenderbufferStorage(` | GLuint renderbuffer,
| GLenum internalformat,
| GLsizei width,
| GLsizei height`)`;

## Parameters

`target`

  Specifies a binding target of the allocation for `glRenderbufferStorage` function. Must be `GL_RENDERBUFFER`.

`renderbuffer`

  Specifies the name of the renderbuffer object for `glNamedRenderbufferStorage` function.

`internalformat`

  Specifies the internal format to use for the renderbuffer object's image.

`width`

  Specifies the width of the renderbuffer, in pixels.

`height`

  Specifies the height of the renderbuffer, in pixels.

## Description

`glRenderbufferStorage` is equivalent to calling glRenderbufferStorageMultisample with the `samples` set to zero, and `glNamedRenderbufferStorage` is equivalent to calling `glNamedRenderbufferStorageMultisample` with the samples set to zero.

For `glRenderbufferStorage`, the target of the operation, specified by `target` must be `GL_RENDERBUFFER`. For `glNamedRenderbufferStorage`, `renderbuffer` must be a name of an existing renderbuffer object. `internalformat` specifies the internal format to be used for the renderbuffer object's storage and must be a color-renderable, depth-renderable, or stencil-renderable format. `width` and `height` are the dimensions, in pixels, of the renderbuffer. Both `width` and `height` must be less than or equal to the value of `GL_MAX_RENDERBUFFER_SIZE`.

Upon success, `glRenderbufferStorage` and `glNamedRenderbufferStorage` delete any existing data store for the renderbuffer image and the contents of the data store after calling `glRenderbufferStorage` are undefined.

## Errors

`GL_INVALID_ENUM` is generated by `glRenderbufferStorage` if `target` is not `GL_RENDERBUFFER`.

`GL_INVALID_OPERATION` is generated by glNamedRenderbufferStorage if `renderbuffer` is not the name of an existing renderbuffer object.

`GL_INVALID_VALUE` is generated if either of `width` or `height` is negative, or greater than the value of `GL_MAX_RENDERBUFFER_SIZE`.

`GL_INVALID_ENUM` is generated if `internalformat` is not a color-renderable, depth-renderable, or stencil-renderable format.

`GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY` is generated if the GL is unable to create a data store of the requested size.

## Version Support

| OpenGL Version
--- | ---
Function / Feature Name | 2.0 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5
`glNamedRenderbufferStorage` | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✔
`glRenderbufferStorage` | - | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔

## See Also

glGenRenderbuffers, glBindRenderbuffer, `glNamedRenderbufferStorageMultisample`, glRenderbufferStorageMultisample, glFramebufferRenderbuffer, glDeleteRenderbuffers

## Copyright

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